At 11 am on April 12, 2023, our grad student Kevin J. Hendargo will defend his master's thesis entitled "Detection of Sequence Similarity Among Structural Repeats in the Piezo Family of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels." The room and zoom link will be provided before the defense.

At 4 pm on April 20, 2023, our grad student Harry Zhou will defend his master's thesis entitled "Characterizing the fucAO promoter and elucidating the transcriptional mechanism behind IS5-driven activation of the fucAO operon." The zoom link will be provided before the defense.