Upcoming Announcements
This list of scheduled Ph.D. dissertation defenses is posted so that faculty and others may attend the defense. If you wish to attend, please contact the committee chair in advance as a courtesy.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Biostatistics
Xiaochen Li
Subgroup Identification in Clinical Trials
HS 1110
Chair: Sujuan Gao, Ph.D., 317-319-1555
Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
Lincoln James Barlow
FASN Negatively Regulates NF-kB/p65 Expression in Breast Cancer Cells by Disrupting its Stability
EH 304/404
Co-chairs: Tao Lu, Ph.D., 317-278-0520; Jian-Ting Zhang, Ph.D., 419-383-4131
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
JoAnne Jean Babula
The Use of Protein Dynamics in the Study of Protein Conformational Transition and Functionality and its Relevance in Drug Design
R3 C203
Chair: Nickolay Brustovetsky, Ph.D., 317-278-9229
Friday, November 1, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
IU School of Liberal Arts
Economics
Wondimu S Manalew
A Switching Regressions Framework for Models with Count-Valued Omni-Dispersed Outcomes: Specification, Estimation and Causal Inference
CA 537
Chair: Joseph Terza, Ph.D., 317-274-4747
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology
Safa Fatima Mohamad
The Role of Osteomacs in Regulating Stem Cell Function and the Hematopoietic Niche
R3 203
Chair: Edward F. Srour, Ph.D., 317-274-0343
Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Biostatistics
Jing Li
Nonparametric Analysis of Semi-Competing Risks Data
HS 1110
Co-chairs: Giorgos Bakoyannis, Ph.D., 317-278-5457; Ying Zhang, Ph.D., 402-836-9380
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Health and Human Sciences
Health and Rehabilitation Science
Max Weitlandt Adolphs
The Validity and Reliability of the PAVS and IPAQ-SF as Physical Activity Assessment Tools in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
ES 1114
Chair: Anthony Kaleth, Ph.D., 317-278-8439
Friday, November 22, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
IU School of Informatics and Computing
Informatics
Bobak David Kechavarzi
Developing Bottom-Up, Integrated Omics Methodologies for Big Data Biomarker Discovery
IT 395
Chair: Huanmei Wu, Ph.D., 317-278-1692
Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Epidemiology
Natalie Ann DiPietro Mager
Preconception and Interconception Health and Routine Health Service Use Among Women in a Rural Midwestern Community
RG 6040
Chair: Brian Dixon, Ph.D., 317-278-3072