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.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 9:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Maryalice Hartley
Endoplasmic reticulum calcium in lipid regulation and insulin secretion
R4 101
Chair: Carmella Evans-Molina, Ph.D., 317-274-8157
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology
Sephora Jean
Defining adipose tissue microenvironment and adipocyte-specific roles of STAT3 and NF-κB /RELA in fat wasting in pancreatic cancer cachexi
Virtual
Chair: Joshua R. Huot, Ph.D., 317-278-4950
Tuesday, July 28, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Biostatistics
Ziyan Song
Data-driven discovery of Alzheimer’s Disease subtypes and progression trajectories
HITS 1110
Chair: Kun Huang, Ph.D., 317-278-7722
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
IU School of Education
Urban Education Studies
Kelsey Lynn Tiller
At a crossroads of care: Teaching and mothering as interwoven roles
TBA
Chair: Brendan Maxcy, Ph.D., 317-274-6801
Thursday, July 30, 12:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
Afrin Sultana Chowdhury
Transcriptional and immunomodulatory effects of the next-generation RXR agonist V-125 in HER2-positive breast cancer
R3 C203
Chair: Elizabeth S. Yeh, Ph.D., 317-274-7828
Friday, August 7, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
Regan Cristene Hines
Differential effects of neuropathic and inflammatory pain on molecularly distinct neurons of the central amygdala and their modulation by sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 signaling
MS 326
Chair: Patrick L. Sheets, Ph.D., 317-278-6383
Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical Neuroscience
Enrique Chimal Juarez
Microenvironmental heterogeneity and tau as a therapeutic alternative in Alzheimer’s disease with cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Virtual
Chair: Adrian Oblak, Ph.D., 724-787-2015
Friday, August 21, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology
Pontian Erhagbe Adogamhe
Investigating the role Of endothelial cell NAMPT in the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension
R3 C2303
Chair: David Basile, Ph.D., 317-278-1565
Friday, August 21, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Thomas Michael Starks
Exploring conversation-enabled wearables to support heart disease patient symptom tracking
IT 407
Chair: Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Ph.D., 317-278-7686
Friday, August 28, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Nursing
Nursing Science
Rileigh M Fagan
Exploring the symptom and disease experience in adolescents with conservatively managed chronic kidney disease stages I-V
Virtual
Chair: Janet S. Carpenter, Ph.D., 317-278-6065
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