SUNY Upstate Medical University | College of Graduate Studies
Candidates for Degrees 2021 As the names of graduates and honor designations must be compiled in advance of Commencement, this listing is not official and is subject to revision as may be mandated by satisfaction of degree requirements and academic grades. Degree honors are not yet finalized. Students who are receiving degree honors will be notified later.
Master of Science — College of Graduate Studies Listing indicates candidate’s name, thesis sponsor, degree-granting program at Upstate Medical University and title of thesis.
Yazheng Wang
Pharmacology Hong Lu Liver-specific Glucorticoid Action in Alcoholic Liver Disease
Doctor of Philosophy — College of Graduate Studies Listing indicates candidate’s name, dissertation sponsor, degree-granting program at Upstate Medical University and title of dissertation.
Alexander John Baker-Williams Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dimitra Bourboulia Identification of TIMP2 as the First Secretory Co-Chaperone of eHSP90
Anna Miriam John
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Stewart Loh Design and Characterization of a Color-changing Fluorescent Protein Biosensor
Mei Yun Lin
Anatomy and Cell Biology Jason Horton Preclinical Evaluation of Mithramycin A for Targeted Radiosensitization of Ewing Sarcoma
Krista Lorraine Newell
Microbiology and Immunology Gary Winslow Memory and effector B cell responses to viral and intracellular bacterial infection
Hannah Lee Phillips
Neuroscience Wei-Dong Yao Neurophysiological and behavioral analysis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia in mouse models
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Rachel Erin Harter Sager
Curtis Victor Yingling
Peu Santra
Alexis Starr Zajicek
Neuroscience Cynthia Weickert Charting neurotypical change in complement and cytokine levels across postnatal human cortical development Anatomy and Cell Biology Jeffrey Amack Genetic analysis of Vacuolar type H+-ATPase function in mechanosensory hair cells
Sumana Sundaramurthy
Anatomy and Cell Biology David Pruyne Investigating how FHOD-family formin promotes Z-line organization and striation formation in c. elegans striated muscles
Xin Wang
Pharmacology Ying Huang Monoglyceride Lipase Regulation of Cell Death and Inflammation in Cancer
Mark Robert Woodford
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mehdi Mollapour The Tumor Suppressor Folliculin Regulates Glycolysis by Specific Inhibition of LDHA
Anatomy and Cell Biology David Pruyne Investigating the roles of the C. elegans formin FHOD-1 in muscle gene expression and actin assembly Neuroscience Wei-Dong Yao Molecular, Electrophysiological, and Behavioral Characterization of the K63-Specific Deubiquitinase CYLD in Synaptic Function and Plasticity
