GGSB THESIS DEFENSE EVENTS
Monday, October 5, 2026: 10:00 am – 11:00 am. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Zachary Weber (Marcelo Nobrega Lab) Will Present and Defend The Doctoral Dissertation Entitled: “Dissecting the role of common and rare regulatory variation in human inherited cardiomyopathies”
Friday, July 31, 2026: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Niyati Jain (Brandon Pierce Lab) Will Present and Defend The Doctoral Dissertation Entitled: “The Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Susceptibility to the Effects of Environmental Exposures and Aging”
Wednesday, June 10, 2026: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Sébastien Bastide (François Spitz Lab) Will Present and Defend The Doctoral Dissertation Entitled: “Three-dimensional genome architecture and the evolution of vertebrate regulatory innovations”
Friday, May 22, 2026: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. GCIS W301/303. Marta Majcherska-Agrawal (Chuan He Lab) Will Present and Defend The Doctoral Dissertation Entitled: “Decoding RNA Biology: RNA Modification Detection and Noncoding RNA Function”
Wednesday, May 13, 2026: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Busayo Bolonduro (Andrew Koh Lab) Will Present and Defend The Doctoral Dissertation Entitled: “Developmental bias in transcription factor activity organizes ectopic gene expression in thymic epithelial cells”
Monday, April 13, 2026: 9:30 am – 10:30 am. GCIS W301/303. Ashish Thakur (Francois Spitz Lab) Title: Encoding principles of insulator activity in CTCF-Cohesin-bound genomic elements
Tuesday, March 31, 2026: 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Hyunkyung Kim (Andy Dahl Lab) Title: “SPATULA: Anchored Bayesian Factorization for Distilling Trait-Specific Genetic Architecture in Correlated Phenotypes”
Tuesday, February 3, 2026: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Manasa Prahlad (Paschalis Kratsios Lab) Title: “Generation and Maintenance of Motor Neuron Identity Through the Intersection of HOX/PBX and Terminal Selector Functions”
Monday, January 26, 2026: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Via Zoom. Sabrina Arif (Ran Blekhman Lab) Title: “Characterizing gut microbiome composition, activity, and host response in global populations”
Thursday, November 20, 2025: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm. KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103. Jing Gu (Xin He Lab) Title: “Linking genetic variants to complex traits through single-cell genomics and RNA modification”
For additional information, please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu
January 14, 2027: Jared Atlas Manyuan Long Lab Title: "Investigating the sex-specific fitness effects of young and putatively essential genes in Drosophila" & Michelle Sun (Yoav Gilad Lab) Title: Coming Soon
January 21, 2027: Hao Yu (Yang Li Lab) Title: Coming Soon & Yuchen Zhang (Jian Zhou Lab) Title: Coming Soon
February 1, 2027: Riley Xin (Xin He Lab) Title Coming Soon & Roxana Wu ((Jian Zhou Lab) Title: Coming Soon
February 18, 2027: Axel Zagal Norman (Jeremy Berg Lab) Title Coming Soon & Liz Gibbons (Ran Blekhman Lab) Title: Coming Soon
March 4, 2027: Manuela Costantino (Andy Dahl Lab) Title Coming Soon & Mady Scherr (Francesca Luca Lab ) Title: Coming Soon
April 1, 2027: Gabe Hatto (Rama Ranganathan Lab) Title Coming Soon & Daniel Lee (Brett Beaulieu-Jones Lab) Title: Coming Soon
April 15, 2027: Zining Qi (Xuanyao Liu Lab) Title Coming Soon &S’Khaja Charles (Brett Beaulieu-Jones Lab) Title: Coming Soon
April 22, 2027: Mark Minogue (Zhuzhu Zhang Lab) Title Coming Soon & Mei Knudson (Aly Khan Lab) Title: Coming Soon
May 6, 2027: Junru Jin (Jian Zhou Lab) Title Coming Soon & Saideep Gona (Alex Pearson Lab) Title: Coming Soon
March 4, 2027: Hang Chen (Jingxin Wang Lab) Title Coming Soon & Caden Proctor (Arjun Raman Lab) Title: Coming Soon
For additional information please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu
January 28, 2027: Nasser Elhajjaoui & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon & Kirsten Nishino & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon
February 25, 2027: Austin Szatrowski & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon & Fiona Kinney & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon
March 25, 2027: Wiktor Mikolajczak & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon & Jessie Puckett & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon
April 8, 2027: Erik Anderson & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon & Jiaming Liu & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon
April 29, 2027: Hanqing Li & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon & AJ Lonski & Faculty Paper: Coming Soon
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information