Departmental Exams

PhD DEFENCE  Emily Button

PhD DEFENCE Emily Button

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Emily Button [ TITLE: VASOPROTECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS ON THE CEREBROVASCULATURE AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE ]
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Anam (Nan Nan) Liu MSc defence

Anam (Nan Nan) Liu MSc defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Anam (Nan Nan) Liu [TITLE: A SEMI-AUTOMATED ASSAY FOR RADIATION-INDUCED INTESTINAL DAMAGE IN MICE]
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Samuel Weng MSc Defence

Samuel Weng MSc Defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Samuel Weng [TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY UNDECANAL-BASED N TERMINI ENRICHMENT (HUNTER) FOR MONITORING PROTEOLYTIC PROCESSING IN LIMITED SAMPLES]
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Amy Nguyen

Amy Nguyen

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Amy Nguyen [TITLE: ANALYTICAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DETECTION OF AMYLOID-B PEPTIDES IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID BY MASS SPECTROMETRY]
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Abhinav Ajaykumar PhD Defence

Abhinav Ajaykumar PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Abhinav Ajaykumar [TITLE: DYNAMICS OF TELOMERE LENGTH AND MITOCHONDRIAL HEALTH IN RELATION TO COMBINATION ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (CART) EXPOSURE: A COHORT STUDY OF HIV/CART-EXPOSED UNINFECTED CHILDREN AND CELL CULTURE INVESTIGATION]
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Charles Soong PhD DEFENCE

Charles Soong PhD DEFENCE

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Charles Soong [TITLE: SIGNATURES OF GENOMIC INSTABILITY AND DNA REPAIR DEFECTS AS DETERMINANTS FOR TUMOUR CLONAL DYNAMICS AND SENSITIVITY TO G-QUADRUPLEX STABILIZERS]
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MSc  DEFENCE Cameron Oram

MSc DEFENCE Cameron Oram

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Cameron Oram [TITLE: GRANZYME B: ROLE IN SPINAL CORD INJURY AND IMPEDED REPAIR]
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MSc DEFENCE Wenchen Zhao

MSc DEFENCE Wenchen Zhao

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Wenchen Zhao [TITLE: AXL RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE REGULATES APOLIPOPROTEIN E EXPRESSION]
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MSc  DEFENCE – Yang (Zhouchunyang) Xia

MSc DEFENCE – Yang (Zhouchunyang) Xia

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Yang (Zhouchunyang) Xia [TITLE: LINE-1 RETROTRANSPOSITIONS IN EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER: CAN WE USE DNA “PARASITES” FOR GOOD PURPOSE?]
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Tina Yang PhD Defence

Tina Yang PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Tina Yang [TITLE: PROTEOMIC INVESTIGATION OF PROTEIN FUNCTION AND REGULATORY PATHWAYS IN CANCER]
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Fraser Muir

Fraser Muir

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Fraser Muir [TITLE: CD1D LIPID ANTIGEN PRESENTATION IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS]

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Stephanie Santacruz MSc Defence

Stephanie Santacruz MSc Defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Stephanie Santacruz [TITLE: GRANZYME B DISRUPTS CELL-CELL ADHESION AND EPITHELIAL BARRIER FUNCTION]

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Kevin Chung-Hua Tsai PhD Defence

Kevin Chung-Hua Tsai PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Kevin Chung-Hua Tsai [TITLE: SHAPING OF THE T CELL REPERTOIRE BY SELF AND FOREIGN ANTIGENS]

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PhD Defense Tom (Wai Hang) Cheng

PhD Defense Tom (Wai Hang) Cheng

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Tom (Wai Hang) Cheng [TITLE: THE INTERACTION OF REPETITIVE MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, ALZHEIMER DISEASE AND AGEING]

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PhD Haoyu Deng

PhD Haoyu Deng

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Haoyu (Eric) Deng [TITLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF COXSACKIEVIRUS TYPE B3 AS A NOVEL ONCOLYTIC VIRUS AGAINST KRAS-MUTANT NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER]

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PhD Sara Saberi

PhD Sara Saberi

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Sara Saberi [TITLE: DYNAMICS OF TELOMERE LENGTH AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CONTENT IN A COHORT STUDY OF HIV-INFECTED AND HIV-UNINFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN AND CELL CULTURE MODELS]

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Thyrza May Toledo

Thyrza May Toledo

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Thyrza May Toledo [TITLE: OPTIMIZATION OF THE DETECTION OF CIRCULATING DNA IN PEDIATRIC SOLID TUMOR PATIENTS TREATED WITH GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR]

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Marta Salvador Ordono

Marta Salvador Ordono

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Marta Salvador Ordono [TITLE: PLACENTAL MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IN RELATION TO PRETERM DELIVERY IN HIV PREGNANCY]

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Deborah Chen

Deborah Chen

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Deborah Chen [TITLE: RED BLOOD CELL HEMOLYSIS: PROTEIN BIOMARKER DISCOVERY FOR PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT]

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Arash Samiei

Arash Samiei

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Arash Samiei [TITLE: ROLE OF EEF2K IN DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE]

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PhD Defence Jonathan Lim

PhD Defence Jonathan Lim

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jonathan Lim [TITLE: THE IMPACT OF ONCOGENIC KRAS ON REDOX BALANCE TO SUPPORT CELLULAR TRANSFORMATION AND TUMORIGENICITY]

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PhD Exam Hani Bagheri

PhD Exam Hani Bagheri

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Hani Bagheri [TITLE: GENOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DNA COPY NUMBER VARIANTS ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES]

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PhD Defence Christa Klein-Bosgoed

PhD Defence Christa Klein-Bosgoed

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Christa Klein-Bosgoed [TITLE: USING PATHOGEN INACTIVATION TREATMENT TO STUDY THE STABILITY OF PLATELET] Read more…

MSc DEFENCE  Amanda Henderson

MSc DEFENCE Amanda Henderson

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Amanda Henderson [TITLE: : MATERNAL B-VITAMIN STATUS DURING DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMING OF ADULT OFFSPRING ADIPOSITY] Read more…

PhD Defence Ahmad Arbaeen

PhD Defence Ahmad Arbaeen

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Ahmad Arbaeen [TITLE: : IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY STANDARDS FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS: USE OF FUNCTIONAL MEASURES TO PREDICT PLATELET TRANSFUSION EFFICACY] Read more…

PhD Defence Manu Thomas Kalathottukaren

PhD Defence Manu Thomas Kalathottukaren

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Manu Thomas Kalathottukaren [TITLE: NOVEL ANTICOAGULANT NEUTRALIZING AGENTS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF BLEEDING: STUDIES ON THE DESIGN, MECHANISM OF ACTION AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON BLOOD COAGULATION] Read more…

Ada Young MSc defence

Ada Young MSc defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Ada Young [TITLE: CLINICALLY RELEVANT CONVENTIONAL DOSE OF IONIZING RADIATION ENHANCES TUMOUR CELL MIGRATION IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELL LINES] Read more…

Ada Leung Phd Defence

Ada Leung Phd Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Ada Leung [TITLE: IMPROVING PLATINUM-BASED TREATMENTS FOR ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER] Read more…

Jaques Courtade PhD Defence

Jaques Courtade PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jaques Courtade [TITLE: IMPAIRED PRO-ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE PROCESSING PROMOTES BETA-CELL DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETES AND ISLET TRANSPLANTS] Read more…

Nicholas Swyngedouw MSc

Nicholas Swyngedouw MSc

Msc DEFENCE – Student: Nicholas Swyngedouw [TITLE: THE INFLUENCE OF INTERLEUKIN-13 ON FORCE GENERATION IN AIRWAY SMOOTH MUSCLE TISSUE] Read more…

Adam Yu MSc Defence

Adam Yu MSc Defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Adam You [TITLE: NEUROINFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS MODULATE ARNT2 AND RME-8 EXPRESSION WITHIN THE CNS] Read more…

PhD Exam: Gabriel Fung

PhD Exam: Gabriel Fung

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Gabriel Fung [TITLE: Interplay Between Stress Granules, Cellular Stress Response, and Coxsackievirus B3 Infection] Read more…

Jacob Rozmus PhD Defence

Jacob Rozmus PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jacob Rozmus [TITLE: NOVEL MECHANISMS INVOLVING B CELL RECEPTOR (BCR) AND B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR (BAFF) SIGNALLING PATHWAYS UNDERLYING HUMAN PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCIES AND MALIGNANCY] Read more…

Tissa Rahim MSc Defence

Tissa Rahim MSc Defence

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Tissa Rahim [TITLE: INVESTIGATING THE REGULATION OF ARNT2, A NEUROPROTECTIVE PROTEIN, IN MODELS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS] Read more…

Yulia Merkulova

Yulia Merkulova

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Yulia Merkulova [TITLE: GRANZYME B INHIBITS KERATINOCYTE MIGRATION BY DISRUPTING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR (EGFR)-MEDIATED SIGNALING] Read more…

Matthew Budd

Matthew Budd

MSc DEFENCE – Student: Matthew Budd [TITLE: EXPLORING MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ABNORMALITIES IN HIV-EXPOSED UNINFECTED CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: A CASE CONTROL STUDY] Read more…

Paul Hanson PhD

Paul Hanson PhD

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Paul Hanson [TITLE: VIRAL PROTEASE DISRUPTION OF HOST TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION FACTORS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF COXSACKIEVIRUS B3 INDUCED VIRAL MYOCARDITIS] Read more…

Robert Kridel PhD Defence

Robert Kridel PhD Defence

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Robert Kridel [TITLE: THE GENETIC BASIS OF TRANSFORMATION AND PROGRESSION IN FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA] Read more…

Alistair Chenery Phd

Alistair Chenery Phd

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Alistair Chenery [TITLE: REGULATION OF MUCOSAL T CELL RESPONSES BY INTESTINAL HELMINTHS AND RETINOIC ACID METABOLISM] Read more…

PhD DEFENCE Melissa Glier

PhD DEFENCE Melissa Glier

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Melissa Glier [TITLE: METHYL METABOLISM IN OBESITY-RELATED CARDIAC REMODELING] Read more…

MSc Defence Emma Conway

MSc Defence Emma Conway

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Emma Conway [TITLE: CISPLATIN PARTIALLY IMPEDES LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA-MEDIATED M2 MACROPHAGE POLARIZATION] Read more…

PhD DEFENCE Chansonette Badduke

PhD DEFENCE Chansonette Badduke

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Chansonette Badduke [TITLE: FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF NOVEL MICRODELETIONS AND MICRODUPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY] Read more…

Lynn (Yu-Hsuan) Huang

Lynn (Yu-Hsuan) Huang

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Lynn (Yu-Hsuan) Huang [TITLE: THE ROLE OF SAP IN ANTIGEN PRIMING AND DIFFERENTIATION OF T LYMPHOCYTES] Read more…

PhD Kevin Yang

PhD Kevin Yang

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Kevin Yang [TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR TO TREAT CASTRATION-RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER] Read more…

Jithendra (Jay) Gunawardana

Jithendra (Jay) Gunawardana

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jithendra (Jay) Gunawardana [TITLE: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL RECURRENT MUTATIONS IN PRIMARY MEDIASTINAL LARGE B CELL LYMPHOMA AND HODGKIN LYMPHOMA] Read more…

PhD Junyan Shi

PhD Junyan Shi

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Junyan Shi [TITLE: DISRUPTION OF SELECTIVE AUTOPHAGY IN COXSACKIEVIRUS B3 INFECTION] Read more…

PhD Jaswinder Khattra

PhD Jaswinder Khattra

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jaswinder Khattra [TITLE: CHARTING BREAST TUMOR HETEROGENEITY: FROM BULK TUMOR GENOMES TO SINGLE-CELL GENOTYPES] Read more…

PhD Jennifer Won

PhD Jennifer Won

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Jennifer Won [TITLE: CLINICAL PERFORMANCE OF DIAGNOSTIC, PROGNOSTIC AND PREDICTIVE IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL BIOMARKERS FOR HORMONE RECEPTOR-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER] Read more…

PhD Defence Cherry Ma

PhD Defence Cherry Ma

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Qianli (Cherry) Ma [TITLE: FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF PPP2R2A IN BREAST CANCER] Read more…

PhD Melissa McConechy

PhD Melissa McConechy

PhD DEFENCE – Student: Melissa McConechy [TITLE: PPP2R1A MUTATIONS IN GYNAECOLOGIC CANCERS: FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION AND USE IN THE GENOMIC CLASSIFICATION OF TUMOURS] Read more…