Graduate students supported by the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program
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Ms. Evitts is a Bioengineering graduate student performing her Ph.D. thesis studies in the labs of Jessica Young and Ying Zheng. Her thesis project is focused on developing a stem cell based model of the human neurovascular unit (NVU) to study neurovascular interactions in the brain and investigate neurovascular dysfunction in age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Her […]
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Biochemistry, Biochemistry Graduate Program
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Mr. Abdiasis is a PhD candidate in the department of biochemistry performing his thesis research in the laboratory of Professor Hannele Ruohola-Baker. He previously studied an intermediate pluripotent step, embryonic diapause, which disrupts the transition from the pre-implantation naïve to post-implantation primed embryonic. He foun that diapause has a distinct lipid metabolic profile compared to […]
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Ms. Bugg is an M3D graduate student in Pathology performing her Ph.D. thesis studies in the Davis Lab focusing on how various cardiac fibroblast cell state changes affect cardiac physiology over time. In particular she is focusing on understanding how fluid these changes are and if there is the possibility to revert to a healthy […]
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Lab Medicine and Pathology, M3D Ph.D. Program
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Mr. Kiflezghi is a graduate student in the M3D Ph.D. program and pre-doctoral trainee in the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program. He is performing his Ph.D. thesis studies in the Kaeberlein Lab, where he has developed and applied novel technology for identifying small molecule inhibitors of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). As […]
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Biochemistry, Biochemistry Graduate Program
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Ms. Tsantilas is a PhD Candidate in Biochemistry performing her thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. James B. Hurley. Her main focus is on how aging impacts the function and metabolic capacity of the ocular ecosystem. In particular, this work examines neighboring tissues – the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) – that are heavily […]
