Tuesday, January 16, 2018
1:00 PM
Integrated Sciences Building, Room 221 
Dissertation Title:  "Defining and manipulating the function of Protein Kinase C-theta in Graft-vs-Host responses"
Advisors:  Lisa Minter and Gregory Tew
 

Antimicrobial compounds added to preserve food during storage are believed to be benign and non-toxic to the consumer, but there is “a critical scientific gap in understanding the potential interactions” they may have with the hundreds of species of microbes in our intestines, say David Sela, a nutritional microbiologist, and colleagues. Read more

Richard Pilsner, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, recently received a five-year, $2.26 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to extend and replicate findings in an animal study of his earlier investigation into the effects of phthalate levels on sperm epigenetics and reproductive success in humans. Read more

Yubing Sun, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering is using a three-year, $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the biomechanical forces and chemical factors that cause birth defects of the brain and spinal cord in the first few weeks of fetal development. Known as neural tube defects, these conditions occur when critical parts of the central nervous system don’t develop properly. Read more