Spandan PathakDissertation Title: Quantification and Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Waves in Dynamic Cellular Systems Date & Time: May 13, 2025 at 10:00 am Location: 1136 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: Wolfgang Losert (CHAIR), Kimberly Stroka, Joshua Weitz, Maria Mukhina, Jens Herberholz |
Aleksandr FrimanDissertation Title: Computational identification of PIWI-associated RNA sources using novel small RNA and evolutionary analyses Date & Time: April 7, 2025 at 10:00 am Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: Wolfgang Losert (CHAIR), Pratyush Tiwary, Najib M. El-Sayed, Arpita Upadhyaya, Antony Merlin Jose |
Jiyeon MinDissertation Title: Investigating Biological Systems: Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Machine Learning Approaches to Peptide-Lipid, Ionizable Lipid-RNA Interactions, and Iron-Sulfur Proteins Date & Time: March 11, 2025 at 11:00 am Location: 3150 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: Jeffery Klauda (CHAIR), Bernard Brooks, Brian Pierce, Silvina Matysiak, Sergei Sukharev |
Keshav SrinivasanDissertation Title: Analyzing the dynamics of biological and artificial neural networks with applications to machine learning Date & Time: June 27, 2024 at 2:00 pm Location: 2136 Physical Sciences Complex Examining Committee: Michelle Girvan (CHAIR), Dietmar Plenz, Edward Ott, Wolfgang Losert, Brian Hunt |
Tyler SimmonsDissertation Title: Construction and Analysis of Mathematical Models Governing Cellular Exhaustion in Response to Solid Tumors to Guide Future Immunotherapy Research Date & Time: April 8, 2024 at 10:00 am Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: Doron Levy (CHAIR), Abba Gumel, Arpita Upadhyaya, Tonya Webb, Kimberly Stroka |
Dedi WangDissertation Title: Analyzing and Enhancing Molecular Dynamics through the Synergy of Physics and AI Date & Time: April 4, 2024 at 12:00 pm Location: 1136 A.V. Williams Building Examining Committee: Pratyush Tiwary (CHAIR), Christopher Jarzynski, Brian Pierce, Christopher Metzler, Michelle Girvan, Jeffery Klauda |
Riya SamantaDissertation Title: Understanding Allosteric communication in biological systems using Molecular Dynamics simulations Date & Time: April 1, 2024 at 10:00 am Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: Silvina Matysiak (CHAIR), David Weber, Pratyush Tiwary, Jinwoo Lee, Jeffery Klauda |
Madolyn BrittDissertation Title: The Role of the Protein-Lipid Boundary in the Gating of the Mechanosensitive Channel MscS, and the Thermodynamics of Arginine-Phosphate Interactions Date & Time: March 25, 2024 at 11:30 am Location: 1116 IPST Building (Seminar Room) Examining Committee: Sergei Sukharev (CHAIR), David Fushman, Jinwoo Lee, Silvina Matysiak, Jeffery Klauda |