The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates the following M.S. and Ph.D. graduates who obtained their degrees in spring 2018.
These are:
Ph.D. graduates:
Melissa Cruz-Acuna, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Polyethylenimine-Coated Single-Magnetic Gene Carriers and Their Evaluation in Various Transfection Systems
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Rinaldi
Swati Khare, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Characterization of Novel Biological Models for Spinocerebellar Ataxia 13
Advisor: Dr. Kyle Allen
Antonietta Restuccia, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Glycosylated Peptide Nanofibers as Tools to Elucidate Multivalent Carbohydrate Structure-Function Relationships
Advisor: Dr. Greg Hudalla
Immanuel Babu Henry Samuel, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Neural Responses to Cognitive Demand
Advisor: Dr. Mingzhou Ding
Abhiit Rajan, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control
Advisor: Dr. Mingzhou Ding
M.S. graduates:
Inha Baek
Advisor: Dr. Greg Hudalla
M.S. thesis: A Hydrogel Glycoarray Platform as a Replacement for Conventional Research Tools to Study Galectin Bioactivity
Ruoping Li
Advisor: Dr. Lin YangÂ
M.S. thesis: Automatic Knee Osteoarthritis Grading Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks