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Defense Announcement for Dasia Aldarondo

Dissertation Title:  Shear Stress-Induced Phenotypic Alterations in Monocytes: Exploring Rheometer Shear, Milli-fluidic Modeling, and ACE2 Dysregulation Effects            

Date:  Monday, April 8, 2024
Time:  10am - 12pm EST                              
Location:  DH 1102
Zoom Details:  https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98040356893?pwd=NlBzTlNXR080UlJTVEpiZHhQdjd2Zz09 

Committee Members:
Elizabeth Wayne, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, UW
Daphne Chan, PhD, Chemical Engineering CMU
Kathryn Whitehead, PhD Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, CMU
Siyang Zheng, PhD, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering, CMU

Defense Announcement for Tom Krumpolc 

Dissertation Title:  An Optimization Framework for Kinetic Model Building from Concentration and Spectroscopic Data
               
Date: April 16th, 2024 

Time: 8:30am-10:30am                                
Location:  DH 4201

Committee Members:

Larry Biegler, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU
Carl Laird, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU
Andrew Gellman, Department of Chemical Engineering, CMU
Hyung Kim, Department of Chemistry, CMU

Defense Announcement for Mariah Arral 

Dissertation Title:  The Effect of Physiology and Chemistry on Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Delivery             

Date:  April 16, 2024
Time:  9:00am                                
Location:  DH 1102
Zoom Details: 

https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98468663346?pwd=Qndkb2ZFVnpzSnFRdGZCZ0hYSzhZQT09
Meeting ID: 984 6866 3346
Passcode: 718975

Committee Members:

Kathryn Whitehead, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

James Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Anne Skaja Robinson, Ph.D.
Trustee Professor of Chemical Engineering

Stefanie Sydlik, Ph.D. (Outside, ChemE but at CMU)
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD (Outside of ChemE and CMU)
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research at the University of Pennsylvania

Dear students, . Please join us for a visit with our furry friends in the Grad Lounge DH A209 on Friday, April 19th from 3:30-5:30pm for cat cuddles with Frankie's Friends.  Please note the usual Friday grad happy hour is in A100 from 4:30pm-6:30pm.  . Also, if you have any clean towels or blankets for donation, please drop them off in advance to me/Heather Costello in DH 1101 or at the event in A209 (Grad Lounge). Hope to see you! . https://www.frankies-friends.org/Links to an external site. . We appreciate you!