Nick Guzman Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology student is presenting his thesis work on let-7 microRNAs at AGE 2024 American Aging Association 🧬🤩🧬 Nick is working in the lab of Dr. Christian Sell Drexel University College of Medicine Well done, Nick🎉

Wrapping up the AGE 2024 American Aging Association at the Terrace at Memorial Union in Madison, WI 🍻🎉👏 Well done Britney Black DUCOM Cancer Biology Nick Guzman Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Kalisse Horne and Luisa Abadia DrexelMCBG - from the labs of Chris Sell and Eishi Noguchi Drexel University College of Medicine

Student and alumni from Chris Sell’s lab Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology DrexelMCBG Drexel University College of Medicine received Poster Pitch Awards AGE2024 American Aging Association 🥳 Congrats to Britney Black DUCOM Cancer Biology and Alessandro Bitto Alessandro Bitto 🎉 Also to the outstanding mentor, Dr. Christian Sell👏

Student and alumni of Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at American Aging Association Kalisse Horne Kalisse thee Scientist Noguchi Laboratory and Jennifer Alexander Dr. Edna Cukierman, Ph.D. - they didn't overlap in DrexelMCBG Program, but they are now connected😍 Thank you AGE2024 for a great platform expanding their networks 🥳

Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Ranjit Kaur DrexelMCBG MS candidate Thursday, June 20, 12 PM NCB Room 11101 Interplay of Hepatitis B Virus and lncRNA FAM99A Expression and Interacting Proteins in Liver Cancer Cell Lines Mentor: Michael Bouchard, PhD Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine

Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Roshni Kadam DrexelMCBG MS candidate Friday, June 28, 10:30 AM NCB Room 11101 Investigating the functional role of highly structured regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 using CRISPR/Cas-based deletion analysis Mentor: Sri Somarowthu, PhD Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Congratulation to🥳Dr. Emily Esquea Emily Esquea who defended her PhD thesis last week #proudpi 🏆@drexelmcbg DrexelMedGrad Drexel University College of Medicine

Thesis Defense 🧬 Tisha Kalpesh Desai MS candidate DrexelMCBG DrexelMedGrad Wednesday, June 26, 10 AM NCB Room 11101 Investigating the role of SND1 in Glioblastoma using RNA-Seq Mentor: Sri Somarowthu, PhD Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Priyashree Nagarajan MS candidate DrexelMCBG DrexelMedGrad Monday, July 15, 12:00 PM NCB Room 11101 Regulation of BORG2 by Cdc42 through Disruption of Internal Structure Shae Padrick, PhD Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Sarath Reghunathan, MS candidate DrexelMCBG Monday, July 29, 12:00 PM NCB Room 11101 Towards In-vitro reconstitution of Actin Comet Tail Formation and Septin Caging competition of Shigella Mentor: Shae Padrick, PhD Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Karan Bamb, MS candidate DrexelMCBG Friday, July 19, 12 PM NCB Room 11101 Multidrug Tolerance and the Stringent Response in Diverse Clinical Isolates of Haemophilus influenza Mentor: Donald C. Hall, PhD and Joshua Chang Mell, PhD Drexel University College of Medicine

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Dorothy Benton, PhD candidate DrexelMCBG Tuesday, July 30, 12:00 PM NCB Room 11101 Identifying new targets and drug combinations in Neurofibromatosis type 2 Mentor: Jonathan Chernoff, PhD jonathan chernoff Fox Chase Cancer Center

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Carly DeAntoneo, PhD candidate DrexelMCBG Drexel MCBG Program Monday, July 22, 10:30 AM Geary A, New College Building Reovirus Z-RNAs Activate ZBP1 Dependent Cell Death Mentor: Siddharth Balachandran, PhD Fox Chase Cancer Center

Big Congrats to Kalisse🎉 Kalisse Horne Kalisse thee Scientist DrexelMCBG received Administrative Supplements to Promote Diversity from NIH-NIA🤩 She is doing her PhD studies related to the biology of aging and cancer Noguchi Laboratory Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine DrexelMedGrad

Well done Havya 🤩🎉🥳 Sri Havya Jana Noguchi Laboratory DrexelMCBG Drexel University College of Medicine DrexelMedGrad successfully defended her MS thesis studies on the role of DDX11 DNA helicase in cancer 🧬 We had a great party and wish you further success 😊

The lab got a good news 😍 Well, we knew this, but finally confirmed 😉 Kalisse's PhD studies got funded by National Institute on Aging 🎉 Kalisse thee Scientist is happy, the lab is happy, and the Drexel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology is happy 🥳 Kalisse Horne is starting her 3rd year DrexelMCBG

MCBG Thesis Defense 🧬🧬🧬 Jill Lawrence, PhD candidate August 8, 2 PM NCB Geary A Characterizing pro-inflammatory A1-like astrocyte polarization in primary human cell models of chronic inflammation and HIV-1 Tat exposure Mentor: Michael Nonnemacher, PhD Drexel University College of Medicine

Drexel DrexelMCBG @Drexelmed PhD student Riley Young Riley presented part of her thesis research as a short talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory August 2024 Mechanisms and Models of Cancer Conference in Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Drexel MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬 Skandha Ramakrishnan PhD candidate DrexelMCBG Drexel University College of Medicine Advisor: Dr. Liang Oscar Qiang Drexel Neurobiology & Anatomy Functional roles of Spastin in health and disease

MCBG Seminar 🧬🧬🧬 Thursday, September 12, 2024, 1 PM Dr. Alison J. Carey Associate Professor Department of Microbiology & Immunology Department of Pediatrics Drexel University College of Medicine DrexelMCBG Distinct role of interferons in the neonate