Calendars
Scheduled Defenses
Tuesday March 18, 2025
7:30 CDT Tianshu Gu - Biomedical Sciences
"Advancing Pandemic Response: Integrated Strategies for Testing, Prediction, and
Bias Mitigation"
Advisor: Minghui (Sam) Li
Tuesday March 18, 2025
11:45 CDT Graham Mitchell Garvey - Dental Sciences
"Comparison of the Effects of Exposure Time and Voxel Size on the Measured Alveolar
Bone Thickness in Cone Beam Computed Tomography"
Advisor: Ayman Aldayeh
Location: Conference room, Department of Orthodontics, Dunn Dental Building
Note: Meeting ID: 818 9157 3791 Passcode: 945158
Friday March 21, 2025
10:00 CDT Flavia Villani - Biomedical Sciences
"Deciphering Genotype-Phenotype Connections: Leveraging Pangenomes and Comprehensive
Genome Variation"
Advisor: Vincenza Colonna
Location: 930 Madison Building Freeman Auditorium (3rd Floor)
Note: Meeting ID: 848 7681 8013
Wednesday March 26, 2025
12:00 CDT Thomas Henderson Butler - Dental Sciences
"Softer Orthodontic Adhesives May Cause More Iatrogenic Damage During Cleanup Than
Harder Adhesives"
Advisor: Antheunis Versluis
Note: Meeting ID: 828 4266 4495 Passcode: 803255
Friday March 28, 2025
11:00 CDT John Hennelly Irvin - Dental Sciences
"Changes in the Thickness of Alveolar Bone Following Orthodontic Retraction of
Maxillary Incisors in Adolescents"
Advisor: Ayman Aldayeh
Location: Conference room, Department of Orthodontics
Note: Meeting ID: 813 5281 5877
Tuesday April 15, 2025
13:00 CDT Ifebuche Nnamani - Biomedical Sciences
"Hantavirus Prevention: Vaccines, and the How and Where to Find
Hantaviruses"
Advisor: Colleen B Jonsson
Important Dates
Event times are U.S. Central time zone
- Aug 12, 2024 deadline for completion of degree requirements for August diploma
- Nov 1, 2024 deadline for oral defense and approval of ETD final content and language for December graduation