Student Seminars and Professional Development Workshops
Welcome to the GSBS Student Seminar and Professional Development Workshop page. All Ph.D. students must give an annual, oral seminar during the fall or spring term. All Work-in-Progress seminars and Thesis Defenses are located on the Stratford Campus in Room 290 of the Science Center, unless otherwise noted.
PhD Thesis Defense Presenter: Mariia Ivanova, PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Ronald Ellis
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION AND TIMES OF ACTION OF HETEROCHRONIC GENES
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=md7f5520cfff308a49cfb6833dcd67964
Ph.D. Thesis Defense Presenter: Tirth Patel, D.O./Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Rood
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Investigating the Role of Dorsal Raphe Vasopressin 1A Receptor Neurons in Mouse Social Behavior
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/meet/patelt42
Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdocs, 2022-2023
Presented by: Gary Grover, Ph.D.
Department: GSBS in partnership with the Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Drug Discovery and Life in Pharma
Date: Friday, May 19, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: James Kennedy, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Ron Ellis
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: Evolution of fem-1 activity in Caenorhabditis
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 145
Webex Link: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=mec461ee753886f78a2e10f0562ddb73c
Work in Progress Presenter: Haven Predale, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Barry Waterhouse
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Organizational Features and Functional Implications of the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Projection to Motor Centers of the Mouse Brain
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/meet/predal25
Work in Progress Presenter: Brittany Friedson, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Katrina Cooper
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: Role of the Cdk8 kinase module with expression of protein translation machinery
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=m26e48003e9710bff69a8431647490074
Mentor: Dr. Sal Caradonna
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: Acetylation and transcriptional activity of the vitamin D receptor
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: Alicia Campbell, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Randy Strich
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: Coordinating transcriptional control and mitochondrial dynamics in skeletal muscle cells
Date: Monday, April 3, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/meet/campbe26Work in Progress Presenter: David Kahn, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Rood
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Investigating the Role of Vasopressin-Responsive Neurons in the Mediodorsal Thalamus
Date: Friday, March 31, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=m9020f80d99bc2e050e484d10e17ba561Work in Progress Presenter: Timothy Joseph Sloand, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth West
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Frontal circuits mediating flexible behavior deficits in an Alzheimer's disease rat model
Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: Bhumiben Patel, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Loweth
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Effects of Sex and Estrous Cycle on Oxycodone Self-Administration and Drug Seeking Behavior
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: Quy Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Francis
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Investigating the Function of Aspartoacylase in Age-Related Energy Metabolism in the Brain and Risk for Neurodegenerative Disease
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: Stephen Willis, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Randy Strich
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: tbd
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: tbd
Work in Progress Presenter: Nicole Hinds, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Manvich
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Neuroactivational and behavioral correlates of psychosocial stress-induced cocaine seeking in rats
Date: Monday, March 20, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=me920b4f4bb94818bbb39f7202976e5d7
Work in Progress Presenter: Erin Wannen, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Jessica Loweth
Department: Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Investigating Mechanisms Underlying Sex Differences in Incubated Cocaine Seeking Behavior
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: tbd
Work in Progress Presenter: Jie Yang, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Brian Weiser
Department: Molecular Biology
Title: Discovery of Sirtuin Probes and Modulators
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Work in Progress Presenter: Christopher Knapp, Ph.D. Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Rachel Navarra
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Title: Assessing the effects of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury on risk/reward decision making and catecholamine regulatory proteins
Date: November 29, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Stratford Campus, Science Center, Room 290
Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=m7618c56ebf0fce158a2b2b251a2fa9d6
Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Date: September 23, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm
Presenter: Jessika Zinskie, Ph.D.
Solutions and Support Scientist for LI-COR Biosciences
Topic: How to build a strong, eye-catching, and powerful LinkedIn page: from a graduate student to a professor.
Location: Science Center, Room 290