Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.
ARTORG, Faculty of Medicine
«Alleviating the Issue of Annotation Scarcity in Semantic Segmentation using Active Learning»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raphael Sznitman
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Engineering»
Date of Thesis defense: Friday, March 28, 2025
The thesis defenses are organised by the student and the thesis committee, as some Institutes throughout the University of Bern and the Inselspital have regulations in place for the capacity of the rooms.
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine
«Novel Therapeutic Strategies Exploiting Mechanisms and Vulnerabilities in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de Julio & Dr. Sofia Karkampouna
Title: «MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy)»
Date of Thesis defense: Thursday, March 27, 2025
University Clinic for Ophtalmology, Faculty of Medicine
«Linking the Ocular Surface Microbiome to the Local Mucosal Immune System in Mice»
Supervisors: Dr.phil. Denise Corinne Zysset, Prof. Dr. Martin Zinkernagel
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences»
RI- Immunologie - Inselspital, Faculty of Medicine
«Immunotherapy Targeting Amyloid-Related Diseases»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Bachmann
Title: «PhD in Immunolgy»
Date of Thesis defense: Monday, March 31, 2025
Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science
«Diet-induced intergenerational control of growth and proteome composition in C. elegans»
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Daniel Towbin
Title: «PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology»
Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
«Role of Macrophage-Mesothelial Cell Crosstalk in Pathological Scarring within the Peritoneal Cavity»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Joel Zindel, Prof. Dr. Deborah Stroka
Title: «PhD in Immunology»
