Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.
Zentrum fur Experimentelle Neurologie (ZEN), Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Medical Faculty
«Stability of Hypothalamic Neural Population Activity Across Sleep-Wake States»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Antoine Roger Adamantidis
Title: «MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy)»
Date of Thesis defense: Friday, January 24, 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.
, Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship sitem, Medical Faculty:
«Uncertainty-based error localisation and correction for deep learning anatomy segmentation for treatment planning in orthopaedics»
Supervisors: PD Dr. Kate Gerber
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Engineering»
University Hospital for Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty
«Rho-kinase involvement in ocluar fibrosis»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Volker Enzmann, PD Dr. med. Souska Sophie Zandi
Date of Thesis defense: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
nstitute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty Bern
«Characterisation and validation of putative targets for intervention in Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum infection»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrew Hemphill
Title: «PhD in Cell Biology»
Date of Thesis defense:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
University of Bern, DBMR, Angiology, Medical Faculty:
«ChemR23 prevents phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells into macrophage like foam cells in atherosclerosis»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Yvonne Döring
Title: «PhD in Immunology».
Universität Bern,IFIK, Medicine Faculty:
«Characterization of the Interaction of Influenza D Virus with the Host Innate Immune System»
Supervisors: PD Dr. Ronald Dijkman
Title: «PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology»
Date of Thesis defense: January 21, 2025
Universität Bern, ARTOG, Medical Faculty:
«Multi-Scale Bone Morphology-Mechanical Property Relations in Ageing and Disease»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philippe Zysset
Date of Thesis defense: Monday, January 20, 2025
University of Bern, DBMR, Medical Faculty:
«Characterization of the Mc4rKO mouse model to investigate the immune landscape in MASH livers»
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Deborah M. Keogh-Stroka
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences».
