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Upcoming Doctoral Dissertations

School of Engineering and Science

DISSERTATIONS IN MARCH

March 11, 2026 - Zahra Hashemi

Candidate	Zahra Hashemi
Date	Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Time	10:00 AM (Eastern)
Title	Epithelial-Specific Loss of SMAD4 Alleviates the Fibrotic Response in an Acute Colitis Mouse Model
Location	McLean 510

"Mucosal healing is strongly linked to improved clinical outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease; however, the specific role of the epithelium in driving this process in vivo remains poorly defined. To address this, we examined mucosal repair in an acute dextran sulfate sodium–induced colitis model in which epithelial-specific deletion of Smad4 results in an attenuated colitis response. We find that enhanced epithelial wound healing alleviates the fibrotic response." Read more

March 27, 2026 - Hanwen Shen

Candidate	Hanwen Shen
Date	Friday, March 27, 2026
Time	12:00 PM (Eastern)
Title	Compression Technique for Word Problem in HNN Extensions
Location	North Building, Room 316

"This research investigates computational complexity aspects of word problems in HNN extensions. The study builds upon Miller’s classical result demonstrating the existence of HNN extensions with decidable word problems but undecidable conjugacy problems." Read more

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