TLRO Facilitates First-Ever Electronic Dissertation Defense

On April 3, 2020, Sebastian Cardona-Ramirez delivered his doctoral dissertation defense electronically (and passed!) to more than 30 audience members via Zoom. This marks the TLRO’s first-ever electronic dissertation defense.

Due to Covid-19 and a stay-at-home order for Columbia, MO, several TLRO graduate students will present their master and doctoral defenses electronically.

TLRO graduate students presenting defenses this Spring include the following:

• Melanie E. Boeyer: Doctoral defense titled “Temporal Milestones During Childhood: Identification of a Maturational Spurt”
• Sebastian Cardona-Ramirez: Doctoral defense titled “Biologic Responses of Ligament and Tendon Graft-Derived Fibroblasts to Clinical Levels of Cyclic Strain”
• Ishita R. Patel: Master defense titled “Characterization of the Relationship between Radiographic Grading and Biomarkers in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis”
• Emma C. LePage: Master defense titled “Intervertebral Discs: Metabolic Responses to Load, Injury, and Pro-inflammatory Stimulation”