You are invited to attend and participate in the oral doctoral examination of Chen Liang, candidate for the Ph.D. degree, which will be held on Thursday, December 12, at 9:30 a.m. in The Women’s Building, room 216.

Liang’s advisor is Professor Keith DeRuisseau. The dissertation examining committee will be composed of Professors Robert Doyle, Jessica Redmond, Michael Torak and Joseph Shedd. Professor John Tillotson will serve as chair of the defense. The title of the candidate’s dissertation is: “Functional and biochemical responses of skeletal muscle following a moderate degree of systemic iron loading in mice.”