Huge congratulations to Ken Brandon, who defended his dissertation today!! Ken's dissertation develops a multiscale framework to investigate endothelial junction remodeling across molecular, temporal, and spatial scales. His work advances our understanding of the endothelial barrier as a dynamic and coordinated system and how it is altered when disrupted. Ken received multiple fellowships to support his work, including the Clark Doctoral Fellowship and the NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. Ken's PhD work has resulted in 7 papers, including a first-author review, a first-author research paper published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering that was selected for cover art, 3 co-authored papers, and 2 more first-author papers in preparation. He has presented his research at national and international conferences, including a talk at the BMES Annual Meeting and the Gordon Research Conference on Cell Contact and Adhesion in Switzerland, for which he received a competitive GRC travel award. Ken also received the Goldhaber Travel Award and the International Conference Travel Support Award from the UMD Graduate School. He has been a wonderful mentor to undergraduate students in the lab, including Azkah, who completed an Honors thesis under his mentorship and will be going on to a PhD program next year, and Yoshi, who entered a PhD program last year. Congratulations, Ken!
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