Congratulations to New PhD, Raquel Martinez Chacin

Raquel Martiniz Chacin successfully defended her PhD on June 2! Hurray! Way to go!

Raquel, a graduate student under the mentorship of Professor Nicholas Brown, gave her defense talk, which was titled, “The chain elongating E2 UBE2S activates the RING E3 ligase APC/C for substrate priming” via zoom.

Below are some pics from her defense. Click for larger view.

A zoom screen showing a slide with a white background with the title of the talk and a small insert of Raquel talking in the upper right.

Raquel starts – title of talk

Close up of Raquel's face while talking and gesturing with her handson the zoom screen.

Raquel giving her talk

Raquel's mentor, Dr. Nick Brown listening on the zoom screen.

Mentor, Nick Brown listening

Here’s a video of Raquel’s PhD Shirt Ceremony via zoom.

We wish you all the best, Raquel! We are very proud of you!

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