Alumni

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw

Thesis Title: The Role of CD2AP in Actin Filament Dynamics and its Interaction with Capping Protein

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Stephen “Kerry” K. Kornfeld

Thesis Title: The Roles of CDF Proteins, Zinc Ions, and SAR-6 in Regulating RAS-Mediated Signaling

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Baranski

Thesis Title: Modulation of MAP Kinase Signaling by the Chimaerin Rac GAPs

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Alison Goate

Thesis Title: Characterization of Domains Important for Stabilization and Maturation of the Alzheimer’s Disease Protein Presenilin-1, and their Impact on Presenilinase and y-Secretase Activity

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Daniel D. Hartl

Thesis Title: “Molecular Analysis of Transposon-induced Mutations and Their Derivatives in Drosophila”

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Susan S. Wente

Thesis Title: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Yeast Nuclear Pore complex Assembly and Dynamics

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Christina A. Gurnett

Thesis Title: Genomic Analysis of Human Spinal Deformity and Characterization of a Zebrafish Disease Model

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1981

Thesis Advisor: Carl C. Rovainen

Thesis Title: “Identification of CC Interneurons and Studies of Swimming Activity in the Lamprey”

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Phyllis I. Hanson

Thesis Title: Targeting and Activity of the AAA+ ATPase torsinA within the endoplasmic reticulum

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Erika Pearce

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming