Alumni

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: “Phylogenetics and Morphological Evolution of Dicnemonaceae. Phylogenetics and Evolution of Hylocomiaceae.”

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Goodfellow

Thesis Title: Determining the roles that DICER1 and noncoding RNAs play in endometrial cancer tumorigenesis.

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin

Thesis Title: A Molecular Rheostat Coupling Cell Size to Nutrient Availability

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Andrew A. Chan

Thesis Title: Regulation of B Cell Activation through Tyrosine Phosphorylation of BLNK

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Antiviral programs in the brain

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Christopher N. Topp

Thesis Title: Understanding the role of E1OGDH1 in Root System Architecture and Nitrogen Response in Maize

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: The Microbes Within: Pathogen In-Host Adaptation During Persistent Colonization and Recurrent Infection

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey D. Milbrandt

Thesis Title: Diverse Cell Types Establish a Pathogenic Immune Environment in Peripheral Neuropathy

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Rachel O.L. Wong

Thesis Title: Early Dendritic Development of Zebrafish Retinal Ganglion Cells-an in vivo analysis

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Takeshi Egawa

Thesis Title: Regulation of durable adaptive immune response by the c-MYC-AP4 transcriptional cascade