Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Shining a Multiomic Lens on Germline Variants: Patterns and Functional Implications Across Cancer Types

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Cristina Strong

Thesis Title: Elucidating Enhancer Function in Epidermal Development and Filaggrin Loss-of-Function Variants in African American Atopic Dermatitis

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: James Umen

Thesis Title: Deciphering the origins of cell-type differentiation using the simple multicellular green alga Volvox carteri

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo

Thesis Title: Defining Neuronal Identity Using MicroRNA-Mediated Neuronal Reprogramming

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: John R. Edwards

Thesis Title: Designing Epigenome Editing Tools to Understand the Functional Role
of DNA Methylation Changes in Cancer

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Ling-Gang L. Wu

Thesis Title: Calcium Triggers and Further Controls the Speed and Amount of Endocytosis at a Central Synapse

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: David A. Harris

Thesis Title: Aggregation and Localization of a Disease-Associated Mutant Prion Protein

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra

Thesis Title: Developments in Proteomics, Trans-Splicing Technology And Endogenous Transcript Manipulation

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Mark S. Sands

Thesis Title: Substrate reduction therapy for Krabbe disease and a new murine model for cell-autonomous expression of lysosomal hydrolases

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Douglas L. Chalker

Thesis Title: The Role of dsRNA in Nuclear Differentiation and Remodeling in the Ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila