Alumni Program

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Cristina Strong

Thesis Title: Understanding the role of involucrin in skin inflammation

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Maynard M. Olson

Thesis Title: "Intergenic Conversion in the tRNATyr Gene Family of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Keith B. Hengen

Thesis Title: "Robust Embeddings of Genetics, Anatomy, and State Decoded from a Neuron’s Activity"

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: Paul H. Taghert

Thesis Title: "Isolation, Characterization and Expression of theDrosophila FMRFamide Gene"

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Ross L. Cagan

Thesis Title: Genetic Regulation of Programmed Cell Death in the Developing Drosophila Retina /Short title: Programmed cell death in the fly eye

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Kelle H. Moley

Thesis Title: Type 1 Diabetes and the Male Reproductive Axis

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Batf regulates previously unknown AP-1 target genes to control TH17 differentiation

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: John P. Atkinson

Thesis Title: Characterization of complement C3 dysfunction predisposing to two human disease states

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber

Thesis Title: Extraordinary immunodeficiency in adult jak1 mice rescued by tissue restricted expression jak1

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Understanding the paradox of genetic diversity in uropathogenic E. coli: the uncommon evolution of a common pathogen