Alumni Program

Program: Integrative and Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: Meng-Chao M. Yao

Thesis Title: "Transformation of Tetrahymena Thermophila"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Meaghan Creed

Thesis Title: Oxycodone Self-Administration Modulates Ventral Pallidal Neuron Activity and Plasticity

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Systematics and Evolutionary Diversification in the Species-Rich Neotropical Tree Genus Swartzia (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae)

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Megan A. Cooper

Thesis Title: A human STAT3 GOF variant alters T cell function to drive skin inflammation

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Nima Mosammaparast

Thesis Title: Dysregulation of gene expression in non-photosensitive trichothiodystrophy

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Squamate Molecular Phylogenetics-Mitochondrial and Nuclear Perspectives

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: David L. Brody

Thesis Title: Mechanisms underlying Amyloid-beta and Tau Pathologies following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Todd A. Fehniger

Thesis Title: Elucidating the Heterogeneity and Epigenetic Determinants of Memory-like Natural Killer Cell Differentiation

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Shiming Chen

Thesis Title: Understanding CRX-associated retinopathies using animal models

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Robert P. Mecham

Thesis Title: Characterization of Microfibril-Associated Glycoprotein-1 (MAGP-1) and Identification of its Interactions within the Extracellular Matrix