Alumni Program
Vicki Vance
Program: Plant Biology
Graduation Year: 1983
Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy
Thesis Title: "Mechanisms of Gene Expression for Soybean Mosaic Virus"
William Vanderheyden
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Shaw
Thesis Title: The Role of Extra Cellular Signal-Regulated Kinase in Sleep and Plasticity in Drosophila
Cassandra VanDunk
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2011
Thesis Advisor: Paul A. Gray
Thesis Title: SCN Development: Discovering the Foundations of Circadian Rhythmicity
Tambryn VanHeyningen
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 1997
Thesis Advisor: David D. Russell
Thesis Title: Modulation of macrophage function and T cell responsiveness by infection with Mycobacterium
Sadie VanHorn
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Samantha A. Morris
Thesis Title: Technology Development of High-resolution Single-cell Lineage Tracing in Cell Reprogramming Systems
Claudia Vargas
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2011
Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama
Thesis Title: Development of Thymic Natural Killer Cells From Double Negative 1 Thymocyte Precursors
Rhiannon Vargas
Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Graduation Year: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas
Thesis Title: Microbial Community Composition and Assembly in Diverse Environmental Systems
Katherine (K-T) Varley
Program: Computational Biology
Graduation Year: 2009
Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra
Thesis Title: Methods to Identify Genetic and Epigenetic Mutations in Cancer
Michael Vasek
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2015
Thesis Advisor: Robyn S. Klein
Thesis Title: Mechanisms underlying memory deficits following West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease
Luis Alberto Vega
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon
Thesis Title: Organization of the Streptococcal ExPortal and its Interaction with Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides