Alumni Program
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
Stella Varnum
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jonathan R. Brestoff
Thesis Title: Mitochondria transfer-based therapy for the mitochondrial disease Leigh syndrome
Michael Vasek
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2015
Thesis Advisor: Robyn S. Klein
Thesis Title: Mechanisms underlying memory deficits following West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease
Chayla Vazquez
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jordan G. McCall
Thesis Title: Maternal Separation Disrupts Noradrenergic Control of Adult Coping Behaviors
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
Richard Vega
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 1999
Thesis Advisor: Daniel P. Kelly
Thesis Title: A Genetic Regulatory Program Involved in the Brown Adipocyte Differentiation Program
Monica Vega Hernandez
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: David M. Ornitz
Thesis Title: The Role FGF Signaling in Epicardial-Derived Cardiac Fibroblast Development and Migration
Dilys Vela
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Jonathan A. Myers
Thesis Title: Abiotic niche-assembly as a driver of species diversity and relative abundance in temperate and tropical forests