Alumni Program
Ender Volkan
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2013
Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren
Thesis Title: Usher Mechanics: Workings of an Escherichia coli Molecular Machine
Leo Volkov
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Joseph C. Corbo
Thesis Title: Mechanisms regulating photoreceptor subtype specification and chromophore utilization in zebrafish.
James Voyvodic
Program: Neural Sciences
Graduation Year: 1988
Thesis Advisor: Dale D. Purves
Thesis Title: "Development and Regulation of Dendritic Geometry in the Rat Superio Cervical Ganglion"
Hung Vuong
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay
Thesis Title: Efficient packaging of HIV-1 genomes via recognition of its adenosine-rich content by a heterologous RNA-binding domain
James Waddle
Program: Genetics
Graduation Year: 1993
Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Waterston
Thesis Title: Molecular Analysis of Actin Capping Protein Function in C. elegans
Brian Wadugu
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Matthew J. Walter
Thesis Title: The role of U2AF1 in normal and abnormal hematopoiesis
Cynthia Wagner
Program: Genetics
Graduation Year: 1992
Thesis Advisor: Sarah C.R. Elgin
Thesis Title: A High Mobility Group Protein in Drosophila
Vitas Wagner
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2015
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon
Thesis Title: A Gnotobiotic Mouse Model for Studying the Effect of Human Gut Community Ecology on a Pathobiont, Bacteroides fragilis
Warren Wagner
Program: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
Graduation Year: 1981
Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven
Thesis Title: "A Systematic and Evolutionary Study of the Oenothera Caespitosa Species Group"
Tetsuro Wakatsuki
Program: Biophysics
Graduation Year: 1999
Thesis Advisor: Elliot L. Elson
Thesis Title: "The Mechanical Function of the Cytoskeleton in Reconstituted Tissue"