Alumni Program

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Shiming Chen

Thesis Title: Transcriptional precision in photoreceptor development and diseases – Lessons from the retinal transcription factor CRX

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Weikai Li

Thesis Title: Mass spectrometry footprinting analysis and molecular dynamics simulation for structural studies of transmembrane proteins

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Joshua J. Sanes

Thesis Title: The Mechanism of Action of Agrin

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: C. Charles Gu

Thesis Title: Principles of epigenome evolution

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Modifiers of Th2 development: Proteins interacting with GATA-3 and Cytohesin-1

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Marco Colonna

Thesis Title: Impact of TREM2 and microglia activation on neurodegeneration at single-cell resolution.

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh

Thesis Title: Secretory IgA enhances gut B cells priming and systemic IgG responses towards commensals

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Mechanisms for the function and regulation of FRA1 kinesin during cell wall assembly.

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of transcription regulation by CarD in Mycobacterium

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Conrad C. Weihl

Thesis Title: VCP: a gatekeeper for intracellular proteopathic seeding