Alumni Program

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner

Thesis Title: Circuit Mechanisms of Spontaneous and Light Evoked Activity in the Retina

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ali H. Ellebedy

Thesis Title: Defining B cell Responses to Emerging Viral Pathogens

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: Role of GRA7 in the virulence of Toxoplasma gondii

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: Multiple Functions of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encoded Protein ICP34.5 Combat the Host Anti-viral Response

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Ted H. Hansen

Thesis Title: Recognition of Peptide/H-2Ld Complexes by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes I. Requirement for CD8 in Syngeneic Responses II. Role of Peptide in Allogeneic Responses

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan M. Chase

Thesis Title: The Effects of Forest Management Practices on Human Risk of Exposure to Tick-Borne Disease

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath

Thesis Title: Molecular Regulation of Vertebrate Pigmentation and Stem Cell Quiescence in Larval Zebrafish

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: David Wang

Thesis Title: Bioinformatics for high-throughput virus detection and discovery

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Sheila A. Stewart

Thesis Title: Regulation and inhibition of tumor promoting microenvironments

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Andrea Soranno

Thesis Title: Combining Simulations and Single Molecule Spectroscopy To Understand SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein-RNA Interactions