1996

Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: George W. Gokel

Thesis Title: Synthetic Models for Transmembrane Channels: Structural Variatioins That Alter Cation Flux

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy

Thesis Title: Molecular Analysis of the Tobamovirus Ob and Induction of the N gene-Mediated Hypersensitive Response

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: Murine Cytomegalovirus Latency

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J. Miletich

Thesis Title: Structrual Determinants of Coagulation Factor X Function

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: The Role of the Virion Host Shutoff (VHS) of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 in Latency and Pathogenesis

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Landick

Thesis Title: Interactions of RNA and DNA with RNA Polymerase that Govern the Formation of a Paused Transcription Complex

Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: George W. Gokel

Thesis Title: Physical-chemical Studies Related to Crown-ether-based Cation Channels and Redox-switchable Vesicles from Ferrocene Amphiphiles

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: "Analysis of Cytokine Signals Regulating T Helper Cell Development"

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial DNA VAriation and Biogeography Among Some Etheostomid Darters of the Central Highlands

Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Genetic and biochemical Studies of S. cerevisiae myristoylCoA:protein N myristoyltransferase mutants