1997

Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: George W. Gokel

Thesis Title: Synthetic Organic Model for Transmembrane Cation Function

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Charles C. Rice

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Proteolytic Processing of the Yellow Fever Virus Capsid Protein

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "The Molecular Correlate of the Transient Outward Current, Ito, in the Mammalian Heart"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Stanley S. Korsmeyer

Thesis Title: "The Role of BCL-2 Family Regulated Apoptosis in T cell Development"

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: James M. Cheverud

Thesis Title: Evolutionary Diversification Among Tamarins (Genus Saguinus)

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Helen H. Donis-Keller

Thesis Title: Molecular Genetic Studies of Prostate Cancer

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Paul C. Bridgman

Thesis Title: "Actin-Based Intracellular Transport and Myosin V: the Role of a Membrane-Associated Mechanoenzyme in Intracellular Transport"

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Douglas M. Tollefsen

Thesis Title: Inhibition of Thrombin and Meizothrombin by Heparin CofactorII: Features that Determine Complex Stability and Protease Specificity

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Steven M. Rothman

Thesis Title: "Cellular Pathophysiology of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diseases of the Nervous System"

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Carl Frieden

Thesis Title: "Sidechain Behavior During Folding of E. coli Dihydrofolate Redfuctase Studied by Stopped-Flow 19F NMR"