1997

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Population Genetic Consequences of the Holocene Invasion of the Ozarks and Flint Hills by the Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) with Subsequent Habitat Fragmentation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Andreas H. Burkhalter

Thesis Title: Microcircuitry of Corticocortical Forward and Feedback Connections in the Rat Visual Cortex

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Eric E. Brown

Thesis Title: "Regulation of alphaMbeta2 Avidity by L-Plastin in Neutrophils"

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jay W. Ponder

Thesis Title: Multipole Electrostatic Methods for Protein Modeling with Reaction Field Treatment

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: John A. Cooper

Thesis Title: A Novel Cell Cycle Checkpoint for Nuclear Migration Requires the Yeast Homologue of Human EB1, a Binding Protein to the Tumor Suppressor, APC

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Transgenic Mouse Models of Gastric Epithelial Homeostasis

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Stuart A. Kornfeld

Thesis Title: ADP-ribosylation Factor and Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Formation on Golgi Membranes

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Karen L. O`Malley

Thesis Title: "Targeting Gene Expression to Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons: Characterization of Overexpression of Human Bcl-2 in a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease"

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Mark Johnston

Thesis Title: Modulation of Transcription Expression Levels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Timothy J. Ley

Thesis Title: Functional Analysis of Neutrophil and Natural Killer Cell Granzymes in Humans and Mice