1997

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: William W. Snider

Thesis Title: "Roles of NGF and GDNF in the Regulation of Nociceptive Sensory Neurons"

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Enrico Di Cera

Thesis Title: Specific and Non-specific salt effects in proteins

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: "Phenotypic Plasticity: A Quantitative Genetic Styudy Using Manihot esculenta Crantz"

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Goodfellow

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Endometrial cancer Deletion Region at 10q25

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Christopher J. Lingle

Thesis Title: Properties of [Ca2+]: Elevations Driving Activation of Large Conductance Ca2+- and Voltage-activated K+ Channels in Rat Chromatin Cells

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: David I. Gottlieb

Thesis Title: "Gene Expression in Pluripotent Cells Undergoing Neural Differentiation"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Eric E. Brown

Thesis Title: Costimulation of T Cell Activation by the Integrin-associated Protein (IAP)

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Stuart S. Adler

Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanisms Controlling the Placental Expression of Corticotropin Releasing Hormone in Humans and Rodents

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Paul H. Taghert

Thesis Title: Exploration of Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Drosophila FMRFamide Gene Expression

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Phylogeny and Systematics of Leptochloa P. Beauv. sensulato (Poaceae, Chloridoideae).