1999

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Ian W. Duncan

Thesis Title: Pattern Formation in the Adult Abdomen of Drosophila

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Yi Y. Rao

Thesis Title: "Signaling Mechanisms in Vertebrate Neural Development"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Charles C. Rice

Thesis Title: "Yellow fever virus nonstructural protein 1: an essential component of the flavivirus replicase"

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Sean R. Eddy

Thesis Title: Combining New Computational and Traditional Experimental Methods to Identify tRNA and snoRNA Gene Families within Complete Genomes

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Historical Biogeography in the Asian Herpetofauna and Evolution of the Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genome

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder

Thesis Title: Functional Importance of G-protein Thioacylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Walter W. Lewis

Thesis Title: Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Chemistry and Biology of Croton section Cyclostigma

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Robert W. Mercer

Thesis Title: The Multiple Roles of the Gamma Subunit of the NA,K-ATPASE

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi

Thesis Title: Genetics and Biochemical Analysis of the Functions of DNA Photolyase Homologues in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Regulation and Function of T-Helper Cell Phenotype-Specific Transcription Factors