1999

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Elliot L. Elson

Thesis Title: "The Mechanical Function of the Cytoskeleton in Reconstituted Tissue"

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Patterns of HIV-1 Evolution and their Association with Rate of Disease Progression

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Michael M. Lieber

Thesis Title: "The Mechanistic and Biochemical Analysis of V(D)J Recombination"

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall

Thesis Title: Theoretical and Experimental Studies of the UUCG Tetraloop: Continuum Solvation Simulations of RNA Structures

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: David M. Ornitz

Thesis Title: Regulation of Midbrain-hindbrain Development by a Subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors Short title: Midbrain-hindbrain Development

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Helen M. Piwnica-Worms

Thesis Title: Cdc25 and G2 Checkpoint Control in Fission Yeast

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Douglas D. Dean

Thesis Title: Transcription Repression by the Retinoblastoma Protein and Its Role in Cell Cycle Regulation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Joshua J. Sanes

Thesis Title: The Mechanism of Action of Agrin