2000

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Molecular Systematics of the Espeletia Complex: Evidence from nrITS Sequence on the Evolution of an Andean Adaptive Radiation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: Role of the Viral pX Region Encoded Proteins in the Transformation of T-Lymphocytes by the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Arnold A. Strauss

Thesis Title: The Molecular Genetics, Structure, and Function of Mammalian Medium and Short Chain L-3-Hydroxyacyl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: David D. Chaplin

Thesis Title: A Role for Interleukin-1B in the Contact Hypersensitivity Response

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Timothy J. Ley

Thesis Title: Identification of the Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for Granzyme B-Mediated Apoptosis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Eric E. Brown

Thesis Title: The Role of L-Plastin in Leukocyte Integrin Activation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Henry V. Huang

Thesis Title: Sequence Requirements and Utilization of the Sindbis Virus Subgenomic mRNA Promoter

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Anthony J. Muslin

Thesis Title: Regulation of MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways by KSR and 14-3-3

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Samuel Speck

Thesis Title: Regulation of Epstein-Barr Nuclear Antigen Gene Promoters in Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Michael L. Nonet

Thesis Title: Synaptic protein localization and activity-dependent remodeling in C. Elegans