2001

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Stephen L. Johnson

Thesis Title: Genetic Dissection of kit-dependent Melanocyte Development in Zebrafish, Danio rerio

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Virginia L. Miller

Thesis Title: Identification and characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica global virulence

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: A functional and biochemical comparison of the four murine notch homologs

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Michael L. Nonet

Thesis Title: A Molecular Genetic Analysis of Synapse Formation in C. elegans

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Intramembrane Proteolysis of the Notch Receptor and the Amyloid Precursor Protein

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: A Phylogenetic and Ecological Analysis of Iguanian Lizard Evolution

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Population Structure and Evolutionary History of a Cave-Adapted Planthopper in the Hawaiian Islands

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: David D. Chaplin

Thesis Title: Antigen and Inflammation in Recruitment of TH2 Cells to the Lungs in Murine Eosinophilic Airway Inflammation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: The Role of Herpes Simplex Virus Origins of DNA Replication in Flanking Promoter Regulation

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: David M. Ornitz

Thesis Title: Ataxia and Paroxysmal Dyskinesia in Mice Lacking Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factor 14