2003

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Tanya Wolff

Thesis Title: Genetic analysis of the Drosophila tissue polarity gene strabismus reveals novel roles for fat, flamingo, prickle and bedraggled in ommatidial polarity

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Ross L. Cagan

Thesis Title: The Drosophila Retina as a Model for Human Cancer: Identification of Genes that Mediate Oncogenic Tyrosine Kinase Signaling

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Min M. Zhuo

Thesis Title: Modulation of Spinal Sensory Transmission

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath

Thesis Title: Functions Studies of RCC1 in Drosophila CNS Development and Embryogenesis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Susan S. Wente

Thesis Title: Functional Analysis of FG Repeat Domains in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Molecular phylogenetic studies of speciation and phylogeny in salamanders; macroevolutionary and microevolutionary perspectives

Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Douglas F. Covey

Thesis Title: The Unnatural Enantiomer of Cholesterol: Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath

Thesis Title: "The Evolution of the Achaete-scute Complex and Arthropod Neural Patterning"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Jacques U. Baenziger

Thesis Title: Identification, Isolation, and Characterization of CNS Glycoproteins that Bear N-Linked Oligosaccharides Terminating in beta1,4-linked GalNAc-4-SO4

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Human-Bacteroides Symbiosis