2004

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Survival and Persistence of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in the Urinary Tract

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Baranski

Thesis Title: A Biophysical Approach to the Structure of the Rhadopsin/G-Protein Interface

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Carolyn J. Anderson

Thesis Title: Copper-64-Labeled Tetraazamacrocyclic Complexes for Radiopharmaceuticals: Metabolism, Characterization, and Mechanisms of Metal Dissociation

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Evolution and Development of Abdomincal Pigmentation in the Cardini Group of Drosophila

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Alison Goate

Thesis Title: Characterization of Domains Important for Stabilization and Maturation of the Alzheimer's Disease Protein Presenilin-1, and their Impact on Presenilinase and y-Secretase Activity

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Gary K. Ackers

Thesis Title: Mechanistic Characterization of Human Hemoglobin: Elucidation of Functional Autonomy in Half-Tetramers

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J. St. Geme, III

Thesis Title: Defining Evolutionary and Functional Relationships, Carbohydrate Modification and Surface Association of the Haemophilus Influenzae HMW-Family of Adhesins

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Guojun Bu

Thesis Title: Opposing Roles of the LDL Receptor-Related Protein (LRP1) and the LDL Receptor-Related Protein 1B (LRP1B) in beta-Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Trafficking and Processing

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman

Thesis Title: Amyloid-beta metabolism in the brain interstitial fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Emil R. Unanue

Thesis Title: Post-translational Modification of Class II Epitopes by Activated Antigen Presenting Cells