2004

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Paul M. Allen

Thesis Title: The effects of tumors and their surrounding environments on tumor-specific T cell responses

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Christine T.N. Pham

Thesis Title: The Characterization of Mouse Cathespin W: a Cysteine Protease Specific Effector Cells

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: Notch Signaling: From Reconstruction of the Pathway in Yeast to its Function in Mice

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: David C. Van Essen

Thesis Title: Peaked Luminance Encoding in Macaque Areas V1 and V2

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore

Thesis Title: Analysis of the Role of the LIM Protein, Ajuba in Cel Adhesion and Motility

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: J. Evan Sadler

Thesis Title: Von Willebrand Factor Multimerization: Identification of an early intermediate and analysis of free thiols

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Christine T.N. Pham

Thesis Title: Serine Proteases Cathepsin G and Neutrophil Elastase Regulate Adhesion-Dependent Neutrophil Effector Functions

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: John P. Atkinson

Thesis Title: Role for a Complement Regulatory Protein in Reproduction: Structure and Function of Membrane Cofactor Protein (MCP;CD46) on Spermatozoa

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Joseph P. Vogel

Thesis Title: Role of the Type IV Secretion ATPase DotB in Legionella pneumophilia Intracellular Replication

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall

Thesis Title: The Functional Role of Correlated Motion in RNA-Protein Interactions: NMR Relaxation and Molecular Dynamics Studies of U1A RNA Binding Domain 1 and RNA Hairpin Dynamics