2004

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: The Role of the VP16-Binding Domain of Vhs in Viral Growth, RNA Degradation, and Pathogenesis of Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Comparative Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics in Two Lizard Species

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo

Thesis Title: Computational Methods to Expand the Transcriptional Regulatory Network in Escherichia Coli

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi

Thesis Title: Components of the Functionally Stable Water Oxidation Center of Photosystem II in Synechocystis 6803

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey J. Skolnick

Thesis Title: The Study of Enzyme Function Conservation and its Application for Genome-scale Enzyme Function Inference and Metabolic-Pathway Reconstruction.

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Analysis of the functional relationships between the multiple activities of AvrRpt2, an effector from the bacterial phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw

Thesis Title: CD2AP regulates lysosomal targeting and degradation of receptors by recruiting TSF101 to the endosome membrane

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Steven E. Petersen

Thesis Title: Exploring task-level control: functional MRI of sustained neural activity

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Garland R. Marshall

Thesis Title: A Set of Computational Tools for the Analysis and Prediction of Protein Structures

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: John A. Cooper

Thesis Title: The Structure and Organization of Yeast Actin Patches