2006

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Timothy J. Ley

Thesis Title: Proteomic Analysis of Granzyme B-Mediated Cell Death

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw

Thesis Title: The Role of CD2AP in Actin Filament Dynamics and its Interaction with Capping Protein

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Baranski

Thesis Title: Modulation of MAP Kinase Signaling by the Chimaerin Rac GAPs

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: David R. Piwnica-Worms

Thesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Cell-Permeable Peptides for Targeted Imaging of Caspase Activity In Vivo

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan D. Gitlin

Thesis Title: Structure and function of the copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: The Role of Notch1 and Notch2 in Mammalian Kidney and Cardiovascular Development.

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of the South Pacific Alpine Plant Oreomyrrhis: Insights into Global Alpine Biogeography

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Samuel L. Stanley

Thesis Title: The Biomolecular Comparison of Entamoeba histolytica To Less-virulent Strains and Species Reveals Molecular Effectors of Virulence

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Mark S. Sands

Thesis Title: A Tale of Two Vectors: Adeno-associated Viral Gene Therapy and the Liver

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer

Thesis Title: Cloning and Characterization of R7BP, a novel protein regulating neuronal GPCR signal transduction.