2006

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Guojun Bu

Thesis Title: Cellular Trafficking of the LDL Receptor Family Memberrs LPR1B and LRP9

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Eric J. Richards

Thesis Title: Natural variation and cytosine methylation landscape of a subtelomeric region in Arabidopsis thaliana

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: Notch Signaling in Cutaneous Development

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Ursula W. Goodenough

Thesis Title: Characterization of Two Minus-Specific Genes, MID and MTD1, and a Sex-Limited mutant, iso1, involved in Chlamydomonas gametogenesis

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg

Thesis Title: Study of Hemoglobin Degradation in Plasmodium falciparum and the Role of Plasmepsins in this Process

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Genetic and Physiological Variation in Cultivated and Wild Rice: Domestication, Phylogeography, and Aluminum Stress Resistance

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon

Thesis Title: Coordination of Virulence Factor Regulation and Metabolism in Streptococcus pyogenes

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Ralph S. Quatrano

Thesis Title: A Comparative Analysis of the Structure and Function of VP1/AB13 in Moss and Seed Plants

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Baranski

Thesis Title: Structure-Function Analysis of the Intracellular Surface of the Human C5a Receptor

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Applications of evolutionary theory to genotype/phenotype association studies