2006

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: Virus Non-Specific B Cells Control Chronic -herpesvirus Infection

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Pekosz

Thesis Title: The Influenza A Virus M2 Protein is a Critical Mediator of Both Virus Assembly and Disassembly”

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Sean R. Eddy

Thesis Title: Screens for non-coding RNA and strange life

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Steven J. Mennerick

Thesis Title: Action Potential Initiation and Propagation in Unmyelinated Hippocampal Pyramidal Cell Axons

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Wojciech A. Swat

Thesis Title: Elucidation of Vav Function in T Lymphocyte Development and Activation

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: The Assembly Mechanisms of Uropathogenic Esherichia coli Pili and Its Force-Induced Unraveling

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: Rational and Viral Exploitations of the MHC Fold

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Shin-ichiro Imai

Thesis Title: Regulation of Pancreatic β Cell Function by Mammalian Sirt1

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: mTor Signaling Sets the Rate of Ribosome Export and Protein Synthesis Through Incresed Nucleophosmin Translation and Stability

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Understanding the role of tvrR in virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000 virulence