2008

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Temporal Changes in Population Genetic Dynamics of the Eastern Collard Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris collaris, in Response to Forest Fire Management

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Timothy E. Holy

Thesis Title: Sulfated Steroids as Natural Ligands of Mouse Pheromone-Sensing Neurons

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Nancy L. Baenziger

Thesis Title: Role of MapK Cascades p38, JNK and ERK in Modulating Neurite Outgrowth in a Human Neuronal Cooling Stress Model

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Eduardo A. Groisman

Thesis Title: Evolution of a Transcriptional Regulatory System Controlling Virulence I Enteric Bacteria

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J.H. Ackerman

Thesis Title: Re-evaluation of Transcytolemmal water exchange

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Anthony J. Muslin

Thesis Title: Requirement for Grb2 and p38a Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase in Atherosclerosis and Neointima Formation

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi

Thesis Title: Assembly and Function of Syanobacterial Photosystem II

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Michael Lovett

Thesis Title: A Systems Biology of Early Mouse Inner Ear Organogenesis: Gene Expression Patterns, Networks, and Pathways

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan D. Gitlin

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Biosynthesis of the Human Multicopper Oxidases

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: James M. Cheverud

Thesis Title: The evolution and development of tetrapod long bones