2008

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Pekosz

Thesis Title: Molecular Biology of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Accessory Proteins ORF7a and ORF7b

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Dwight A. Towler

Thesis Title: Regulation of SM22a Gene Expression by Wnt3a

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: The Role of the Aldolase: Microneme 2 protein interaction to parasite survival in Toxoplasma gondii.

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob

Thesis Title: Yeast models of intragenic and extragenic modifiers of disease-associated protein aggregation.

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Erik E. Nielsen

Thesis Title: The Roles of PI4Kβ1, RHD4, and SAC6 in Regulating PI(4)P Pools in Root Hairs and Pollen Tubes

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Katherine N. Weilbaecher

Thesis Title: The role of β3 integrin and its associating molecules in bone biology and bone metastasis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Russell N. Van Gelder

Thesis Title: Light-Dependent Degradation of Drosophila Cryptochrome

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: The role of the transcription factor Mef2c in B lymphocyte function

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Complement Directs the Priming and Effector Functions of WNV-Specific Antibody

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo

Thesis Title: Genome-Wide Discovery of Cis-Regulatory RNA Motifs and Transcriptional Regulatory Networks