2009

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Batf regulates previously unknown AP-1 target genes to control TH17 differentiation

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Phyllis I. Hanson

Thesis Title: Role and Regulation of ESCRT-III in Multivesicular Body Biogenesis

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Moerlein

Thesis Title: Evaluation of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor as a Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Target for Tumor Aggression

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Erik E. Nielsen

Thesis Title: The A. thaliana Rab GTPase RabA4d and its Effector Protein PI-4Kβ1 Are Required for Normal Pollen Tube Tip Growth While the Novel RabA4b Effector PUB13 is Important for Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae DC3000

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Jacques U. Baenziger

Thesis Title: Functional Significance of Glycoprotein Clearance by the Asialoglycoprotein Receptor and the Mannose/GalNAc-4-SO4 Receptor

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Metagenomic studies of the obese and lean gut microbiome

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra

Thesis Title: Methods to Identify Genetic and Epigenetic Mutations in Cancer

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Rohit V. Pappu

Thesis Title: Probing the Early Stages of Polyglutamine Aggregation with Computational Methods

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Mark Johnston

Thesis Title: "Calling Cards” for DNA-Binding Proteins

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: David A. Harris

Thesis Title: A Nine Amino Acid Domain is Essential for the Toxicity of a Mutant Prion Protein