2010

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Jason C. Mills

Thesis Title: Transcriptional Regulation of Zymogenic (Chief) Cell Differentiation and Maintenance in Adult Mouse Stomach

Program: Quantitative Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Howard McLeod

Thesis Title: Genetic Analysis of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling Pathway

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Justin C. Fay

Thesis Title: Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation between Winemaking and Wild Strains of the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Paul H. Taghert

Thesis Title: The Convergence of PDF signaling and CRYPTOCHROME in the neuronal network underlying Drosophila circadian behavior.

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Paul Schlesinger

Thesis Title: FCS Analysis of Pore Formation by the Hyman Protein Bax in Lipid Membranes

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Fanxin Long

Thesis Title: The Function of Hedgehog Signaling in Embryonic and Postnatal Bone Development

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob

Thesis Title: Mechanism of yeast prion protein aggregation and strain formation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon

Thesis Title: Catabolite sensing regulatory pathways in Group A streptococcus control virulence and host-pathogen interactions

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio

Thesis Title: The Role of the Novel Drosophila Gene Ema for Endosomal Maturation and Autophagy

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Sean R. Eddy

Thesis Title: Novel Algorithms for Structural Alignment of Non-coding RNAs