2010
Haluk Lacin
Program: Developmental Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath
Thesis Title: Transcriptional regulation of Neuronal Differentiation in the Drosophila Central Nervous System
Stephanie Lathrop
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh
Thesis Title: The Role of TCR Specificity in the Regulation of the Immune Response to Self and Commensal Antigens
Sun Joo Lee
Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Nathan A. Baker
Thesis Title: Determination of the Structure and Functional Mechanisms of Perfluorocarbon-based Nanoemulsion Particles Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations at Multiple Length Scales
Shana Leopold
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Phillip I. Tarr
Thesis Title: Phylogenetic Illumination of Escherichia coli by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Interrogation
Xinyi Lin
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob
Thesis Title: Role of Sua5 in tRNA modification and translational regulation
Chia-Chen Liu
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Guojun Bu
Thesis Title: LRP6 in Wnt Signaling and Breast Cancer Tumorigenesis
N'Goundo Magassa
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon
Thesis Title: Characterization of Streptolysin O as the Translocator for the Cytolysin-Mediated Translocation Process in Streptococcus pyogenes
Caroline Maynard
Program: Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall
Thesis Title: Unique features of polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) RNA recognition motifs (RRMs): Insight into protein motions, RNA binding and downhill folding
Simren Mehta
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley
Thesis Title: The role of Actin Depolymerizing Factor in regulating actin dynamics in Toxoplasma gondii.
Artem Melnykov
Program: Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall
Thesis Title: Advances in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with applications to studies of macromolecular interactions and folding of RNA hairpins