2010
Vineet Menachery
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib
Thesis Title: The Impact of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 on the Immune Response to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection
Carlos Michel
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Jean E. Schaffer
Thesis Title: Small nucleolar RNAs U32a, U33 and U35 are critical mediators of liptoxic and oxidative stress
Tracy Nicholson
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: David A. Hunstad
Thesis Title: OmpA of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Promotes Intracellular Pathogenesis, Resistance to Cathelicidin, and an IL-17/IL-23 Based Inflammatory Response Permissive for Persistent Infection
Elizabeth Norgard
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: James M. Cheverud
Thesis Title: The Genetic Architecture and Developmental Bases for Long Bone Length Quantitative Trait Loci in Mice.
Sunday Oladipupo
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey M. Arbeit
Thesis Title: Determination of HIF-1-induced targets that regulate adult neovascularization
Mary Olanich
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber
Thesis Title: Elucidation of Nucleophosmin Translational Regulation.
Brett Olsen
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Nathan A. Baker
Thesis Title: An Examination of Oxysterol Effects on Membrane Bilayers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ermira Pazolli
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Sheila A. Stewart
Thesis Title: Function and regulation of senescent stromal-derived osteopontin
Jevon Plunkett
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Louis J. Muglia
Thesis Title: Genetic Influences on Preterm Birth
Christine Ratajczak
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Louis J. Muglia
Thesis Title: The Role of the Clock Gene Bmal1 in Female fertility and Parturition