2012

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg

Thesis Title: The unconventional starvation response of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh

Thesis Title: The role of T cell receptor specificity in thymic regulatory T cell development

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber

Thesis Title: Using Mice with Conditional Deletion of the IFNγ Receptor to Identify the Cellular Targets of IFNγ during Development of Anti-Listeria Immune Responses

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Joseph M. Jez

Thesis Title: The Phosphobase Methylation Pathway in Plants, Nematodes, and Protozoan Plasmodium falciparum: Phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Role of Batf2 in host defense and CD8α+ dendritic cell development

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Virginia L. Miller

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Yersinia autotransporter proteins (Yaps) and their roles in the pathogenesis of Y. pestis

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Helen M. Piwnica-Worms

Thesis Title: Functional interactions between PAR-1b protein kinase and RNF41 E3 ubiquitin ligase

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Narendrakumar Ramanan

Thesis Title: Role of SRF-dependent Transcription in Neurite Outgrowth

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: Regulation of Toxoplasma motility by calcium-dependent protein kinases

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Narendrakumar Ramanan

Thesis Title: Serum Response Factor: A novel regulator of neuronal development and glial cell-fate specification