2012
Beverly Strong
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Emil R. Unanue
Thesis Title: Type B Presentation from HEL Protein in the Context of Inflammation
Jung Hee Suh
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey H. Miner
Thesis Title: Genetic and Molecular Analyses of Laminin-521 in the Kidney Glomerular Basement Membrane
William Vanderheyden
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Shaw
Thesis Title: The Role of Extra Cellular Signal-Regulated Kinase in Sleep and Plasticity in Drosophila
Luis Alberto Vega
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon
Thesis Title: Organization of the Streptococcal ExPortal and its Interaction with Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Hsi-Ming Wang
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Sarah C.R. Elgin
Thesis Title: Silencing through heterochromatin formation: The role of Piwi in transposon targeting
Lindsay Wieczorek
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Louis J. Muglia
Thesis Title: Calcium-Stimulated Adenylyl Cyclases are Critical Modulators of Fear Learning and Experience-Dependent Plasticity
Chiao-Wen Yang
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Emil R. Unanue
Thesis Title: Neutrophils Influence the Magnitude and Spread of Immune Responses to Protein Antigens by a Prostaglandin Mediated Process
Kai-Chien Yang
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne
Thesis Title: Cardiac PI3Kα Signaling and K+ Channel Regulation in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure
Wei-Jen Yankelevich
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Ted H. Hansen
Thesis Title: The Function of MHC-Related protein 1 and Mucosal-Associated Invariant T cells in the Immune System
Myeong Jin Yoon
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2012
Thesis Advisor: Shin-ichiro Imai
Thesis Title: The pathophysiological importance of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase as a key NAD biosynthesis enzyme in metabolic homeostasis