2013

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Antiviral programs in the brain

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Variation in Social Structure, Dispersal, and Genetic Differentiation in Response to Local Habitat Quality in a Metapopulation of the Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris collaris

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Randall J. Bateman

Thesis Title: The Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein in the Central Nervous System of Humans and Rhesus Macaques

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Steven E. Petersen

Thesis Title: Task Properties Affecting the Cingulo-Opercular Network

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob

Thesis Title: Mutations in the chaperone Hsp104 differentially propagate yeast prions

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: John A. Cooper

Thesis Title: The Function of CARMIL1 in Migrating Cells

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: John R. Pruett, Jr.

Thesis Title: Intermediate Level Mechanisms Supporting Face Perception

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Spatiotemporal Regulation of Microtubule Initiation and the Role of End-Binding 1 on
Organization of the Cortical Microtubule Cytoskeleton in Arabidopsis thaliana

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: Cooperative Tumor Suppression by ARF and p53

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Alison Goate

Thesis Title: Identification and characterization of rare variants in cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes and their contribution to substance dependence