2013

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Craig A. Micchelli

Thesis Title: Dissecting the mechanisms and the nutritional requirements of the expansion of normal and tumorigenic intestinal stem cell lineages in Drosophila melanogaster

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Justin C. Fay

Thesis Title: Dysfunctional gene regulation of the meiotic program in an interspecific yeast hybrid

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: FXR1 regulates Ras translation to drive oncogenic transformation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Identify and Characterize Novel Interferon-Stimulated Genes During West Nile Virus Infection

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Paul M. Allen

Thesis Title: The role of a positively selecting self peptide in the thymus and in the periphery

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: The Diversity of Quantitative Trait Loci in Yeast Sporulation Efficiency

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Rohit V. Pappu

Thesis Title: Quantification of Conformational Heterogeneity and its Role in Protein Aggregation and Unfolding

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

Thesis Title: Characterization of the placenta-specific 8.1 gene function during zebrafish embryogenesis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: J. William Harbour

Thesis Title: The Role of Melanocyte Differentiation in Uveal Melanoma Progression

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Characterization of Human Gut Microbiota Dynamics Using Model Communities in Gnotobiotic Mice