2014
Benjamin Borgo
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: James J. Havranek
Thesis Title: Strategies for Computational Protein Design with Application to the Development of a Biomolecular Tool-kit for Single Molecule Protein Sequencing
Michael Brooks
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra
Thesis Title: Transcriptional Analysis of Reciprocal Tumor: Microenvironment Interaction in Glioblastoma
Jillian Buchan
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Christina A. Gurnett
Thesis Title: Genomic Analysis of Human Spinal Deformity and Characterization of a Zebrafish Disease Model
Tamira Butler-Likely
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg
Thesis Title: An Exported Malaria Parasite Protein Regulates Glucose Uptake During Intraerythrocytic Infection.
Matthew Cain
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer
Thesis Title: Characterization of the role of R7-RGS proteins in mammalian retina and vision
Donell Carey
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob
Thesis Title: "Structural Elucidation of [RNQ+] prions transmissible infectivity"
Travis Chapa
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Anthony R. French
Thesis Title: Murine Cytomegalovirus Encodes Proteins that Regulate Viral Late Transcription
Shuang Chen
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan
Thesis Title: Mechanisms Regulating the Self-Renewal and Differentiation of Nephron Progenitors
Jun-Jae Chung
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw
Thesis Title: Regulation of Fluid-phase Uptake in Podocytes by Albumin-associated Free Fatty Acids
Sarah DeVos
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Miller
Thesis Title: Antisense Reduction of the Protein Tau Attenuates Neuronal Hyperexcitability and Permits Clearance of Intraneuronal Tau Accumulations in vivo