2016
Sarah Ackerman
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Kelly R. Monk
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of myelination, it's all about the matrix
Alejandro Akrouh
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner
Thesis Title: Circuit Mechanisms of Spontaneous and Light Evoked Activity in the Retina
Zeenat Asghar
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Kelle H. Moley
Thesis Title: Health implications of excess fructose consumption and increased risk for offspring diseases
Gayle Bentley
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Fuzhong Zhang
Thesis Title: Engineering Escherichia coli towards the production of branched-chain advanced biofuels
Hirak Biswas
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore
Thesis Title: Role of SNAIL1 in cardiac fibrosis
Laura Blanton
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon
Thesis Title: Disrupted Gut Microbiota Development and Childhood Undernutrition
Chun Chou
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Takeshi Egawa
Thesis Title: Regulation of durable adaptive immune response by the c-MYC-AP4 transcriptional cascade
Victor Cortez
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Marco Colonna
Thesis Title: Characterization of Salivary Gland Innate Lymphoid Cells
Tracy Douglas
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Joan E. Strassmann
Thesis Title: Population structure and mating dynamics in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
Tara Enders
Program: Plant Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Lucia C. Strader
Thesis Title: Arabidopsis MAP KINASE1 influences auxin-responsive cell expansion