2016

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Autophagy-independent control of M. tuberculosis infection by ATG5

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Robert E. Blankenship

Thesis Title: Structure-Function Analysis of Blue Copper Proteins

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey P. Henderson

Thesis Title: Metal Selectivity and Acquisition by the Yersiniabactin Metallophore System in Escherchia coli

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Paul W. Hruz

Thesis Title: “Modulation of human and malarial glucose transporter activity by lipids and small molecules”

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: The Epigenomics of Cell Fate in Development and Disease

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: A study of local and regional gene regulatory features in the human genome

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Investigating auxin biosynthesis and its contribution to virulence by the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: Functions for Murine Norovirus Protein NS1/2 in Mice and Cells

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Sheila A. Stewart

Thesis Title: The p38MAPK-MK2-HSP27 axis regulates the mRNA stability of the pro-tumorigenic senescence-associated secretory phenotype

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Yehuda Ben-Shahar

Thesis Title: Genetic mechanisms for the maintenance of behavioral mating barriers in Drosophila