2016
Jordan Teisher
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal
Thesis Title: Systematics and Evolution of the Arundinoideae and Micrairoideae (Poaceae)
Lauren Walker
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio
Thesis Title: Defining the role of MAPK signaling in the Axonal Degeneration pathway
Amy Wilfert
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Donald Franklin Conrad
Thesis Title: Making sense of singletons: the n-of-one problem in human genetics
Chao Wu
Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman
Thesis Title: Structure and dynamics of a small mutidrug resistance transporter
Mingchao Xie
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: Discovery and functional implication of genetic alterations associated with clonal hematopoietic expansion
Sree Chandana Yaddanapudi
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber
Thesis Title: ARF tumor suppressor regulates Drosha nucleolar localization and rRNA processing activity
Zeynep Yurtsever
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Brett
Thesis Title: Mechanism of Calcium-dependent Chloride Channel Activation by the Secreted Regulator CLCA1
Rong Zeng
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Veis
Thesis Title: Role of Mitochondria Biogenesis and Dynamics Regulating Osteoclast-mediate Bone Resorption
Chi Zhang
Program: Computational Biology
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: James J. Havranek
Thesis Title: Engineering Cre recombinase for genome editing
Tianxiao Zhang
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2016
Thesis Advisor: John P. Rice
Thesis Title: Gene Association Mapping in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing and Systems Biology