2017

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo

Thesis Title: Brain Enriched MicroRNAs Open the Neurogenic Potential of Adult Human Fibroblasts

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Understanding the Relationship Between Hosts and Their Microbiome

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Obi L. Griffith

Thesis Title: Knowledge Driven Approaches and Machine Learning Improve the Identification of Clinically Relevant Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomics

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Sergej Djuranovic

Thesis Title: Mechanism of Gene Regulation by Coding PolyA Tracks

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Kelle H. Moley

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial damage accumulation in oocytes - a potential link between maternal obesity and increased cardiometabolic disease risk in offspring.

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Beverley

Thesis Title: The Role of RNA Interference in the Control of Leishmania RNA virus 1 Infection

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Erika Pearce

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo

Thesis Title: Quantitative profiling of cooperative transcription factors pairing on hundreds of sequences in parallel

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

Thesis Title: Regulation of Early Zebrafish Embryogenesis by Calcium Signaling and Dachsous1b Cadherin

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: David Wang

Thesis Title: Exploring Host-Virus Interactions in Caenorhabditis Nematodes