2018
Nathan Han
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon
Thesis Title: A gnotobiotic mouse model of the effects of purified food-grade plant fibers on microbial community and host metabolism
Chelsea Harp
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Gregory F. Wu
Thesis Title: Pathogenic consequences of B cell-mediated CD4 T cell activation in a MHCII-dependent model of central nervous system autoimmunity
Amy Herbert
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Kelly R. Monk
Thesis Title: The Role of Actr10 in Nervous System Development and Disease
Cynthia Holland
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Joseph M. Jez
Thesis Title: Plant metabolic pathways and regulatory networks for aromatic amino acids and hormones
Mariah Hoye
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Miller
Thesis Title: Defining Motor Neuron-Enriched microRNAs Reveals Novel Biomarkers and Genetic Causes of Motor Neuron Disease and Uncovers New Mechanisms of Glial Dysfunction in ALS
Kuan-lin Huang
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: Multi-omics Portraits of Cancer
Tyler Hughes
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Joshua Swamidass
Thesis Title: Modeling the Bioactivation and Subsequent Reactivity of Drugs
Jasreet Hundal
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Malachi Griffith
Thesis Title: Sequence analysis methods for the design of cancer vaccines that target tumor-specific mutant antigens (neoantigens)
Jeremy Huynh
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings
Thesis Title: Identification of Bhlhe40 and Irg1 as essential regulators of the inflammatory response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Reyka Jayasinghe
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: The splice is not right: splice-site-creating mutations in cancer genomes