2018
Britney Johnson
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Gaya K. Amarasinghe
Thesis Title: Marburg Virus is Not Ebola Virus:
Biochemical and Structural Insights into Mechanisms of Immune Evasion
Sean Johnson
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Shin-ichiro Imai
Thesis Title: The Role of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide and NAMPT-Mediated NAD+ Biosynthesis in the Regulation of Age-Related Cognitive Phenotypes
Wendell Jones Jr.
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Steven Bassnett
Thesis Title: The role of fibrillin-1 in eye development and ocular disease
Scott Karney-Grobe
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio
Thesis Title: A high-content screen identifies HSP90 as a component of axon injury signaling.
Shamika Ketkar-Kulkarni
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Timothy J. Ley
Thesis Title: Integrated Epigenomic Studies of Dnmt3a Deficient Hematopoietic Cells
Sanghyun Kim
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Matthew J. Walter
Thesis Title: The role of H2afy in normal and malignant hematopoiesis
Dana King
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen
Thesis Title: Grammar and variation, understanding how cis-regulatory information is encoded in mammalian genomes
Elvin Lauron
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama
Thesis Title: Viral MHCI inhibition evades tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cell (TRM) responses, but not local antigen-driven TRM formation
Eugene Lee
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Conrad C. Weihl
Thesis Title: The Ugly Sequestosome1: The role of SQSTM1 in autophagy and multisystem proteinopathy
Vivian Lee
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Robert P. Mecham
Thesis Title: Lysyl Oxidase Mutations in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection