2018
Apurwa Sharma
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Marc I. Diamond
Thesis Title: Tau Monomer Encodes Strains
Yang Shi
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman
Thesis Title: The role of Apolipoprotein E in regulating tau pathogenesis and neurodegeneration in a tauopathy mouse model
Michal Skowyra
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Phyllis I. Hanson
Thesis Title: Endolysosomal damage and repair: mechanism and implications for health and disease
Steven Snyder
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Stephen T. Oh
Thesis Title: The Role of NFκB in the Pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Calvin Stephens
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: David T. Curiel
Thesis Title: Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing for Hemophilia B
Kimberley Sukhum
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Bruce A. Carlson
Thesis Title: The costs of a big brain: how region scaling and energetic costs influence brain size evolution in weakly electric African fishes (Mormyridae)
Nai-Wen Tien
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner
Thesis Title: Development and Function of Retinal Ganglion Cell Circuits
Chak Foon Tso
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Erik D. Herzog
Thesis Title: Astrocytes Regulate Daily Rhythms in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) and Behavior
Robb Welty
Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall
Thesis Title: Kinetic Modeling of RNA Folding and Allostery
Alissa Young
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow
Thesis Title: A Recombinant Virus and Reporter Mouse System to Study Chronic Chikungunya Virus Pathogenesis.