2019
Ashley Nielsen
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Bradley L. Schlaggar
Thesis Title: Typical and atypical development of the brain's functional network architecture.
Yerdos Ordabayev
Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman
Thesis Title: Mechanism of Activation of UvrD Helicase by a Processivity Factor MutL
Elizabeth Ostrander
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Grant A. Challen
Thesis Title: The role of epigenetic mutations in the clonal evolution of hematopoietic stem cells
Manishi Pandey
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo
Thesis Title: Systematic Investigation of Alternative Splicing and Conserved Spliceosome Factors in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Ji Woong Park
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Timothy R. Peterson
Thesis Title: A molecular and computational approach to investigate understudied human genes
Lindsay Parnell
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Indira U. Mysorekar
Thesis Title: Spatial and Functional Characterization of Microbial Residents in the Human Placenta
Zhen Peng
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Yehuda Ben-Shahar
Thesis Title: The Evolutionary and Functional Roles of Synonymous Codon Usage in Eukaryotes
Anne Phillips
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Bart
Thesis Title: Phylogenetic and Genomic Characterization of the Host-Pathogen Arms Race Between Bacterial Pathogens and Gossypium hirsutum
Samantha Powers
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Lucia C. Strader
Thesis Title: Regulation of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Activity
Caitlin Purman
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2019
Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Oltz
Thesis Title: Determining the local transcriptional response to DNA double-strand breaks