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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Samantha Powers

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Lucia C. Strader

Thesis Title: Regulation of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Activity

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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