2021

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Transcriptional Control of Dendritic Cell Function and Development

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Christina A. Gurnett

Thesis Title: Genetics of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Disorders

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Paul M. Allen

Thesis Title: Homeostatic T Cell Receptor Interactions with Self-Peptide Tune CD4+ T Cell Function

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: How alphaviruses enter cells: a tale of two receptors

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Scott A. Mangan

Thesis Title: The Role of Soil Microbes & Plant Relatedness in Improving Tallgrass Prairie Restoration and Rare Plant Reintroduction

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Jacqueline E. Payton

Thesis Title: Defining the epigenetic and transcriptional regulatory mechanisms by which hRSV NS1 alters host transcriptional response

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Trust Your Gut (Microbes) While Traveling

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: The evolutionary history of Camelina (Brassicaceae) and domestication of the biofuel crop, C. sativa (L.) Crantz

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Jose A. Moron-Concepcion

Thesis Title: Phenotyping and preclinical meta-analysis of behavioral outcomes from Complete Freund’s Adjuvant-induced inflammatory pain in the rodent hind-paw.

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Ira M. Hall

Thesis Title: Association of Structural Variation (SV) with Cardiometabolic Traits in Finns