2021
Jennifer Karlow
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang
Thesis Title: Cancer Epigenome Reprogramming
George Katumba
Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey P. Henderson
Thesis Title: Copper-mediated Regulation of a Traditional
Iron Acquisition System in Uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
Catherine Knoverek
Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Gregory R. Bowman
Thesis Title: The Role of Excited States in Determining β-lactamase Function and Bacterial Fitness
Lauren Koenig
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Tammie Benzinger
Thesis Title: Influence of Aging and Cerebrovascular Disease on Neuroimaging Measures of Alzheimer Disease
Tomas Lagunas Jr
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty
Thesis Title: Massively parallel assessment of the functional effects of de novo autism spectrum disorder patient-derived genetic variants in 3’ untranslated regions
Amy Langdon
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas
Thesis Title: Gut Reactions: Quantitative Predictions of the Responses of Human Gut Microbiota to Medical Interventions
Emily Lewis
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Kristen Kroll
Thesis Title: Stem cell models to study the regulation of human cortical development and its disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Wen-Wei Liang
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: Identify Genetic and Epigenetic Abnormalities Associated with Therapeutic Vulnerability in Human Cancers
Jiayue Liu
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra
Thesis Title: Regulation of transcription factor binding specificity: From binding motifs to local DNA context
Zhikai Liu
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2021
Thesis Advisor: Martha W. Bagnall
Thesis Title: Structure and function of the vestibular circuit underlying body balance in the larval zebrafish.