2022
Juan Macias
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Heather A. Lawson
Thesis Title: Genetic Effects Mediated Through Epistatic Networks Onto Metabolic Traits
Austin McCullough
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Tammie Benzinger
Thesis Title: Understanding the Influence of Individual-level Sources of Pathology Variation on Neuroimaging Measures of Alzheimer Disease
James Medina
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Joan E. Strassmann
Thesis Title: Cooperation and Conflict in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and its Paraburkholderia endosymbionts
Kari Miller
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth S. Haswell
Thesis Title: Insights Into the Non-Osmoregulatory Function of a Pollen-Specific Mechanosensitive Ion Channel
Sabin Nettles
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Harrison W. Gabel
Thesis Title: Elucidating molecular mechanisms governing the unique neuronal transcriptome.
Kayla Nygaard
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty
Thesis Title: Extensive Behavioral Phenotyping of Williams Syndrome Locus Relevant Mouse Models to Assess Contributions of Oxytocin and Gtf2ird1
Evin Padhi
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Tychele N. Turner
Thesis Title: Analysis of Regulatory Element Variation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Leonard Rogers
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Brian Van Tine
Thesis Title: Canonical and noncanonical mechanisms of resistance to arginine starvation in cancer
Matthew Rosene
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Celeste Marie Karch
Thesis Title: Defining the role of rare genetic variants that drive risk and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease
Cameron Sargent
Program: Biochemistry
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Fuzhong Zhang
Thesis Title: Harnessing synthetic biology to create novel protein materials for applications on the nano and macro scales.