2022
Leo Volkov
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Joseph C. Corbo
Thesis Title: Mechanisms regulating photoreceptor subtype specification and chromophore utilization in zebrafish.
Forrest Walker
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Megan T. Baldridge
Thesis Title: Characterizing the role of interferons in host-microbe interactions in disseminated murine norovirus infection and steady-state hematopoiesis
Patricia Walker
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of High Light Tolerance for a Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium
Michael Ward
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Gregory R. Bowman
Thesis Title: Combining computer simulations and deep learning to understand and predict protein structural dynamics
Marshall Wedger
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen
Thesis Title: Weedy rice as a model system for the study of microevolutionary interactions in agricultural contexts
Julia Whittle
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Christina A. Gurnett
Thesis Title: Generation, Characterization, and Treatment of Functional Zebrafish Models for Musculoskeletal Disorders
Yige Wu
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: Multi-Omics Investigation of Tumor Heterogeneity, Oncogenic Signaling, and Treatment Response in human cancers
Siqi Zhao
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen
Thesis Title: Single-Cell Massively Parallel Reporter Assays
Annie Zheng
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Thesis Title: Characterization of large-scale functional network organization in the human hippocampus.
Jiang Zhu
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2022
Thesis Advisor: Conrad C. Weihl
Thesis Title: VCP: a gatekeeper for intracellular proteopathic seeding