2023

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: Iterative Machine Learning of a Cis-Regulatory Grammar

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Josh L. Morgan

Thesis Title: Characterization of Subcellular Functional Domains in the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 3-Expressing Retinal Amacrine Cell using Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Alex S. Holehouse

Thesis Title: “Understanding the chemical context of interactions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins"

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Carolina Lopez

Thesis Title: When stress strikes! Role of copyback viral genomes in activating cellular stress responses during pneumovirus and paramyxovirus infection

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Bart

Thesis Title: A dynamic duo: Investigating the
interactions between Xanthomonas
citri pv. malvacearum and
Pseudomonas syringae

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Circumventing drug resistance with small molecule inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey P. Henderson

Thesis Title: "Function and regulation of virulence-associated siderophores in uropathogenic Enterobacterales"

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan A. Myers

Thesis Title: "Biotic Interactions and the Maintenance of Biodiversity"

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Investigating the role of BHLHE40 in host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and myeloid cell development

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman

Thesis Title: The role of phenylacetic acid (PAA) catabolism in Acinetobacter physiology