2023
Jenna McGuffey
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman
Thesis Title: tRNA methyltransferases mediate Acinetobacter baumannii pathobiology
Celia McKee
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Erik S. Musiek
Thesis Title: Circadian Protein BMAL1 Regulates Astrocyte Activation and Protein Degradation in Health and Disease
Leah Mellett
Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Shabaana Abdul Khader
Thesis Title: Title: Evaluating the utility of S100A8/A9 as a non-invasive biomarker
Wei Meng
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber
Thesis Title: Mass Spectrometry Based Discovery of Tumor Antigens for Cancer Immunotherapy
Sydney Morrill
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Amanda L. Lewis
Thesis Title: The role of Gardnerella in bacterial vaginosis and facilitating colonization by Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Makenzie Norris
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Jordan G. McCall
Thesis Title: The painful problem: Improving preclinical pain assessment to probe locus coeruleus noradrenergic adaptations during chronic pain
Kevin O'Connor
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy
Thesis Title: Roles of the Transcription Factors Bc16, IRF2, and Notch2 in Myeloid Development
Sydney Oswalt Reitz
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Terrance T. Kummer
Thesis Title: Effect of age at injury on neuroinflammatory responses, microstructural outcomes, and function following traumatic brain injury
Gervette Penny
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Susan K. Dutcher
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Second-Site Non-Complementation among Motile Cilia Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Charles Pfeifer
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Rajendra S. Apte
Thesis Title: Examining the role of microglia in diabetic retinopathy: Phenotypes, mechanisms, and therapies