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Jenna McGuffey

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman

Thesis Title: tRNA methyltransferases mediate Acinetobacter baumannii pathobiology

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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

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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

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Wei Meng

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber

Thesis Title: Mass Spectrometry Based Discovery of Tumor Antigens for Cancer Immunotherapy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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