2024

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Developing tools to study the effect of the mechanical environment on plant cell growth and morphogenesis

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Meaghan Creed

Thesis Title: Accumbal Plasticity and Associated Behavioral Adaptations in the Spared Nerve Injury Model of Chronic Neuropathic Pain.

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Epigenetic Dynamics in Zebrafish Development and Regeneration

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman

Thesis Title: Elucidating the first protective mutation from inherited Alzheimer’s Disease - Apolipoprotein E3 Christchurch (APOE3ch) and insights into APOE ligand-receptor interactions

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Rajendra S. Apte

Thesis Title: The Role of MiR-34a in Pathological Neovascularization as Seen in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Arpita Bose

Thesis Title: Sustainable plastics from plastic metabolisms: leveraging metabolically versatile purple non-sulfur bacteria for polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Christopher Maher

Thesis Title: Discovery and Functional Characterization of Proteins Encoded by Annotated Long Noncoding RNAs.

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Jason J. Yi

Thesis Title: CTCF regulates the neuronal gene expression program

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay

Thesis Title: Multi-omic analysis of phototrophic extracellular electron uptake in novel Rhodovulum spp. isolated from a marine estuary

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Tammie Benzinger

Thesis Title: Evaluating Pathological Tau Spread in Early Alzheimer Disease: Developing a Metric for Tau Positron Emission Tomography Quantifying Tau Spatial Spread