2024

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Roberta Faccio

Thesis Title: Deciphering Immune Suppression Mechanisms of Primary and Metastatic Breast Cancer

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Rajendra S. Apte

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Rod Photoreceptor Metabolism and Function in Health and Disease

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Thomas Papouin

Thesis Title: Elucidating the role of astrocytes in norepinephrine neuromodulation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Alexxai V. Kravitz

Thesis Title: N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) Receptors Control Calcium Signaling in Striatal Neurons to Guide Value-based Learning

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Kelly L. Bolton

Thesis Title: Germline Genetic Determinates of Cancer and Pre-Malignant Conditions

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Yao Chen

Thesis Title: Studying the Dynamics of Neuromodulators in the Brain by Fluorescence lifetime imaging

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gregory R. Bowman

Thesis Title: Understanding Sequence Determinants of Functional Protein Dynamics Using Biophysical Simulations and Experiments

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Christine E. Edwards

Thesis Title: Island hopping in the tropics: The genetics of conservation, speciation, and biogeography in the iconic flowering plant group Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Philip R. Williams

Thesis Title: Cytoplasmic and Mitochondrial Calcium Influences Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival to Axon Injury

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Oltz

Thesis Title: An Intronic Regulatory Element Limits Tcf7 Expression in Natural Killer Cells