2024

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore

Thesis Title: Investigating tumor-stroma interactions during ovarian cancer metastasis

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Maxim Artyomov

Thesis Title: Aging Drives CD8 T Cells to Functional Extremes: From Non-Specific Cytotoxicity to Tissue-Mediated Exhaustion

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio

Thesis Title: Systemic Activation of the Axon Degeneration Executioner SARM1 Triggers Acute Hyperglycemia

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan Cooper

Thesis Title: Investigating the involvement of GABAergic interneurons and a gene therapy strategy for epilepsy in CLN2 disease

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Todd A. Fehniger

Thesis Title: Elucidating the Heterogeneity and Epigenetic Determinants of Memory-like Natural Killer Cell Differentiation

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Kodi S. Ravichandran

Thesis Title: Rapid unleashing of macrophage efferocytic capacity via transcriptional pause release

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Samantha A. Morris

Thesis Title: Technology Development of High-resolution Single-cell Lineage Tracing in Cell Reprogramming Systems

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Microbial Community Composition and Assembly in Diverse Environmental Systems

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Ira M. Hall

Thesis Title: Development and application of a computational pipeline for genealogy-based trait association

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Christopher Maher

Thesis Title: Novel Bioinformatics Tools for Biomarker Discovery in Prostate Cancer