2025

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ali H. Ellebedy

Thesis Title: Defining B cell Responses to Emerging Viral Pathogens

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Tao Che

Thesis Title: Exploring the Structure, Dynamics, and Pharmacology of Opioid Receptors

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Samantha A. Morris

Thesis Title: Single-cell analysis of clonal and transcriptional dynamics during direct reprogramming

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Robert W. Gereau

Thesis Title: Parapinopsin: A Photoswitchable Inhibitory GPCR for Two-Photon Optogenetics

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Matthew J. Walter

Thesis Title: Targeting Nonsense-Mediated RNA Decay in Splicing Factor Mutant Myeloid Malignancies

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Michael B. Major

Thesis Title: Disrupting NRF2-Driven Cancer Biology through One-Carbon Metabolism Inhibition

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Charles Kaufman

Thesis Title: Tank to Bedside: How insights from zebrafish sox10 enhancers inform our understanding of human melanoma drug resistance

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Understanding strain-level dynamics in gut commensal-pathogen-host interactions

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Abby M. Green

Thesis Title: APOBEC3A drives ovarian cancer metastasis by altering epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay

Thesis Title: The Role of the cGAS-STING Sensing Pathway in HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections