2025

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan A. Myers

Thesis Title: Montane β-diversity: Biodiversity through Space and Time in Earth’s Most Biodiverse Regions

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Robert Campbell

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Regulates ITAM-Dependent Platelet function

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: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Structure and function of type 1 pilus assembly machinery in uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: John P. Rice

Thesis Title: Biomarker and age at onset endophenotypes offer new insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease

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: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Joel D. Schilling

Thesis Title: Dissecting Macrophage Metabolism in Metabolic Liver Disease