2025

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Cis-regulation and Evolution of Genes Involved in Immunity

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: Biophysical insights into emerging virus-host interactions

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Grant A. Challen

Thesis Title: JARID2-mediated Epigenetic Reprogramming of Human Hematopoietic Progenitors for Stem Cell Transplantation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Janine D. Bijsterbosch

Thesis Title: Parsing Heterogeneity in Depression

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Joan E. Strassmann

Thesis Title: Barriers and Breakthroughs in the Evolutuion of Aggregative Multicellularity

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Blake C. Meyers

Thesis Title: Functional Diversification of Rice AGO1 Proteins

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Characterizing the regulatory roles of pmeR in indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) responsiveness and pathogenesis in Pseudomonas syringae strain PtoDC3000.

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Pan-Cancer Universal Targets for Immunotherapy Resulted from Transposable Elements Activation

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Marco Colonna

Thesis Title: PILRα Sustains Microglial Capacity to Process Myelin in a Mouse Model of Demyelination

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Amynah Pradhan

Thesis Title: Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide and Its Receptor as Novel Therapeutic Targets for Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia