2025

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Michael B. Major

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

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Christopher N. Topp

Thesis Title: Understanding the role of E1OGDH1 in Root System Architecture and Nitrogen Response in Maize

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey D. Milbrandt

Thesis Title: Diverse Cell Types Establish a Pathogenic Immune Environment in Peripheral Neuropathy

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey J. Bednarski II

Thesis Title: BCLAF1 is a novel regulator of hematopoietic stem cells

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: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: John R. Cirrito

Thesis Title: Sex, Stress, and Alzheimer’s Disease : The Role of Modifiable Risk Factors in the Kinetics of Alzheimer’s Disease

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

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

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