2025
Jonny Mendoza-Castrejon
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Magee
Thesis Title: Mechanisms of MLL-rearranged Infant Leukemogenesis
Catie Newsom-Stewart
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Charles Kaufman
Thesis Title: Investigating the roles of SOX10 and ETV4 in melanocyte and melanoma development
Julia Pai
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Ilya E. Monosov
Thesis Title: The role of astrocytes in probabilistic decision-making
Jhan Salazar
Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos
Thesis Title: Exploring the Thermal Physiology Evolution Across Mountain Slopes
Ju Hee Son
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Siyuan Ding
Thesis Title: Rotavirus Pathogenesis and Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Exploration: Insights from Molecular and Cellular Studies
Celine St. Pierre
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang
Thesis Title: Parental guidance suggested: Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors shape allele-specific gene regulation in metabolic traits
Erik Storrs
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: Needle in the Z-Stack: Mapping the 3D Transition to Malignancy
Jessica Tooley
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Meaghan Creed
Thesis Title: Oxycodone Self-Administration Modulates Ventral Pallidal Neuron Activity and Plasticity
Nathan Wamsley
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Michael B. Major
Thesis Title: “Methods for the Acquisition and Analysis of Quantitative, Bottom-Up Protein Mass Spectrometry Data”
Daniel Western
Program: Human and Statistical Genetics
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Carlos Cruchaga
Thesis Title: Proteogenomic Analysis to Inform Casual Gene Prioritization for Human Disease