2025
Rachel Jouni
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Blake C. Meyers
Thesis Title: Functional Diversification of Rice AGO1 Proteins
Seunghwan Kim
Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Thomas G. Kannampallil
Thesis Title: Action-as-Language: Using AI to Model Behavioral Patterns and Context from EHR Workflows
Abigail Kimball
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley
Thesis Title: Split Happens: Investigating molecular mechanisms of meiosis and mitosis in Cryptosporidium parvum
Melvin King
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Erik S. Musiek
Thesis Title: Examining Light-Circadian Interactions in Regulation of Amyloid Plaque Pathology
Hunter Kuhn
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: David A. Hunstad
Thesis Title: New Paradigms in E.coli Hemolysin Function and Pathogenesis
Ji-Sun Kwon
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo
Thesis Title: The Role of a lincRNA in Huntington’s Disease Neurodegeneration in Directly Reprogrammed Patient Neurons
Chia-Yun Lee
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.
Scott Lewis
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Blake C. Meyers
Thesis Title: The 3D Genome: Investigating CO2 Driven Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Arabidopsis thaliana
Chieh-Yu Liang
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond
Thesis Title: Humoral Immune Responses following Immunization with SARS-CoV-2 Variant Vaccines
Yonghao Liang
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