2025

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Baron Chanda

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Voltage Gating in the Cyclic Nucleotide Binding Domain Channel Family

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: Jose A. Moron-Concepcion

Thesis Title: Investigating the role of Cornichon-homolog 3 (CNIH3) in opioid use, contributing risk factors, and associated neural substrates

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Christopher N. Topp

Thesis Title: Understanding the effects of genetic variation in maize and pennycress on root system architecture and their interactions with nitrogen.

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Chaperone-Usher Pathway Pili Adhesin Conformations and Inhibitors in Urinary Tract Infections

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Antibody-Mediated Protection in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey R. Millman

Thesis Title: Understanding Pancreatic Islet Stress Responses and Developing Strategies to Improve Transplantation Grafts

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

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey Magee

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of MLL-rearranged Infant Leukemogenesis

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Carl J. DeSelm

Thesis Title: “Engineering Dendritic Cells with a Chimeric Antigen Receptor for Enhanced Antitumor Function"