2025
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
Anastasiia Onyshchenko
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Ivan Baxter
Thesis Title: Predicting, culturing and characterizing beneficial and detrimental strains associated with plant phenotypes
Omar Osorio
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Alexander-Brett
Thesis Title: Mechanism of IL-33 secretion in chronic airway disease
Julia Pai
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Ilya E. Monosov
Thesis Title: The role of astrocytes in probabilistic decision-making
Rachel Paolini
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: George Souroullas
Thesis Title: Elucidating the Role of PBAF Chromatin Remodeling Subunit Arid2 in B Cell Development
Evan Pardue
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman
Thesis Title: Understanding Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Sumitkumar Patel
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Maria S. Remedi
Thesis Title: Understanding loss of Beta-cell identity and progression of Diabetes in polygenic mouse models of T2DM
Yangqing Peng
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Meng Wu
Thesis Title: Title: Balancing Defense and Tolerance: Complement-Mediated Pathogen Protection and Commensal Microbial Antigen-Specific Regulatory T Cell Responses in the Gut
Alexandria Quillin
Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Heemstra
Thesis Title: Leveraging Biomolecules to Illuminate the Landscape of RNA in Cells and Tissues
Kely Rubiano Cardona
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg
Thesis Title: The role of the poly-asparagine repeat in the histone acetyltransferase protein, PfGCN5