2025

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: Exploring the Thermal Physiology Evolution Across Mountain Slopes

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Keith B. Hengen

Thesis Title: "Robust Embeddings of Genetics, Anatomy, and State Decoded from a Neuron’s Activity"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty

Thesis Title: Optimizing Massively Parallel Reporter Assays for In Vivo Neurogenomics: Tools to Decode Enhancer Function in the Brain

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Alessandro Vindigni

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of ssDNA Gap Resection in BRCA1-proficient and deficient Cells

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Megan A. Cooper

Thesis Title: ACLY is required for NK cell effector function by regulating the epigenome

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

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

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

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Rachel M. Penczykowski

Thesis Title: Plant-microbe interactions across scales: diversity, disease, and stress in herbaceous plant communities

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Meaghan Creed

Thesis Title: Oxycodone Self-Administration Modulates Ventral Pallidal Neuron Activity and Plasticity