2025
Jiaxin Tu
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Muriah Wheelock
Thesis Title: Cortical Functional Organization in Early Childhood
Ryan Valdez
Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin
Thesis Title: Direct and indirect factors render LPS essential to Gram-negative bacterial physiology
Stella Varnum
Program: Immunology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jonathan R. Brestoff
Thesis Title: Mitochondria transfer-based therapy for the mitochondrial disease Leigh syndrome
Chayla Vazquez
Program: Neurosciences
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jordan G. McCall
Thesis Title: Maternal Separation Disrupts Noradrenergic Control of Adult Coping Behaviors
Daniel Veronese Paniagua
Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey R. Millman
Thesis Title: Investigating the interplay of genetic factors and viral infections in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis
Hung Vuong
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay
Thesis Title: Efficient packaging of HIV-1 genomes via recognition of its adenosine-rich content by a heterologous RNA-binding domain
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”
Tianjiao Wang
Program: Computational and Systems Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Li Ding
Thesis Title: "Advancing Precision Treatment of Multiple Myeloma with Single-Cell and Spatial Immune Profiling"
Anna Wassel
Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Graduation Year: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Jonathan A. Myers
Thesis Title: How do dominant tree species affect forest herb communities: the peculiar case of pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
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