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Jiaxin Tu

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Muriah Wheelock

Thesis Title: Cortical Functional Organization in Early Childhood

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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

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Stella Varnum

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan R. Brestoff

Thesis Title: Mitochondria transfer-based therapy for the mitochondrial disease Leigh syndrome

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Chayla Vazquez

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jordan G. McCall

Thesis Title: Maternal Separation Disrupts Noradrenergic Control of Adult Coping Behaviors

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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

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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

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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”

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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"

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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)

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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