Graduation Year

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: C. Robert R. Cloninger

Thesis Title: "Genetic Linkage Mapping and Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms of the Human Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Genes" Short: RFLP Linkage Disequilibrium Study

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow

Thesis Title: Type I Interferon Regulation of Chikungunya Virus Pathogenesis

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "Depolarization-activated K+ Currents in the Functioning of Callosal-projecting Visual Cortical Neurons"

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Roy R. Curtiss

Thesis Title: Motility and Adherence as Salmonella typhimurium Virulence Factors: The Pathogenesis of fla, mot, and fim Mutants in Murine Typhoid Fever.

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: Douglas E. Berg

Thesis Title: "Tn5 Insertion Specificity and Plasmid Supercoiling"

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: Biophysically-informed Models of Heterogeneity in Transcription Factor Activity

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: The Role of Apoptosis in y-herpesvirus 68 infection

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Genetic and Physiological Variation in Cultivated and Wild Rice: Domestication, Phylogeography, and Aluminum Stress Resistance

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio

Thesis Title: Glial K+ buffering and seizure susceptibility

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