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Linh Tran
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Ryan Gutenkunst
"Computationally Efficient, Cost-Effective, and Interpretable Machine Learning Methods for Population Genomic Inference"
Selina Kindelay
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Keith Maggert
"On the Structure, Stability and Regulation of the Ribosomal DNA in D. melanogaster"
Grace Quirk
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Michael Worobey
"SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance, Evolution, and Immune Responses: Insights for Pandemic Mitigation"
Esmat Karimi
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Henk Granzier
"Exploring Genetic Mechanisms in Nebulin-Based Nemaline Myopathy and Rhabdomyolysis"
Natalie Payne
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Melanie Culver
"Conservation Genomics and Viromics of Sonoran Desert Felids"
Baris Kerimoglu
Ph.D. 2024
Advisor: Nathan Ellis
"Unraveling Ferroptotic Cell Death in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer and Exploration of the Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway in APC Mutation-Negative Colorectal Cancer Organoids"
Lindsey Stolze
Ph.D. 2022
Advisor: Casey Romanoski
"Systems Genetics of Human Aortic Endothelial Cells"
Kiana Martinez
Ph.D. 2021
Advisor: Christina Laukaitis
"Identifying the Genetic Basis of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS)"
John Alexander Erwin
Ph.D. 2020
Advisor: Melanie Culver
"The Use of Conservation Genomics To Inform Law and Policy"
Alejandra Encinas
Ph.D. 2019
Advisor: Michael Hammer
“Understanding SCN8A and Voltage-Gated Sodium Channelopathies”
Aaron Roznowski
Ph.D. 2019
Advisor: Bentley Fane
"Structure/Function investigation of the bacteriophage φX174's DNA piloting protein"
Asher Haug-Baltzell
Ph.D. 2018
Advisor: Eric H Lyons
“Genomic Insights: Comparative Genomics in the Big Data Age”
Consuelo Dayzú Quinto
Ph.D. 2016
Advisor: Joseph Watkins
“Inferring Demographic History of Admixed Human Populations with SNP Array Data”
August Woerner
Ph.D. 2016
Advisor: Michael Hammer
"On the neutralome of great apes and nearest neighbor search in metric spaces"
Erin Vaughn
Ph.D. 2016
Advisor: Melanie Culver
“Conservation Genetics and Epigenetics of Pronghorn, Antilocapra Americana”
Joe Kunkle
Ph.D. 2015
Advisor: Andrew Capaldi
“A Systems Approach for Dissecting Integrated Signaling Pathways: TORC1 and Ras/PKA Regulation of Glucose Induced Growth Control in S. cerevisiae”
Katie Caviness
Ph.D. 2015
Advisor: Felicia Goodrum
“Complex Gene Expression and Interplay of the UL136 Protein Isoforms Influence Human Cytomegalovirus Persistence”
Robert Fitak
Ph.D. 2014
Advisor: Melanie Culver
“Conservation Genomics of the Endangered Mexican Wolf and De Novo SNP Marker Development in Pumas Using Next-Generation Sequencing”
Jason Pugh
Ph.D. 2013
Advisor: Janko Nikolich-Zugich
“Radiation and Immunity in the Context of Cytomegalovirus and Aging”
Atlantis Russ
Md, Ph.D. 2013
Advisor: Joyce A Schroeder
“HUGL and the Role of Polarity in Breast Cancer”
Matt Hart
Ph.D. 2013
Advisor: Joyce A Schroeder
“Understanding EGFR Modification, Trafficking, and the Importance of its Juxtamembrane Domain in Cancer”
Maureen Peterson
Ph.D. 2011
Advisors: Giovanni Bosco and Vicki Chandler
“Transportation Regulation: Control of Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster and Consequences of Disregulation in Human Cells”
Robert Valenzuela
Ph.D. 2011
Advisor: Murray H Brilliant
“Predictive Modeling for Complex Traits: Normal Human Pigmentation Variation”
Helen F. Smith
Ph.D. 2010
Advisor: Giovanni Bosco
“Condensin II Regulation and Function in Polyploid and Female Meiotic Cells in Drosophila Melanogaster”
Bridget Barker
Ph.D. 2009
Advisor: Steve Rounsley
“Population Genetics and Genomics of Coccidioides Immitis and Coccidides Posadasii”
Patricia Kiesler
Ph.D. 2009
Advisor: Donata Vercelli
“Functional Characterization of an Allergy-Associated Regulatory Variant at the Human IL13 Locus”
Jannine Strempel
Ph.D. 2008
Advisor: Donata Vercelli
“The Regulation of Th2 Cytokine Genes: Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis”
Holly Garriock
Ph.D. 2006
Advisor: Robert P. Erikson
“Genetics of Major Depressive Disorder in Treatment Resistance and Tryptophan Depletion”
Sally Dickinson
Ph.D. 2005
Advisor: Qin M. Chen
“Early Responses to Oxidative Stress in Heart Cells: Signals from the Cell Membrane to the Nucleus and Beyond”
Zanhua Yi
Ph.D. 2005
Advisor: Murray H. Brilliant
“Analysis of the Mouse p100H Mutation: Implications for Two Disease Related Genes: P and Sox6”
Ramanujam Radabaugh
Ph.D. 2003
Advisor: Roy R. Parker
“Oxidation and Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic in Mammalian Systems”
Joana Carneiro da Silva
Ph.D. 2000
Advisor: Margaret G. Kidwell
“Population Genetics of P Transposable Elements and their Host Species, with Emphasis on Drosophilia Willistoni and Drosophilia Sturtevanti”
Shermali Gunawardena
Ph.D. 1999
Advisor: Mary C Rykowski
“Interphase Chromosome Movement during the Midblastula Transition in Drosophila Melanogaster”
Patrick O'Grady
Ph.D. 1998
Advisor: Margaret G. Kidwell
“Phylogenetic Relationships of Files in the Family Drosophilae Inferred by Combined Analysis of Molecular and Morphological Data Sets”
Ssucheng Jeff Hsu
Ph.D. 1998
Advisor: Robert P. Erikson
“Physical and Genetic Mapping on Mouse Proximal Chromosome 18”