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| Aguirre | Nicholas | Major Professor: Keith Baar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in skeletal muscle plasticity, as it relates to exercise, nutrition and aging. The role of the amino acid leucine and its transporter in muscle growth and development | ||||||
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| Aldredge | Danielle | Major Professor: Carlito Lebrilla | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Elucidation of the Structure of N-Linked Glycans in Human Serum for Rapid Identification | ||||||
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| Al-Kass | Natascia | Major Professor: Rebecca Parales | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Evolution of nitroaromatic compound degradation pathways of bacteria and characterizing the catabolic flexibility of these pathways | ||||||
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| Anderson | Johnathon | Major Professor: Jan Nolta | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biomedical/translational research - cell signaling, bioinformatics, non-coding RNAs and proteomics | ||||||
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| Anderson | Leif | Major Professor: Alex Revzin | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in human embryonic stem cell therapy, specifically working on differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to functionaly hepatocytes using printed growth factors on heparin hydrogels | ||||||
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| Anderson | Lisa | Major Professor: Annaliese Franz | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Chemical genetics and NMR spectroscopy of microalgae lipids for biofuel applications | ||||||
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| Andreozzi | Erica | Major Professor: Angie Louie | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Mulitmodal Imaging Techniques to Investigate the Progression of Alzheimers' Disease | ||||||
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| Anthony | Liz | Major Professor: Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Transient Expression of Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes for Biofuel Applications | ||||||
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| Arzola | Lucas | Major Professor: Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Transient Expression of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins and Vaccines Using Agroinfiltration in Nicotiana benthamiana | ||||||
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| Avanzino | Brian | Major Professor: Chris Fraser | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The role of viral genomes in the recruitment of eukaryotic ribosomes | ||||||
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| Azimi | Mina | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in studying the transcriptional control involved in gene regulation/ development and relating problems with this process to disease | ||||||
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| Bailus | Barbara | Major Professor: David Segal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Toward Molecular Therapy for Angelman Syndrome | ||||||
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| Bakke | Jesse | Major Professor: Fawaz Haj | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Nutritional Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Tyrosine phosphorylation or deficiency of Pyruvate Kinase M2 promotes a brown-fat-like phenotype in white adipocytes | ||||||
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| Banda | Douglas | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and most recently, nucleic acid chemistry | ||||||
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| Barrozo | Roberto | Major Professor: Jay Solnick | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Role of Helicobacter pylori in modulating host immune response | ||||||
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| Beck | Kristen | Major Professor: Ian F. Korf | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cancer biology, specifically breast cancer and the EGFR pathway | ||||||
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| Beitel | Christopher | Major Professor: Richard Michelmore | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Working on new methods for genome and metagenome assembly and analysis, including haplotype phasing and structural variation typing | ||||||
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| Benn | Geoffrey | Major Professor: Katie Dehesh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Identifying the biochemical and molecular components of plant primary stress response networks | ||||||
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| Bjornson | Marta | Major Professor: Abhaya Dandekar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Horticulture & Agronomy | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Dissection of General and Phytophthora Pathogen-specific Plant Stress Responses | ||||||
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| Blain-Hartung | Matthew | Major Professor: J. Clark Lagarias | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Regulating metabolism and gene expression through cyanobacteria light sensors and photochemistry | ||||||
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| Blanco-Ulate | Bárbara | Major Professor: Ann Powell | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Developmentally Regulated Susceptibility of Tomato Fruit to Botrytis cinerea | ||||||
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| Bokulich | Nicholas | Major Professor: David Mills | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food Science & Technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in how foods acta as delivery vectors for beneficial microorganisms, and specifically how the microbial ecology of fermented foods act as sources for microorganisms beneficial for human health | ||||||
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| Bolus | Stephen | Major Professor: Ioannis Stergiopoulos | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in understanding, at the atomic level, the protein interactions between fungal effectors and cognate plant resistance proteins | ||||||
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| Boosalis | Casey | Major Professor: Randen Patterson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in developing techniques to extend the length of particular neuronal cultures in aims of providing a new tool for long term neuronal studies that mirrors in vivo studies with in vitro cultures | ||||||
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| Brown | Brandon | Major Professor: Heike Wulff | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology & Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in drug discovery and the discovery of potential therapeutics in the area of cancer and other genetic disorders. Interest in sickle cell research | ||||||
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| Burch | Andrew | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in synthetic biology and molecular pathways | ||||||
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| Burke | Candace | Major Professor: Lisa Miller | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: IL-12 induced modulation of the asthmatic response in an infant non-human primate model | ||||||
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| Butterfield | Timothy | Major Professor: Abhaya Dandekar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Biosynthesis and Anti-Pest Activites of Hydrolysable Tannins | ||||||
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| Caddell | Daniel | Major Professor: Pamela Ronald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in understanding how stress response pathways can be manipulated to engineer crops capable of producing high yields while reducing the use of pesticides | ||||||
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| Careaga | Milo | Major Professor: Paul Ashwood | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Autoimmunity and neuroimmunology | ||||||
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| Castillo | Elenor | Major Professor: Florence Negre- Zakharov | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Investigating the Role of Sulfur Volatiles in Repelling Psyllids; A Crop Pathogen Vector | ||||||
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| Castillo | Patricia | Major Professor: Charles Bevins | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: A Transgenic Approach to Defining Alpha-Defensin Function | ||||||
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| Ceballos | Shannon | Major Professor: Wolf Heyer | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Elucidating the Role of Rad54 in Homologous Recombination | ||||||
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| Chaffee | Nicole | Major Professor: David | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Bio Organic Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Molecular biology, studying enzymes involved in oncology | ||||||
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| Chang | Astra | Major Professor: Jan Nolta | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Comparative Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: A Targeted Approach Against Metastatic Cancer Stem Cells | ||||||
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| Chang | Pauline JoJo | Major Professor: Richard Kiehl | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Molecular electronics and neural/nonlinear networks | ||||||
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| Chapman | Christopher | Major Professor: Erkin Seker | ||||
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| Graduate Program: : Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Main interests are in biosensors, controls, and electrochemistry | ||||||
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| Chen | Arnold | Major Professor: Tingrui Pan | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Reconfigurable microfluidics for biomedical applications | ||||||
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| Chen | Xiguang (Ray) | Major Professor: Ruihong Zhang | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Development of an Integrated Bioconversion System to Convert Organic Residuals from Winery Industry to Bioenergy and Biofertilzer Products | ||||||
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| Chiu | Sum Ying (Annie) | Major Professor: Lifeng Xu | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Chromatin Remodeler RSF in Telomere Maintenance | ||||||
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| Chong | Leelyn | Major Professor: Bo Lonnerdal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Nutrition | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in nutrional genomics, chronic disease and nutrition | ||||||
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| Chung | Dong hee | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in Metalboic engineering and hope to use this tool to synthesize useful molecules with gene altered microoganisms | ||||||
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| Clark | Elizabeth | Major Professor: Dan Starr | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in understanding molecular causes of disease and aging in humans | ||||||
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| Cooper | Caitlin | Major Professor: James Murray | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Animal Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Effects of consumption of recombinant human lactoferrin and/or lysozyme produced by transgenic ruminants on the porcine GI tract | ||||||
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| Crockett | Stephanie | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Comparative Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Cytoprotective Effects of System Xc- in Neural Stem Cells | ||||||
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| Davis | Destiny | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in how plants interact with their environment physiologically as well as on a molecular basis | ||||||
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| Davis | Ryan | Major Professor: Gervay-Hague | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Study of alpha/beta-glycosyl iodides stereoselectivity in glycosylations: Synthesis of immunostaimulatory steroidal glycosides | ||||||
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| Dawson | Matthew | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biostatistics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in doing applied statistics work on biological and health related issues. | ||||||
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| De Jesus | Nicole | Major Professor: Crystal Ripplinger | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the characterization of inflammatory cells after myocardial infarcation using dual-imaging modalities | ||||||
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| Decker | Derek | Major Professor: Justin Siegel | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biophysics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: High throughput combinatorial enzyme design | ||||||
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| Demmer | Elieke | Major Professor: Marta van Loan | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Nutritional Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the effects of dairy fat on postprandial inflammation & PCA analysis to determine factors influencing weight loss in individuals | ||||||
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| Desai | Shuchi | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in advanced biofuel production, waste water management and toxic spill clean up | ||||||
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| Dhananjayan | Nithin | Major Professor: Alexei Stuchebrukhov | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biophysics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in predictive computational multi-scale modeling of disease and treatment. | ||||||
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| Doherty | Matthew | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Therapeutic Possibilities of Antibody Redirection | ||||||
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| Dunaway | Keith | Major Professor: Janine LaSalle / Ian Korf | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in Epigenetics, Bioinformatics, and aging | ||||||
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| Elmore | James | Major Professor: Gitta Coaker | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Proteomics of Plant Innate Immune Responses | ||||||
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| Eloi | Marjannie | Major Professor: Judy Van de Water | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Altered intracellular calcium levels as the mechanism for dysregulated immune responses to the environmental toxicant, polybrominated diphenyl ether-49 in children with autism | ||||||
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| Erickson | Anna | Major Professor: Andrew Fisher | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterization of an APS Reductase-like archaeal Iron-Sulfur protein of unknown function | ||||||
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| Espinoza | Aileen | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Host immune response to infectious diseases,oncology, gut immunology, virology, vaccine developement, biomedical engineering. | ||||||
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| Espiritu | Eugenel | Major Professor: Lesilee Rose | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Cytoskeletal rearrangements in proliferative populations of cells | ||||||
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| Eum | Kenneth | Major Professor: Jon Sack | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in signaling mechanisms of synapses in the brain and skeletal muscles | ||||||
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| Fan | Qingwen | Major Professor: Linda F. Bisson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food Science and Technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Yeast genetics, especially on yeast prion study. I'm mainly focusing on a [GAR+] yest prion. | ||||||
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| Fedor | Dawn | Major Professor: Darshan Kelley | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Nutritional Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The Impact of DHA on t10, c12 CLA-induced inflammation, hyperinsulinemia and fatty liver | ||||||
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| Feoktistova | Kateryna | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Enzymology, specifically protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions. | ||||||
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| Fite | Brett | Major Professor: Laura Marcu | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biophysics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Development of targeted molecular probes for the detection and characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and the delineation of tumor from normal tissue intraoperatively for head and neck tumors and grain tumors | ||||||
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| Flynn | Jonathan | Major Professor: Frank McNally | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the regulation of dynein dependent spindle rotation in the C. elegans one cell embryo | ||||||
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| Fogassy | Zachary | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases, strain differentation, pathogen transmission. Currently studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis-HIV coinfection | ||||||
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| Fong | Erin | Major Professor: Rajeevan Amirtharajah | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The use of photovoltaic energy harvesting for biomedical applications | ||||||
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| Fong | Michael | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: interested in tissue engineering, particularly in cartilage, for application in sports related injuries, such as meniscal tears, and its global impact due to the inevitable development of arthritis with age | ||||||
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| Foster | Greg | Major Professor: Scott Simon | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Assessment of risk and mechanism of coronary artery disease by phenotypic analysis of monocytes | ||||||
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| Fostvedt | Erik | Major Professor: TBA | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Epigenetics | ||||||
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| Fox | Amanda | Major Professor: Lorena Navarro | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Mechanistic Elucidation of TULP4's Innate Immune Suppression | ||||||
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| Fox | Elizabeth | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the immune system and its involvement in autoimmune diseases and cancer | ||||||
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| Gallegos | Jenna | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the molecular biology of plants. Especially DNA and RNA processing in model organisms | ||||||
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| Ghandehari | Ehson | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interests include stem cell research, biomaterials, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and BioMEMs | ||||||
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| Gillespie | Hyrum | Major Professor: Abhaya Dandekar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in genetic engineering and transgenetics | ||||||
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| Gilmore | Sean | Major Professor: Atul Parikh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Applied Science Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The lipids of extreme halophiles and their applicability to biotechnology | ||||||
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| Go | Aiza Cathe | Major Professor: Alexander Borowsky | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Identifying and Chracterizing Warburgian Populations During Breast Cancer Progression | ||||||
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| Golomb | Ben | Major Professor: Maria Marco | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food Science & Technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Specific genetic adaptations and ecological significance of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in plant systems (both on living plants and in plant-based fermentations). | ||||||
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| Gouran | Hossein | Major Professor: Abhaya Dandekar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Constructing innate immunity in grapevine to Pierce's disease | ||||||
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| Gulevich | Alex | Major Professor: J. Clark Lagarias | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in plant biology, biofuels, and optogenetics | ||||||
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| Hadidi | Pasha | Major Professor: Kyriacos Athanasiou | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Understanding and Enhancing Scaffoldless Self-Assembly for Tissue Engineering of a Regionally-Variant Funtional Knee Meniscus | ||||||
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| Halloran | Siobhan | Major Professor: William Ristenpart | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Airborne Disease Transmission via Expelled Respiratory Aerosols | ||||||
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| Hamilton | Brian | Major Professor: TBA | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Structure/function relationship in proteins. | ||||||
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| Hamilton | Oldham (Scott) | Major Professor: Noelle L'Etoile | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Culturing a Simple Neural Circuit from Caenorhabditis elegans Embryonic Cells to Elucidate the Signal Transduction Pathway in the AWC | ||||||
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| Harkenrider | Mitchell | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cellulosic biofuels and how they can begin to replace petroleum based fuels | ||||||
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| Harrison | Jason | Major Professor: Dean Tantillo | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Theoretical physical organic chemistry | ||||||
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| Hastey | Christine | Major Professor: TBA | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Subversion of humoral immunity following Bb infection. | ||||||
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| Hernandez | Mateo | Major Professor: Donald Land | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Transduction Dynamics of Lipid Bilayers Containing Additives | ||||||
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| Herrera | Gina | Major Professor: Volkmar Heinrich | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in studying chemotaxis and phagocytosis of neutrophils and possibly other leukocytes | ||||||
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| Hildebrand | Amanda | Major Professor: Julia Fan | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: A novel biochemical platform for fuels and chemicals production from cellulosic biomass: Genetic engineering and fermentation optimization for improved yield of ethanol and reactive intermediates | ||||||
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| Hilt | Silvia | Major Professor: John Voss | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: A Nanoparticle Platform for incorporating GPCRs generated in a cell-free system | ||||||
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| Hirst | Marissa | Major Professor: Scott Dawson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterizing the syntrophy between rumen entodinomorphid ciliats and their endosymbiotic methanogens | ||||||
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| Ho | Steve | Major Professor: Kent Leach | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in bone tissue engineering, development of composite polymeric scaffolds and drug delivery vehicles, and mechanisms of osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells | ||||||
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| Hoch | Allison | Major Professor: Kent Leach | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Preserving robust multipotency of mesenchymal stem cells through perfusion culture expansion | ||||||
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| Hoffman | Gena | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: I would like to use new technologies, particularly biotechnology, to improve the nutritional profile of crops. Other interests of mine include plant breeding and plant-pathogen interactions. | ||||||
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| Hua | Serenus | Major Professor: Carlito Lebrilla | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Oligosaccharide structural analysis and quantitation via high-resolution mass spectrometry | ||||||
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| Hughes | Jonathan | Major Professor: Rebecca Parales | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Chemotaxis to p-cymene in Pseudomonas putida F1 | ||||||
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| Hwang | Hyun Tae | Major Professor: Anne Knowlton | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology & Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Mechanisms of senescence and aging, and approaches to control them. Impeding the propagation of senescent cell population in vivo to delay the aging process. | ||||||
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| Hwang | Vicki | Major Professor: Flora Tassone | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Ilumination of the molecular pathology of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome | ||||||
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| Hwang | Yi-Hwa (Patty) | Major Professor: Neil Hunter | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Chromosome size dependent control of crossing-over during meiosis in budding yeast | ||||||
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| Jenkins | Shirin | Major Professor: Wolf Deitrich-Heyer | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: | ||||||
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| Jesinghaus | Roger | Major Professor: Enoch Baldwin | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Allostery in Cytidine Triphosphate Sythetase | ||||||
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| Jimenez Espinoza | Rogelio | Major Professor: David E. Block | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Synthesis of Human Milk Oligosaccharide analogs using Bifidobacterium longum subsp. Infantis enzymes and whole cells | ||||||
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| Jin | Liequn "Leah" | Major Professor: David Rocke | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biostatistics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biological networks | ||||||
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| Joshi | Geetika | Major Professor: Kate Scow | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Soils and Biogeochemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Regulation of MTBE degradation pathway in Methylibium petroleiphilum PMI. | ||||||
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| Jung | Yun Joon | Major Professor: Ronald Li | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Efficient induction of human Pluripotent Stem cells using neonatal MSCs and non-integrating lentivirus | ||||||
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| Kalomoiris | Stefanos | Major Professor: Jan Nolta | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, miRNA, gene therapy | ||||||
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| Karav | Sercan | Major Professor: David Block and David Mills | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food Science & Technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: | ||||||
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| Kauffman | Robert | Major Professor: Tom North | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Genotypic Analysis of Viremia and Viral Reservoirs in RT-SHIV Infected Rhesus Macaques | ||||||
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| Kerwin | Rachel | Major Professor: Dan Kliebenstein | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Plant biotechnology; the production of biofuels | ||||||
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| Kingsbury | Nathaniel | Major Professor: Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Localization and Recovery of In Planta Produced Recombinant Proteins | ||||||
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| Kiniry | Brenna | Major Professor: Barbara Shacklett | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The Cytolytic and antiviral beta-chemokine response of CD8+ T-cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa and their role in controlling HIV-1 infection | ||||||
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| Klug | Nicholas | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cardiovascular physiology and/or metabolic diseases | ||||||
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| Kurniawan | James | Major Professor: Tonya Kuhl | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Investigation of supported lipid bilayer system as a platform to study the structure of integral membrane protein | ||||||
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| Kurtulus | Ozge | Major Professor: Atul Parikh/Erkin Seker | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Stimuli Responsive Nanoporous Gold Platforms for Drug Delivery | ||||||
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| Kwa | Timothy | Major Professor: Alexander Revzin | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Aptamer-based biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics | ||||||
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| Lac | Diana | Major Professor: Kit S. Lam | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology & Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Identification of LBL7, a novel blood brain barrier penetrating peptide, with one-bead-two compound combinatorial library method | ||||||
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| Lamsen | Edna | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Production of Biofuels | ||||||
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| Lathan | Rashida | Major Professor: Juan Medrano | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Animal Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Genomic and Functional Analysis of Infertility in high growth FVB/NJ mice | ||||||
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| Lawrence | Katherine | Major Professor: JoAnne Engebrecht | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Plays a Role in DNA-damage-induced Cell Cycle Arrest in Male C. elegans Germline | ||||||
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| Lee | Jennifer | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in clinical and translational stem cell research. Utilizing stem cells not only for cell therapies, but for drug discovery and toxicity testing platforms | ||||||
|
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| Lee | Linda | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the cellular and molecular processes that govern cardiovascular physiology | ||||||
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| LeGrand | Karen | Major Professor: Glenn Young | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Bacterial protein YspI modulates mammalian cell signaling through focal adhesion kinase (FAK) | ||||||
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| Lemos | Mark | Major Professor: Katayoon Dehesh/Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Investigation of metabolic conduits involved in rechanneling the carbon flux from starch into oil | ||||||
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| Leth | Ingrid | Major Professor: Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Growth Kinetics, Optimization, and Scale-up of Agrobacterium tumefaciens for Large-scle in planta Protein Expression | ||||||
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| Lewis | Zachery | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genetics, Applied Research | ||||||
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| Liu | Furong | Major Professor: Pamela Ronald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in dentifing ono-toxic compounds that interfere with biofilm formation in Xanthomonas species using a novel and innovative genetice reporter system | ||||||
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| Lombard | Alan | Major Professor: Maria Mudryj | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Uncovering novel roles for miR-148a in cancer | ||||||
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| Lozada-Contreras | Michelle | Major Professor: David Block | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Biochemical engineering and biotechnology | ||||||
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| Lu | Xiyuan | Major Professor: Donald Bers | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular, & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cardiac mitochondrial calcium handling under physiological and pathological conditions | ||||||
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| Luu | Rita | Major Professor: Rebecca Parales | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanism of Naphthalene Detection and Chemotaxis in Pseudomonas putida | ||||||
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| Macbarb | Regina | Major Professor: Kyriacos Athanasiou | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: A Scaffold-Free Approach to Optimizing a Biomimetic TMJ Disc | ||||||
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| Mahan | Kristina | Major Professor: Rebecca Parales | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Structure Function Analysis of Nitrobenzene Dioxygenase | ||||||
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| Mahoney | Nicholas | Major Professor: Chris Fraser | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Elucidation of novel regulatory pathways which utilize cellular and/or viral internal ribosome entry sites. | ||||||
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| Malekan | Hamed | Major Professor: Xi Chen | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry | ||||||
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| Malgorzata | Liro | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Fascinated with stem cell biology and regenerative medicine; also enjoy learning about processes governing the vertebrate development | ||||||
|
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| Manlove | Amelia | Major Professor: Sheila David | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the chemical biology of oxidative DNA damage and enzymatic repair mechanisms | ||||||
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| Martin | Kevin | Major Professor: Jared Shaw | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Stem Cell Research and organic synthesis of natural products | ||||||
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| Matelski | Lauren | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested cancer biology, immunology, and development. | ||||||
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| Matern | Philip | Major Professor: TBA | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Muscular and cardiovascular physiology | ||||||
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| McEwen | Jordan | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Engineering Cyanobacteria for Continuous Diurnal Production of Biofuel and Valuable Chemicals | ||||||
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| McMahon | Samuel | Major Professor: Elva Diaz | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The Role of SynDIG1 in homeostatic synaptic plasticity | ||||||
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| Melters | Daniël | Major Professor: Ian Korf & Simon Chan [posthumously] | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Tempo and Mode of Genomic Shape Shifters: evolution of centromere tandem repeat sequences | ||||||
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| Meltzer | Amory | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in viruses and cancer genetics, but would like to use genetics as a tool to advance the biomedical field | ||||||
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| Mills | Emily | Major Professor: David Pleasure | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Cytokine and Chemokine Influences on the Initiation and Progression of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis | ||||||
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| Mitra | Debika | Major Professor: Kent Leach | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Tissue engineering | ||||||
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| Mizrahi (nee Goodman) | Rena (Aviva) | Major Professor: Peter Beal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Functional and Mechanistic Studies of Adenosine Deaminases Acting on RNA | ||||||
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| Monterrubio | Angela | Major Professor: Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Protein function and diseases resulting from protein misfolding/mutations | ||||||
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| Mooney | Jason | Major Professor: Renee Tsolis | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Salmonella Bacteremia During Underlying Malaria | ||||||
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| Moore | Jared | Major Professor: Jared Shaw | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Natural Product Analogues as Inhibitors of Filamenting Temperature Sensitive Protein Z (FtsZ) | ||||||
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| Moore | Jessica | Major Professor: Donald Land | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in topics related to health disparities and/or national security | ||||||
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| Moore | Mary | Major Professor: Jay Solnick | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Determinants of Outer Membrane Protein Expression in Helicobacter pylori | ||||||
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| Morris | Alexi | Major Professor: Peter Beal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Use of Nucleobase Modifications to Elucidate and Block Key RNA-Protein Interactions Leading to RNAi Off-Target Effects | ||||||
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| Mudinoor | Akshata | Major Professor: Tina Jeoh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biofuels, biosystems engineering and biotechnology | ||||||
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| Mukherjee | Sucheta | Major Professor: Wolf Dietrich-Heyer | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Evaluating MUS81 as a Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Target | ||||||
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| Murley | Andrew | Major Professor: Jodi Nunnari | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Cellular Roles of ER-Mitochondria Contact Sites | ||||||
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| Murphy | Meghan | Major Professor: Kyriacos Athanasiou | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Engineering Functional Cartilage for Temporomandibular Joint Disc Defects | ||||||
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| Nera | Bernadette | Major Professor: Lifeng Xu | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Telomere length regulation by the human telomere capping protein TRF2 | ||||||
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| Ngo | Alice | Major Professor: Xi Chen | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: One-pot multiple enzyme synthesis of oligosaccharides | ||||||
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| Ngo | Tin | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: | ||||||
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| Nguyen | Chuong | Major Professor: Roslyn Isseroff | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology & Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in using drugs to optimize stem cell therapies | ||||||
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| Nozzi | Nicole | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the production of chemicals of interest using genetically modified microorganisms | ||||||
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| O'Dell | Patrick | Major Professor: Tina Jeoh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biofuels, biosystems engineering, sustainable agriculture and human systems, food, human health, and nutrition | ||||||
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| Oliver | John | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Exdogenous metabolism in S. elongatus, and effects on the photosynthetic apparatus | ||||||
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| Olivos | David | Major Professor: Kit S. Lam | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Comparative Pathology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Applications of Combinatorial Chemistry: Design nad Development of Cancer Targeting Nanotherapeutics | ||||||
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| Ono | Nadia | Major Professor: Li Tian | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterization of a key step in Hydrolyzable Tannin Biosynthesis | ||||||
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| Onore | Charity | Major Professor: Paul Ashwood | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Potential Mechanisms Involved in Differential TLR cytokine response in ASD Monocytes | ||||||
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| Osibanjo | Richard | Major Professor: Donald Land | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Monitoring the Growth and Kinetics of Polymers on Surfaces for Development of Bio-Sensors in Determining Contaminants in Aqueous Systems | ||||||
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| Ozturk | Gulustan | Major Professor: Glenn Young | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food Science & Technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in Biotechnology in Food Science | ||||||
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| Papalamprou | Angela | Major Professor: Leigh Griffiths | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Xenogeneic scaffolds for myocardial patch tissue engineering: Antigen removal and mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) immunomodulation | ||||||
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| Patel | Dipali | Major Professor: Alexander Revzin | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cellular/tissue engineering | ||||||
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| Patel | Mira | Major Professor: Atul Parikh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in Drug Delivery and Biomaterial, particularly the use of nano engineered materials in novel drug delivery systems | ||||||
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| Peralta | Maria | Major Professor: Krishnan Nambiar | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in chemical biology, especially in finding anti-cancer drugs | ||||||
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| Pfluger | Trisha | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: | ||||||
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| Pham | Jonathan | Major Professor: Scott Dawson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: DNA repair mechanisms may explain low allelic heterogeneity in Giardia intestinalis | ||||||
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| Poe | Adam | Major Professor: Anne Knowlton | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Understanding the mechanism behind exosome formation and release, specifically their role in cardiomyocytes and heart failure | ||||||
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| Pollack | Marc | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Main interest, research-wise, is host-pathogen interactions. | ||||||
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| Pulford | Stephanie | Major Professor: Alex Mogilner | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Modeling of Cell Migration on Flexible Substrates | ||||||
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| Qu | Jingyao | Major Professor: Xi Chen | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Functional studies on glycosyltransferases | ||||||
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| Ramahi | Joseph | Major Professor: Simon Chan | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Quantification of CENH3/CENP-A and NDC80 Complexes in Individual Arabidopsis Kinetochores Reveals Structural Plasticity | ||||||
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| Rattanaporn | Kittipong | Major Professor: Karen McDonald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Role of Viral RNA Silencing Suppressors in the Improvement of Transient Expression of Viral Amplicon-based Expression Systems | ||||||
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| Reyes | Juan | Major Professor: Pablo Ross | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in stem biology, epigenetics, cancer biology, and autism spectrum disorders | ||||||
|
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| Rodriguez | Gabriel | Major Professor: Shota Atsumi | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce advanced biofuels, namely higher chain alcohols. | ||||||
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| Rogers | JohnPatrick | Major Professor: Sheila David | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Synthesis of Modified Nucleotides as Probesof DNA Repair Enzymes | ||||||
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| Ross | Shailise | Major Professor: Gang-yu Liu | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Functional Consequences of Cancer Variants in MutYH | ||||||
|
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| Saunders s | Mary | Major Professor: Kit S. Lam | ||||
|
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| Graduate Program: Comparative Pathology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Therapeutic Targeting of Novel Human Stem Cell and Cancer Associated Glycans | ||||||
|
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| Schroeder | Amy | Major Professor: Marty Privalsky | ||||
|
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
|
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Thyroxine (T4): An active hormone for Thyroid Hormone Receptor alpha1 | ||||||
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| Sckisel | Gail | Major Professor: William Murphy | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Host-pathogen interaction and cancer research | ||||||
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| Scott | Aubrey | Major Professor: Steve Cramer | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Applied Science | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Main interests are in the study of hydrogenase enzymes used in hydrogen fixation using a variety of spectroscopic methods | ||||||
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| Shani | Guy | Major Professor: David Mills | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in prebiotics and probiotics research, dealing with human mild and bifidobacteria | ||||||
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| Shin | Esther | Major Professor: Kent Pinkerton | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology & Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in determining the potential therapeutic applications and biological effects of nanomaterials in a rodent model via inhalation exposure | ||||||
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| Singh | Priyashiela | Major Professor: Kate Scow | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Land, Air, and Water Resources | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested on the effect of biosolids and other mangementpractices commonly used in agriculture on microbial diversity | ||||||
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| Smith | Juliane | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in understanding mitochondria morphology and genome inheritance, including how the organelle regulates and balances fission and fusion events. | ||||||
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| Snyder | Chelsea | Major Professor: Martin Privalsky | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The Role of Corepressor Splice Variants in Regulating Inflammation | ||||||
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| Sotelo | Jennie | Major Professor: Carolyn Slupsky | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food science & technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interesedt in metabolomics, particularly in studying the effects of food on health, especially infants and children | ||||||
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| Spees (nee O'Leary) | Alanna | Major Professor: Andreas Baumler | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Innate Immune Cellular Mechanisms During Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infection | ||||||
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| Starkewolfe | Zane | Major Professor: Ting Guo | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Novel Approaches for Cancer Therapy: Nanostructure Enhanced X-ray Therapeutics (NEXT) and Controlled Release of Chemotherapeutics utilizing X-ray Enabled Nanochemistry (XEN) | ||||||
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| Starr | Michael | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the use of gene-/metabolic-network modeling tools to analyze behavior of synthetic gene circuits in prokaryotes | ||||||
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| Strobel | Scott | Major Professor: Tina Jeoh | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in encapsulation of hydrophobic bioactive compounds and biosensors to monitor cellulose hydrolysis during AFM imaging experiments | ||||||
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| Sughrue | Wesley | Major Professor: Kit Lam | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Combinatorial Studies of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Etiology | ||||||
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| Surendrarao (Rao) | Anandkumar (Anand KS) | Major Professor: Douglas R Cook | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Investigating the interactions between the nodulation and ethylene signaling pathways in Medicago truncatula | ||||||
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| Tadeus | Clarissa | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Organic chemistry (biological cultivation, purification, isolation, characterization and synthesis) | ||||||
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| Tang | Tang | Major Professor: Chemistry | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in imaging probe design and application of multiple imaging modalities | ||||||
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| Tautges | Brandon | Major Professor: Angelique Louie | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in synthetic chemistry and the potential applications to synthesizing novel therapeutics | ||||||
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| Thomas | Justin | Major Professor: Peter Beal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in better understanding the pathways by which RNA-I works, improving its efficacy and identifying improved delivery methods for potential therapeutic use | ||||||
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| Thomas | Nicholas | Major Professor: Pamela Ronald | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: My current project involves validation of computationally identified genes that were predicted to interact within the XA21 pathway in rice innate immunity. I am interested in using genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to solve interaction networks | ||||||
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| Tjahjadi | Michelle | Major Professor: Anne Britt | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the elucidation of the DNA damage response to IR in Arabidopsis | ||||||
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| Todd | George (Kenneth) | Major Professor: Randen Patterson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in ion channels, ranging from TRPV1 and TRPC5 to Kv 1.4 | ||||||
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| Towns | Elyse | Major Professor: Donald Land | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in studying membrane associated biomolecules related to viruses and cancer using infrared spectometry | ||||||
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| Traore | Adama | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Electrical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interesting in integrating engineering into biological sciences | ||||||
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| Trinh | Vu | Major Professor: Robert Fairclough | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterization of the MIR of the Acetylcholine Receptor | ||||||
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| Truong | Kim | Major Professor: Isaac Pessah | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Pharmacology and Toxicology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in drug development | ||||||
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| Tu | Michelle | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Calcium-mediated electrical activity manifests in the regenerating muscle and spinal cord and is necessary for appropriate tissue regeneration | ||||||
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| Tuazon | Anna Marie | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in chromosome biology, genomics, and gene regulation | ||||||
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| Uhrig | John | Major Professor: Angie Gelli | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Investigation of the role of zinc metalloprotease, Mpr1, in Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier by Cryptococcus neoformans | ||||||
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| Valenzuela | Rachel Anne | Major Professor: Peter Beal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in working with siRNA | ||||||
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| Vonasek | Erica | Major Professor: Nitin Nitin | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in developing biopolymer formulations with bacteriophage therapy for food safety applications and creating optical tagging tools and microscopy methods to monitor bacteria and viruses in real time and in vivo in biological systems, particularly plant systems | ||||||
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| Walker | Gordon | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterization of the [GAR+] Prion in S. cerevisiae Wine Strains | ||||||
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| Walker (nee Byrne) | Katherine | Major Professor: Simon Cherry | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: High-Sensitivity Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography for small animals and plants | ||||||
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| Walters | Eric | Major Professor: Julia Fan | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological and Agricultural Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Biofuels, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and sustainability | ||||||
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| West | Donnelly | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the chemical interactions that plants engage in with their environments and other organisms. | ||||||
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| Whitfield | Damion | Major Professor: Mitch Singer | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in microbial based applications in environmental and health/medical related research | ||||||
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| Williams | Priscilla | Major Professor: Eduardo Silva | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in working with regenerative medicine and manipulating stem cell microenvironments both in vitro and in vivo. | ||||||
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| Woessner | David | Major Professor: Scott Dawson | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: The Median Body of Giardia Intestinalis. | ||||||
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| Wong | Diana | Major Professor: Annaliese Franz | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Alternative biofuel on algae | ||||||
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| Worden | Natasha | Major Professor: Georgia Drakakaki | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in studying endomembrane trafficking processes involved in cell wall biosynthesis, and use this information to develop cellulosic biofuels | ||||||
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| Wu | Dennis | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Immunology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Immunology program; Autoimmunity; Drug development | ||||||
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| Wu | Mon Shuan (Phoebe) | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in applying advances in biology to our everyday living. Particularly interested in biofuels production and challenges facing science and IP law. | ||||||
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| Yee | Le | Major Professor: Kyriacos Athanasiou | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Cartilage Tissue Engineering and Bioreactor | ||||||
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| Yin | Xiaochen (Elllie) | Major Professor: Maria Marco | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Food science & technology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in probiotics, prebiotics and gut microbiota | ||||||
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| Yoong | Fei Yian | Major Professor: Kent Bradford | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Plant Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: QTL Mapping on Seed Thermodormancy and other Breeding Traits | ||||||
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| Yu | Abigail | Major Professor: Ian Korf & David Segal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Genetics | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Treating malaria on a genetic level using artificial transcription factors | ||||||
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| Yu | Chao Wei | Major Professor: Bryan Jenkins | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling of leaching pretreatments for biomass upgrading and by-products recovering in thermochemical conversion systems | ||||||
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| Yuen | Benjamin | Major Professor: Paul Knoepfler | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in cancer and stem cell epigenetic regulation and metabolism | ||||||
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| Yuen | Garrick | Major Professor: | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in the molecular and cellular basis of disease | ||||||
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| Zeng | Cui Jing (Tracy) | Major Professor: Bo Liu | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Microbiology | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Characterization of the Signaling Events Triggering Cytokinesis in Apergillus nidulans | ||||||
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| Zeng | Nancy | Major Professor: William Ristenpart | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Microfluidic Investigation of the Effects of Post Translational Modifications (PTMs) on Mechanotransduction in Human Erythrocytes | ||||||
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| Zeno | Wade | Major Professor: Marjorie Longo/Subhash Risbud | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in Entrapment of Integral Membrane Proteins in Nanoporous Silica Gels using Nanolipoprotein Particles | ||||||
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| Zheng | Yuxuan (Eric) | Major Professor: Peter A. Beal | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Chemistry | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Synthesis modified RNA nucleosides for siRNA to investigate their effect on stimulation of cytokine production | ||||||
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| Zicari | Steve | Major Professor: Ruihong Zhang | ||||
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| Graduate Program: Biological Systems Engineering | ||||||
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| Interests / Thesis Title: Interested in biotechnology for future research applications in bioenergy | ||||||
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