2024
- Busra Gok
Single-cell Transcriptomics Profiling of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Asymptomatic Individuals Across Brain and Leptomeninges
Advisor: Cheng
2023
- Christopher DiRusso
Structural Plasticity of Nf-kappaB Essential Modulator Demonstrates the Active Regulatory Roles of Scaffold Proteins
Advisor: Gilmore
2022
- Pablo Joshua Aguirre Carrion
CRISPR Manipulation And Nutritional Status Reveal Functions Of Transcription Factor NF-kappab In The Sea Anemone Nematostella Vectensis
Advisor: Gilmore - Zachary Gardner
Astrocytic Roles in Regulating Dendritic Spine Maturation in UBE3A-dependent Autism Spectrum
Advisor: Man - Heather Hook
The Development and Implementation of Novel, High-Throughput, Array-Based Methods to Study Transcription Factor-Cofactor Complex Recruitment to DNA
Advisor: Siggers - Diane Lebo
Ellucidating the Molecular Networks Regulating Cell Corpse Clearance by Nonprofessional Phagocytes in the Drosophila Ovary
Advisor: McCall - Hannah Rickner
Single Cell Transcriptomic Profiling of Multifactorial Inflammatory Disease States
Advisor: Cheng - Nahomie Rodriguez-Sastre
The Cellular and Molecular Effects of Ethanol in Mediating Skeletal Patterning Defects in Sea Urchin Embryos
Advisor: Bradham - Christopher Thomas
Investigating the Roles of Ion Channels in the Development of the Sea Urchin Embryo
Advisor: Bradham
2021
- Johnny Elguero
Investigation of The Role of Innate Immunity in Neurodegeneration Driven By Defective Phagocytosis
Advisor: McCall - Leah Williams
Structure, Activity, and Biology of Transcription Factor NF-kappab in Evolutionary Basal Organisms: Insights into The Origins of Immune Regulation
Advisor: Gilmore
2020
- Tiffany Dill
Long Noncoding RNA MEG3 Regulates Myoblast Plasticity and Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Advisor: Naya - Linda Nguyen
The Effects of Photosymbiosis on Gene Expression in the Facultatively Symbiotic Coral Astrangia Poculata, with a Focus on NF-kB Signaling and Antioxidanta Enzymes
Advisor: Finnerty
2019
- Kellen Andrilenas
Investigations of the DNA-Binding Activity and Gene Regulatory Properties of IRF3, IRF5, and IRF7 Homodimers
Advisor: Siggers - Alla Hamilton
Characterization of Nuclear Degradation Dynamics During Cell Death and Modeling Human Laminopathies Using CRISPR/CAS9 in Drosophila Melanogaster
Advisor: McCall - Quynh Ho
Studies on the Structure of Aldolase Bound to F-Actin and its Role in Endocytosis
Advisor: Tolan - Katelyn Mansfield
Characterization of Immunity Transcription Factor NF-kB in a Symbiotic Cnidarian Model Organism, the Sea Anemone Melanogaster Ovary
Advisor: Gilmore - Bryan Matthews
Elucidation of Sex-Biased Regulatory Elements Through the Study of Chromatin Interactions, Gene Expression, and Genetic Variants in a Mouse Liver Model
Advisor: Waxman - Sanda Zolj
The Arabidopsis ALF3-1 Mutation Causes Autoimmunity in the Root and Identifies a TIR Domain Protein
Advisor: Celenza
2018
- Joseph Brennan
Role of a Sea Anemone (Nematostella Vectensis) Toll-Like Receptor in Pathogen Detection, Development, and Activation of NF-Kappab Signaling
Advisor: Gilmore - Victoria Jenkins
Snail Family Genes Disrupt Cell Death and are Required for Stem Cell Maintenance in the Drosophila Melanogaster Ovary
Advisor: McCall - Nicholas Lodato
Xenobiotic Effects on Male MOuse Reproductive System and Hepatic Gene Expression and Epigenetics: Studies with Bisphenol A and TCPOBOP
Advisor: Waxman
2017
- Cody Desjardins
The Myocyte Enhancer Factor-2 (MEF2) Family Mediates Complex Gene Regulation in Skeletal and Cardiac Myocytes
Advisor: Naya - Marie Elizabeth Jordan
Combination Metronomic Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy in Preclinical Mouse Glioma Models
Advisor: Waxman - Daphne Schatzberg
Bioelectrical Dynamics are Required for Normal Development of the Sea Urchin Embryo
Advisor: Bradham
2016
- Amanda (Rice) Clark
MEF2-regulated Gtl2-Dio3 noncoding RNAs in cardiac muscle and disease
Advisor: Naya - Tracy Meehan
Analysis of Engulfment and Cell Corpse Processing by Epithelial Cells in the Drosophila Ovary
Advisor: McCall - Jennifer Lynn Sherman Willoughby
Transcription factor LSF: a mitotic regulator in hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Advisor: Hansen
2015
- Nelsa Estrella
Gene Programs Regulated by MEF2 Transcription Factors in Rodent Striated Muscle Cells
Advisor: Naya - Leila Haery
Effects of C-Terminal Truncations of the Histone Acetyltransferase P300 on the Growth and Gene Expression Patterns of Human Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Cell Lines
Advisor: Gilmore - Allison Timmons
Phagocytosis Genes and the JNK Signaling Pathway Promote Developmental Programmed Cell Death and are Essential for Engulfment of the Dying Germline in the Drosophila Ovary
Advisor: McCall
2014
- Lauren Friedman
Microevolution of the oxidative stress response: organismal and transcriptomic effects of peroxide exposure in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Advisor: Finnerty - Derek Stefanik
Investigating alternative life history trajectories in two species of edwardsiid sea anemonies using ecological, transcriptomic, and molecular approaches
Advisor: Finnerty