Alumni Dissertation Collection
2024-2025
Fatema Salem, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
The Effects and Mechanisms of Lactate and Protons on the Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial (HUVEC) and Murine Melanoma (B16F10) Cells’ Migration, Adhesion, and Attachment
2023-2024
Elizabeth Lafave, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
Complementary Square Wave Voltammetry and LC-MS/MS Analysis to Elucidate Induced Damaged and Mutated Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA from Biological Organisms
Jasper Leavitt, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
An exploration of the effects of productivity, predators, and nutrient enrichment on metacommunity structure
Samuel Lindsay, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
Computational Investigation of the Annexin A2-Membrane Interaction and Annexin A2-Induced Microdomain Formation
Anna Wurz, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
Optogenetic Regulation of Membrane-Associated Proteins
2022-2023
Tori Angermeier, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
Red Blood Cell Preservation Under Austere Conditions
Kassondra Balestrieri, PhD, IDPBBC-Biomedicine
Identification of galectin-1 as a marker for claudin-low breast cancer and implications for tumor progression
Robert Driver, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Evolution of Olfactory Receptors in Birds
Dustin Foote, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Conservation and Immunogenomics of the Endangered White-winged Duck
Timothy Lee, PhD, IDPBBC-Biomedicine
Diversity and Survival of Macrofauna associated with a Non-Native Foundational Species
Mona Marie, PhD, IDPBS-Biomedicine
The Differential Roles of pH sensing G-Protein Coupled Receptors in Inflammation and Cancer
Andrew Rubio, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Investigating the Genetic Basis of Aposematic Coloration in Poison Frogs
Stacy Trackenberg, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Evaluating the Role of Habitat Complexity in Structuring Seagrass Communities
Alexandra Venuto, PhD, IDPBBC-Biomedicine
The Role of the Lateral Line in Early Larval Zebrafish and Contribution to Multisensory Behaviors
2021-2022
Christopher Anderson, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Color Pattern Evolution in the Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): Functional, Mechanistic and Synthetic Approaches
Katie Clements, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
The Effect of Social Experience on the Synergistic Neuromodulation of Motor Circuits
Christopher Moore, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Trophically transmitted parasites as “cross-taxon surrogates” of biodiversity in coastal environments
Youngyong Park, PhD, IDPBS-Biomedicine
Novel Function of PUF Proteins and Their Partners in Spermatogenesis and Spermatocyte-Derived Germline Tumors in Caenorhabditis elegans
Hailong Yang, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Genetic regulation of maize floral development – insights from the transcriptome and translatome
2020-2021
Chequita Brooks, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Bacteria of a feather floc together: Microbial interactions and function within iron-oxidizing bacterial communities
T. Jeffrey Cole, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Molecular evolution of venom proteins in Ctenidae (Order: Araneae) spiders
Christopher Cohen, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Venomics and systematics of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
Cody Garrison, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Microbial community response to environmental change during the Anthropocene
2019-2020
Regina Bledsoe, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Manipulation of flooding and nutrients influences plant-microbe interactions and wetland function
Danielle Finger, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Determining the role of the steroid hormone ecdysone in critical stages of Drosophila melanogaster early oogenesis
Thomas Shoopman, PhD, IDPBS-Chemistry
Modern and Classic Quantum Chemistry: Modeling Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroacylation with Advanced Tools and the Development and Application of Software to Examine Simple Bonding Interactions in a Basis of Molecular Fragments
Xinjun Wu, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Characterization of Pgrmcs and mPRs in oocyte maturation and ovulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Andrew Morris, PhD, IDPBS-Chemistry
Developing Novel Chemotherapeutics: A Structure-Activity Study of Anandamide Analogs and their Cytotoxic Profiles
2018-2019
Mohammad Alfhili, PhD, IDPBS-Biomedicine
Therapeutic and Toxicological Evaluation of Brad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Triclosan as a Chemotherapeutic Agent
Nicole Davis Armstrong, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Integrative multi-omic analyses identify novel biomarkers for recurrent stroke in participants from the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) clinical trial
Ninad Doctor, PhD, IDPBS-Chemistry
Development of Green Subcritical Water Separation Technology
Daniel Newhouse, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
The effects of stress on avian gene expression and microbiomes