Alumni Dissertation Collection

2022-2023

Robert Driver, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Evolution of Olfactory Receptors in Birds

Tori Angermeier, PhD, IDPBBC-Chemistry
Red Blood Cell Preservation Under Austere Conditions

Mona Marie, PhD, IDPBS-Biomedicine
The Differential Roles of pH sensing G-Protein Coupled Receptors in Inflammation and Cancer

2021-2022

Hailong Yang, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Genetic regulation of maize floral development – insights from the transcriptome and translatome

Katie Clements, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
The Effect of Social Experience on the Synergistic Neuromodulation of Motor Circuits

Christopher Anderson, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Color Pattern Evolution in the Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): Functional, Mechanistic and Synthetic Approaches

Youngyong Park, PhD, IDPBS-Biomedicine
Novel Function of PUF Proteins and Their Partners in Spermatogenesis and Spermatocyte-Derived Germline Tumors in Caenorhabditis elegans

Christopher Moore, PhD, IDPBBC-Biology
Trophically transmitted parasites as “cross-taxon surrogates” of biodiversity in coastal environments

2020-2021

Cody Garrison, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
Microbial community response to environmental change during the Anthropocene

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)

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

Daniel Newhouse, PhD, IDPBS-Biology
The effects of stress on avian gene expression and microbiomes