Dissertation Defenses

Upcoming:

Wednesday, December 9, 2009: Geoff Findlay (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Drosophila Seminal Fluid Proteins: Proteomic Identification and Evolutionary Analysis"
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, January 6, 2010: Jeff Kidd (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Past Defenses:

Tuesday, November 17, 2009: Michael Boyle (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Temporal and spatial regulation of morphogenesis during Drosophila egg chamber development"

Thursday, November 12, 2009: Will Sheffler (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A Volumetric Energy Function For Protein Core Packing"

Friday, November 6, 2009: Kristen Lewis (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genomic Approaches to Forensic DNA Analysis"

Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Mark Enstrom (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“A Genome Scale Phenotype Screen to Determine Carbon Source Utilization and Stress Tolerance Pathways in Francisella novicida”

Thursday, June 25, 2009: Michael Hoopmann (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Improving the aim of shotgun proteomics: Software and technology for high-resolution mass spectrometry"

Wednesday, June 10, 2009: Lazar Dimitrov (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genetic Analysis of Mitochondrial Genome Instability in S. cerevisiae"

Tuesday, May 5, 2009: Steve Salipante (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A Genomic Approach to Fate Mapping: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Somatic Mutation"

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: Chul Joo Kang (Ph.D. in Genetics)

Thursday, October 30, 2008: Zhaoshi Jiang (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"An Evolutionary Reconstruction of Human Segmental Duplications"

Thursday, August 21, 2008: Charla Lambert (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The Population Genetics of Duffy and Duffy-like Loci in the Human Genome"

Friday, July 25, 2008: Sara Selgrade (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa Regulation of Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides"

Thursday, June 26, 2008: Chung-Ying Huang (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Targeting Mechanisms of Resistance to Taxane-Based Chemotherapy"

Friday, June 13, 2008: Kiran Dhillon (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Analysis of in vivo functions of the Werner syndrome protein"

Friday, June 6, 2008: David Spencer (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Individual Genome Sequences"

Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Aaron Klammer (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Revealing the proteome: A machine learning approach to peptide identification"

Wednesday, March 19, 2008: Joanna Kelley (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Adaptive Evolution: From Genome-Wide Scans to Biological Significance"

Monday, December 3, 2007: Stephen Voght (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Development and analysis of a Drosophila model of dietary sterol absorption"

Wednesday, July 18, 2007: Ilona Holcomb (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Genomic profiling of prostate cancer within and beyond the primary tumor"

Tuesday, June 19, 2007: Laura Certain (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genetic profiling of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum"

Friday, June 1, 2007: Chris Saunders (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Insights from modeling protein evolution with context-dependent mutation and asymmetric amino acid selection"

Wednesday, May 30, 2007: Tobias Mann (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A Thermodynamic Approach to PCR Primer Design"

Wednesday, May 30, 2007: James Ronald (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Analysis of naturally occurring cis-acting gene expression variation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Friday, May 4, 2007: Nathan Clark (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The Adaptive Evolution of Reproductive Proteins from Abalone and Primates:
Studies of Positive Selection, Populations, and Protein Structure"

Monday, April 30, 2007: Karen Chisholm (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genetic backgrounds susceptible to genomic deletions: Alu-mediated mutations of BRCA1 as a model"

Tuesday, March 13, 2007: Jonathan Ulmer (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Analysis and Studies of Inhibition of the two Divergent Thymidine Biosynthesis Pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis"

Tuesday, February 27, 2007: Allyson McCormick (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Modeling Epilepsy in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans"

Tuesday, November 28, 2006: Rachel Mackelprang (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Evolutionary analysis of the T cell receptor using a sequence based approach"

Tuesday, November 21, 2006: Daehyun Baek (Ph.D. in Bioengineering)
"Characterization of Evolutionarily Conserved Mammalian Alternative Splicing and Alternative Promoters"

Monday, November 20, 2006: Tushar Bhangale (Ph.D. in Bioengineering)

Tuesday, November 7, 2006: Laura Flinn (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Genomic Analysis of a Human Interferon-inducible Gene Family and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"

Monday, July 31, 2006: Megan Fluegel (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Establishment of a Drosophila model to study the role of NPC1a in sterol biology "

Thursday, June 29, 2006: Ed Ramos (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Tools for studying gross nuclear organization, dynamics and epigenetic modifications of chromosomes"

Friday, June 23, 2006: Iyarit Thaipisuttikul (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"A mutant hunt in the genomic era: comprehensive identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa anaerobic growth functions"

Thursday, June 22, 2006: Kerry Bubb (Ph.D. in Genetics)
link to thesis: "The Role of Balancing Selection in Maintenance of Natural Genetic Variation"

Friday, June 9, 2006: Eric Smith (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Genetic Adaptation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa during Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Infections, and Genetic Variation between Strains of P. aeruginosa"

Wednesday, May 31, 2006: Steve Eacker (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Effects of androgen receptor mutations on murine testicular function and development"

Tuesday, April 4, 2006:  Trey Powers (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Reduced signalng through the evolutionarily conserved TOR pathway extens life span in S. cerevisiae"

Monday, March 13, 2006:   Kavita Garg (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Genome-Wide Comparison of Alternative and Constitutive Splice Sites Conserved Between Human and Mouse "

Thursday, December 15, 2005:  Lindsey Dubb (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"A Likelihood Model of Gene Family Evolution"

Monday, December 5, 2005: Elena Linardopoulou (Ph.D. in Bioengineering)
"Structure, function and evolution of human subtelomeres"

Monday, October 24, 2005:  Jeanna Wheeler (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Genetic Analysis of Rhythmic Behavior in C. elegans"

Wednesday, July 13, 2005:  Jennifer Eklund (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Design and characterization of homing endonuclease I-PpoI variants with novel DNA sequence specificity"

Monday, June 13, 2005:  Dick Hwang (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo phylogenetic analysis of mammalian evolution reveals varying substitution patterns along the sequence and across lineages"

Friday, June 3, 2005:  James Sherman (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Proteome scale decay kinetic discovery:  Methodologies and Applications"

Wednesday, March 16, 2005: Terrence Satterfield (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Genetics and Biochemical Analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster Homolog of the Human SCA2 Gene

Monday, March 7, 2005: Robert Maxwell Robinson (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Splicing Signals in Caenorhabditis elegans: Candidate Exonic Splicing Enhancer Motifs"

Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Michele Hastings (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Analysis of Dihydrofolate Reductase Variations in Relation to Antifolate Resistance in Plasmodium vivax"

Monday, November 15, 2004: Jessica Greene (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Investigation of parkin function in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's Disease"

Tuesday, September 7, 2004: Josh McElwee (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"A comparative analysis of transcriptional alterations in long-lived insulin/IGF-1-like signaling mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster."

Thursday, August 19, 2004: Monika Tzoneva (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"UNC-58 is an unusual member of the C. elegans TWIK potassium channel family"

Thursday, August 12, 2004: Mara Jeffress (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Identification of Putative Plasmodium falciparum Mefloquine Resistance Genes"

Tuesday, August 3, 2004: John Miller (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Interactions Among Integral Membrane Proteins of Yeast"

Wednesday, July 14, 2004: Michael Bonham (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Identification of tumor cell growth inhibitory compoty of its Regulation"

Tuesday, June 29, 2004: Tera Newman (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Complex Evolution of the 7E Olfactory Receptor Genes and 7E Segmental Duplications"

Friday, March 19, 2004: Elaine Round (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"In One End and Out the Other: Involvement of G-Protein Signaling in the C. elegans Defecation Motor Program"

Friday, March 12, 2004: Heather McCune (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Better Late than Never: Microarray-Based Analysis of DNA Replication Dynamics in a Yeast Mutant with Inefficient Late Origin Activation"

Friday, March 5, 2004: Michael Babcock (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Forward and Reverse Genetic Approaches to Studying Synaptic Transmission in Drosophila melanogaster."

Tuesday, February 24, 2004: Audrey Seamons (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Implications of Myelin Basic Protein Processing and Presentation on T Cell Activation and Tolerance"

Wednesday, December 10, 2003: Juno Choe (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Genomic Analysis by Single Cell Flow Sorting"

Monday, November 3, 2003: Rob Holdcraft (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Regulation of Spermatogenesis by Androgen Receptor: Effect of Hypomorphic and Cell Specific Mutations"

September 24, 2003: Leonard Lipovich (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Novel Transcriptional Units and Unconventional Gene Pairs in Human Genomic Sequence"

September 11, 2003: Sherrif Ibrahim (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Characterization of Murine Hematopoietic Stem Cells through Surface Phenotyping and Dye Efflux." .

August 21, 2003: Jessica Golby (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Genetic Analysis of Drosophila NSF Function"

August 15, 2003: Jennie Dorman (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Investigating epithelial morphogenesis during dorsal appendage formation in Drosophila oogenesis"

June 23, 2003: David Tabb (Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology)
"Bioinformatics of proteomic tandem mass spectra: selection, characterization, and identification"

June 10, 2003: David Tran (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"bullwinkle encodes a SOX transcription factor and interacts with Bic-C and shark to regulate multiple processes in Drosophila oogenesis"

February 28, 2003: Rachael French (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"tramtrack and the Regulation of Dorsal Appendage Morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster"

June 13, 2002: Karen James (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"RAS, Dorsoventral Patterning and the Evolution of Eggshell Morphology in Drosophila"

March 15, 2002: Flaviano Giorgini (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Functional Analysis of the Murine Sequence-Specific RNA-Binding Protein MSY4"

December 20, 2001: Sonia Yvette Hunt (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Life Without CDC7: Replication Dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the Absence of an Essential Kinase"

December 11, 2001: Larry Gallagher (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Insights into Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence: Cyanide as a Weapon and the Complexity of its Regulation"

December 10, 2001: Bill Buaas (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Spermatogonial Stem Cell Development in the Mouse Mutant Luxoid: An Old Mutant with a Novel Role"

November 5, 2001: Heather Christy Mefford (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Evolution and Biology of a Subtelomeric Repeat Containing an Expressed Olfactory Receptor Gene."

November 2, 2001: Christina Buchanan (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Identification and Characterization of a Checkpoint Triggered by Delayed Replication in S. cerevisiae."

August 16, 2001: Elizabeth Stratton Pratt (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Genetic and Biochemical Studies of Adr6, a Component of the SWI / SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex"

August 3, 2001: Jessica Nadler (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Fanconi Anemia complementation group C reveals a role for DNA damage repair in Primordial germ cell development"

July 31, 2001: Merrilee Robatzek (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Genetic Interactions Between the C. elegans Calcium / calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II and a G-protein Signaling Network"

December 8, 2000: Deborah Allen Kuzmanovic (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"The Role of a Myosin in Yeast Cytokinesis"

October 19, 2000: Sam Schriner (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"DNA Damage in Mice and Mouse Cells Overexpressing Human Catalases"

March 10, 2000: Holly Gibs Davies (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"MSY4, A Sequence-Specific RNA Binding Protein Expressed During Mouse Spermatogenesis"

March 2, 2000: Eleanor Gray Hankins (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: The Role of Point Mutations in Dihydropteroate Synthase and Dihydrofolate Reductase Analyzed in a Yeast Model"

December 17, 1999: Shannon Payne (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"Analysis of BRCA1 Genomic Structure: Novel Germline Mutations and Somatic Alterations in Breast Cancer"

December 10, 1999: Takao Inoue (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"TGF-ß Signaling in C. Elegans Dauer Formation"

July 23, 1999: Jun Zhong (Ph.D. in Genetics)
"A Double-Stranded RNA Binding Protein that is Important for Murine Spermatogenesis and Growth"