UW Genome Sciences

Upcoming:

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Wei Yang | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Modeling temporal dynamics of early embryogenesis and aging"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Chris McGann | Schweppe Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
3:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

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Past Defenses:

Friday, March 7, 2025
Melih Yilmaz | Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering
"Translating mass spectra to peptides with deep learning"
9:00 | Foege S-110 | remote viewing option (please note: not using usual GS Semiars link) | flier

Abstract:
Tandem mass spectrometry is the leading technique to study proteins at scale and a fundamental challenge in mass spectrometry-based proteomics is the identification of the peptide that generated each acquired tandem mass spectrum. Approaches that leverage known peptide sequence databases cannot detect unexpected peptides and can be impractical or impossible to apply in some settings. Thus, the ability to assign peptide sequences to tandem mass spectra without prior information, de novo peptide sequencing, is valuable for tasks including antibody sequencing, immunopeptidomics, and metaproteomics. Although many methods have been developed to address this problem, it remains an outstanding challenge in part due to the difficulty of modeling the irregular data structure of tandem mass spectra. In this work, we describe Casanovo, a machine learning model that uses a transformer neural network architecture to translate the sequence of peaks in a tandem mass spectrum into the sequence of amino acids that comprise the generating peptide. Casanovo is trained on a repository-scale dataset and it significantly advances the state-of-the-art in de novo peptide sequencing. We show that Casanovo's superior performance improves the analysis of immunopeptidomics and metaproteomics experiments and allows us to delve deeper into the dark proteome. Finally, we go beyond the de novo peptide sequencing problem and demonstrate Casanovo's capabilities as a foundation model in mass spectrometry proteomics.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Yuzhen Liu | Beliveau Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
9:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Friday, February 7, 2025
Shawn Fayer | Fowler Lab, Starita Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Using genomic technology to transform how genetics is used to diagnose and treat disease"
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Sophie Moggridge | Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Using mass spectrometry to interrogate variation originating at the DNA and protein-levels"
11:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Dissertation Defense: Sriram Pendyala | Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"From variants to cytokines: comprehensively characterizing how cells respond to perturbations"
9:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Monday, December 9, 2024
Candice Young | Harris Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"The Influence of MUTYH on Germline and Somatic Mutagenesis Across Species"
10:00 | Health Sciences T-747

Friday, November 15, 2024
Philip Dishuck | Eichler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Structural variation and expression of segmentally duplicated human genes"
11:00 | Health Sciences D-209 | flier

Thursday, September 19, 2024
Madeleine Duran | Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Algorithms for differential analysis of cellular composition in single-cell perturbation experiments"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Friday, August 30, 2024
Michelle Noyes | Eichler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Genome-wide variation in human germline and postzygotic mutation rates”
11:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Miranda Mudge | Nunn Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"From microbes to microbiomes: bacterial proteomes reveal strategies for overcoming environmental challenges"
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Thursday, May 30, 2024
Eliza Barkan | Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
10:00 | Foege Auditoriun | remote viewing option

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Anna Bakhtina | Bruce Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Application of quantitative cross-linking mass spectrometry methods to study interactome differences”
9:30 | Orin Smith Auditorium, South Lake Union C Building | remote viewing option | flier

Monday, May 20, 2024
Sam Smukowski | Valdmanis Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Mislocalization of diverse RNA species to synapses in Alzheimer's disease and aging"
3:00 | Foege Auditoriun | remote viewing option | flier

Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Cassia Wagner | Bedford Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Dissecting the clinical significance of evolving pathogen diversity"
10:00 | Arnold, M1-A303/305, Behnke Combo, FHCC | remote viewing option | flier

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Sam Regalado | Shendure Lab, Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Sayeh Gorjifard | Queitsch / Cuperus Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Transcript cleavage and polyadenylation in plants"
10:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Thursday, November 30, 2023
Deanna Plubell | MacCoss Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Characterizing Alzheimer's disease using quantitative proteomics"
12:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Thursday, November 9, 2023
Taylor Wang | Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"Leveraging the awesome power of Saccharomyces to probe the evolution of genetic networks"
9:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Robin Aguilar | Beliveau Lab, Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"One FISH, two FISH, red FISH, blue FISH"
12:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Monday, September 18, 2023
Chengxiang Qiu | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Thursday, September 7, 2023
Gabe Boyle | Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"Using high throughput technologies to understand heterogeneous drug response"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Friday, June 30, 2023
Florence Chardon | Shendure Lab, Starita Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"CRISPR-based functional genomics to study gene regulatory architecture and functional consequences of genetic variation"
12:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Alan Min | Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Statistics
"Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Thursday, June 15, 2023
Lilian Heil | MacCoss Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Systematic Data Acquisition and Analysis Strategies for Quantitative Proteomics"
9:30 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Friday, June 9, 2023
Gesine Cauer | Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Inferring whole-genome 3D chromatin structures from diploid Hi-C data"
2:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Monday, June 5, 2023
Kevin Thornton | Queitsch / Cuperus Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"rDNA copy number variation alters response to common growth environments in yeast"
11:00 | Health Sciences D-209 | flier | remote viewing option

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Danielle Faivre | MacCoss Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Feature Detection for the Hidden Proteome”
3:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Thursday, May 25, 2023
Phoebe Parrish | Berger Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Expanding cancer therapy options through genome‐scale identification of synthetic lethal paralogs”
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Thursday, February 16, 2023
Maya Lewinsohn | Bedford Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
12:00 | Behnke Combo (M1-A305/A307), Arnold Building first floor, FHCC | remote viewing option

Monday, February 6, 2023
Nick Popp | Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"MultiSTEP: a high-throughput method to identify sequence-function relationships in secreted proteins"
12:30 | Health Sciences K-069 | remote viewing option

Thursday, January 26, 2023
Xingfan Huang | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering
"Computational methods of high-dimensional datasets derived from molecular profiling of biological systems"
9:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Thursday, January 19, 2023
Austin Gabel | Bradley Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"High-throughput functional characterization of cancer specific alternative polyadenylation"
1:00 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Cernter, Steam plant O’Mack suites (Suite: S1-141/142) | flier | remote viewing option

Thursday, January 12, 2023
Emma Hoppe | Bradley Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Understanding recursive splicing in the human genome"
2:00 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Arnold Building, M1-A305 (Behnke Suites) | flier | remote viewing option

Thursday, December 15, 2022
Jackson Tonnies | Queitsch/Cuperus Lab, Ph.D. in Biology
"Analysis of Plant Regulatory Elements at Genome Scale"
11:00 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Jose Pineda | Bradley Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Ultra-large-scale genomics approaches to improve cancer therapeutic response"
2:30 | Fred Hutch S1-141/142 (H) O’Mack Symposium Suite

Thursday, November 17, 2022
David Bacsik | Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Quantifying progeny production from individual influenza virus-infected cells"
3:00 | Fred Hutch O'Mack Symposium Suite | remote viewing option

Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Emma De Neef | Bradley Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Immune consequences and therapeutic targeting of disrupted RNA splicing in cancer"
1:00 | Fred Hutch S1-141, Steamplant Building | remote viewing option

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
David Read | Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Development and application of combinatorial single cell methods to tissue physiology and disease"
12:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Thursday, September 8, 2022
Alberto Rivera | Swanson Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Investigating the duplication and evolution of essential fertilization proteins"
3:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Martin Mathay | Bruce Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Quantitative cross-linking mass spectrometry for protein structural stability studies"
10:30 | held remotely

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Andria Ellis | Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Identifying Neural Pathways of Stress and Fear with Retrograde Viral Tracing and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing"
10:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Friday, June 3, 2022
Michael Goldberg | Harris Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Variation in germline mutagenesis in humans and other great apes”
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Thursday, June 2, 2022
Kyle Hess | Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
"Proteome-wide mapping of sequence-function relationships using mistranslation"
1:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, June 1, 2022
April Lo | Berger Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Oncogene-driven post-transcriptional regulation in lung cancer”
1:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Anthony Barente | Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Powering phosphoproteomics with large scale data analysis and machine learning"
11:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Friday, May 27, 2022
Anna Minkina | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Tethering distinct molecular profiles of single cells by their lineage histories to investigate sources of cell state heterogeneity”
11:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Wei Chen | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular Engineering
11:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Jared Mohr | Bruce Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"New technologies for cross-linking mass spectrometry"
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Will DeWitt | Harris Lab, Matsen Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Inferring evolutionary processes across biological scales: from germline mutagenesis to adaptive immunity”
1:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Monday, April 18, 2022
Cindy Yeh | Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"High-throughput functional analysis of natural variants in yeast"
12:00 | Health Sciences K-069 | remote viewing option | flier

Friday, March 11, 2022
Ian Smith | Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
"Developing Proteomic Methods to Assay Function of Proteoforms"
10:30 | Foege Auditorium | flier | remote viewing option

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Ryan Carlson | King Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
“Discovery and characterization of genes responsible for inherited hearing loss”
3:30 | Health Sciences T-639 | flier | remote viewing option

Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Allie Greaney (Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Understanding SARS-CoV-2 antigenic evolution using complete genotype-to-phenotype maps of the effects of mutations on antibody binding"
10:30 | held remotely

Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Bianca Ruiz (Fields Lab, Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Proteome-wide amino acid substitution and biochemical selection to understand protein biology"
1:30 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option

Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Jolie Carlisle (Swanson Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The Molecular Diversification and Species-Specific Interactions of Gamete Recognition Proteins"
2:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option | flier

Monday, October 25, 2021
Ashley Hall (Queitsch Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Measurement and phenotypic consequences of ribosomal DNA copy number variation"
11:00 | Health Sciences D-209 | remote viewing option

Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Chris Large (Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"From lab to lager: An investigation of adaptation, admixture, and ale brewing yeasts"
10:00 a.m. | remote presentation link | flier

Friday, June 4, 2021
Kate Crawford (Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Pseudotyped lentiviral systems for studying viral entry proteins from emerging viruses with pandemic potential”
1:30 | flier | remote presentation link

Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Sanjay Srivatsan (Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Multiplex single-cell RNA sequencing for chemical genomics and spatial transcriptomics"
3:30 | flier | remote presentation link

Thursday, May 6, 2021
Rebecca Martin (Brewer-Raghuraman Lab, Molecular & Cellular Biology Ph.D.)
"The replication origin specificity of budding yeast species"
10:30 | flier | remote presentation link

Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Mitchell Vollger (Eichler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:00 | flier | remote presentation link

Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Andy Lin (Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:00 | flier | remote presentation link

Monday, March 1, 2021
Eliah Overbey (Hawkins Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Understanding Regulatory Control of Gene Expression using Epigenome and Epitranscriptome Maps"
1:30 | flier | remote presentation link

Monday, November 30, 2020
Ken Jean-Baptiste (Queitsch Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:00 | remote presentation link

Monday, November 23, 2020
Abigail Keller (Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Genome-wide investigations into the consequences of gene and chromosome copy number changes"
10:00 | remote presentation link | flier

Monday, November 16, 2020
Khrystyna North (Bradley Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Synthetic introns enable mutation-dependent targeting of cancer cells"
2:00 | remote presentation link | flier

Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Anja Ollodart (Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Developing a multiplexed mutation rate assay to screen clinically relevant variants of Msh2 in S. cerevisiae"
11:00 | remote presentation link | flier

Thursday, August 20, 2020
Bryan Andrews (Fields Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Analysis of protein adaptation from high throughput mutagenesis studies"
10:00 | remote presentation link available at https://depts.washington.edu/gsrestrc/remote.htm

Friday, August 7, 2020
Claudia Espinoza (Berg Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30 | held remotely | defense recording

Thursday, August 6, 2020
Clara Amorosi (Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"High-throughput methods of studying human cytochrome P450 activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
11:00 | held remotely | defense recording

Monday, June 15, 2020
Serena Liu (Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:00 | defense will be held remotely | defense recording

Thursday, May 21, 2020
Sarah Hilton (Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Modeling the effects of site-specific amino-acid preferences on protein evolution"
2:00 | defense will be held remotely | defense recording

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Nick Hasle (Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Using visual phenotypes to dissect sequence-function relationships and complex drug responses”
1:30 | defense will be held remotely

Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Melissa Chiasson (Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Interpreting variation in pharmacogenes using multiplex assays”
1:30 | defense will be held remotely

Friday, March 20, 2020
Jacob Schreiber (Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering)
12:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, March 13, 2020
Emily Killingbeck (Swanson Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:30, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wei Zhou (Fields Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, December 5, 2019
Colby Samstag (Pallanck Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Is there selection against somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations?"
1:00, Foege Auditorium | flier

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Daniel Chee (Stamatoyannopoulos Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Role of Transcription Factor-MicroRNA Feedback Circuits in the Canalization of Human Regulatory Networks"
3:30, Foege Auditorium | flier

Friday, October 25, 2019
Aaron Wolf (Akey Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The Distribution of Neanderthal Ancestry Across Populations And Within Genomes"
10:00, Foege Auditorium | flier

Friday, September 6, 2019
Jonathan Packer (Trapnell Lab, Waterston Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“A molecular atlas of C. elegans development at single cell and single lineage resolution”
1:00, Foege Auditorium | flier

Thursday, August 8, 2019
Amanda Larson (King Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:15, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Anne Clark (Akey Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, July 11, 2019
Lindsay Pino (MacCoss Lab, Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:15, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, May 30, 2019
John Lazar (Stamatoyannopoulos Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
11:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Ken Chen (Kaeberlein Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Divergent Single-Cell Trajectories in Homeostatic Control and Genome Instability during Aging"
2:00, Health Sciences T-733

Monday, May 20, 2019
Tim Durham (Noble Lab, Waterston Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Toward comprehensive characterization of chromatin state” 
10:30, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, May 16, 2019
Lauren Saunders (Trapnell Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Molly Gasperini (Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Efficiently searching for enhancers and their target genes in the human genome"
9:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Seung-been Steven Lee (Nickerson Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Automating the Interpretation of Pharmacogenetic Data"
2:00, Health Sciences K-069

Monday, May 13, 2019
Katherine Xue (Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Evolutionary dynamics of influenza virus across spatiotemporal scales"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, May 13, 2019
Madeleine Geisheker (Eichler Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
12:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, May 6, 2019
Juhye Lee (Bloom Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
11:00, Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC

Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Andrew Hill (Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Monday, April 29, 2019
Seungsoo Kim (Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Sam Entwisle (Villen Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
11:00, Health Sciences T-747

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Ethan Ahler (Fowler Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"High-throughput mutagenesis identifies regulatory interactions and drug resistance mechanisms in Src kinase"
3:00, Health Sciences T-498 | flier

Monday, March 11, 2019
Junyue Cao (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Cell state and fate characterization by highthroughput single cell genomics"
2:30, Foege Auditorium | flier

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Alex Eng (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Model-based computational methods to aid the design of synthetic microbial communities”
10:00, Health Sciences T-639 | flier

Friday, February 15, 2019
Cecilia Noecker (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Metabolic modeling-based tools for integrative microbiome data analysis”
12:00, Health Sciences D-209 | flier

Monday, January 14, 2019
Hannah Pliner (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Algorithms for modeling gene regulation and determining cell type using single-cell molecular profiles”
2:30, Foege Auditorium | flier

Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Damon May (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A learned embedding for efficient joint analysis of millions of mass spectra"
1:30, Health Sciences K-069 | flier

Thursday, November 8, 2018
Colin McNally (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Evolutionary Consequences of Metabolic Competition and Cooperation in Microbial Communities"
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Jorgen Nelson (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
9:00, Health Sciences T-733

Friday, May 25, 2018
Max Dougherty (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
11:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, May 24, 2018
Heather Machkovech (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC | flier

Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Xiaojie Qiu (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
“A Computational Framework to Resolve Complex Developmental Trajectories and Regulatory Networks from scRNA-seq”
3:00, Health Sciences T-739 | flier

Monday, May 14, 2018
Jason Klein (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Massively Parallel Characterization of Enhancers in Evolution and Disease"
11:00, Foege Auditorium | flier

Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Aaron Seo (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genomic Insights into Inherited Bone Marrow Failure"
4:00, Foege Auditorium | flier

Monday, April 16, 2018
Kelsey Lynch (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"The limiting DNA replication initiation factors Sld2 and Sld3 influence replication origin efficiency independent of time of origin firing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
1:30, Health Sciences RR-134 | flier

Thursday, March 15, 2018
Greg Findlay (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, February 16, 2018
Brian Searle (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:30, Foege Auditorium
flier

Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Alex Hu (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Regression Models to Detect and Quantify Peptides from Mass Spectra"
11:00, Health Sciences K-069
flier

Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Han-Yin Yang (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Development of amyloidosis typing method and data acquisition strategies using tandem mass spectrometry”
2:00, Foege Auditorium
flier

Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Alex Mason (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Foege Auditorium
"Defining More Rules of Environmental and Phenotypic Buffering"
flier

Thursday, December 7, 2017
Vanessa Gray (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
4:30, Health Sciences T-747
“Learning from Large-scale Mutagenesis Data”
flier

Friday, November 17, 2017: Stephanie Battle (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Health Sciences K-069

Wednesday, October 18, 2017: Vijay Ramani (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Massively parallel analysis of nucleic acid structure"
12:30, Foege Auditorium | flier

Friday, September 1, 2017: Joe Sanchez (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Defective replication initiation results in locus specific chromosome breakage and a ribosome deficiency in budding yeast"
3:00, Health Sciences K-069 | flier

Tuesday, July 11, 2017: Matt Rich (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Massively Parallel Analysis of the Functional Effects of Mutations" | flier
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Friday, July 7, 2017: Aaron McKenna (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
11:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, March 13, 2017: Mike Doud (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Comprehensively mapping the effects of mutations to influenza virus"
3:00, Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC

Tuesday, February 28, 2017: Jenny Andrie (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A cradle-to-grave analysis of cis-regulatory variation in yeast"
10:30, Foege Auditorium

Monday, November 28, 2016: Sonia Ting (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, October 31, 2016: Elyse Hope (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Leveraging natural isolates and experimental evolution to characterize biofilm-related traits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
1:00, Health Sciences D-209

Wednesday, August 17, 2016: Keolu Fox (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Next-generation ABO genetics & genomics"
9:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, August 16, 2016: William Edelman (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The identification of candidate substrates of the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 by mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, August 3, 2016: Rachel Gittelman (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Positive selection in the human lineage across time scales"
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Friday, June 10, 2016: Michael Duyzend (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Understanding the genetic basis of phenotype variability in individuals with neurocognitive disorders"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, June 8, 2016: Jennifer McCreight (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“The Evolution of microRNA in Primates”
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Friday, June 3, 2016: David Young (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"High throughput determination of sequence-function relationships in protein and RNA"
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, May 19, 2016: Rob Lawrence (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Systematic proteomic strategies to map the human signaling landscape"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, May 16, 2016: Max Press (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Understanding human genome regulation through entropic graph-based regularization and submodular optimization"
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, May 10, 2016: Max Libbrecht (Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering)
"Understanding human genome regulation through entropic graph-based regularization and submodular optimization"
9:00, Health Sciences K-069

Friday, March 11, 2016: Matthew Snyder (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Expanding the accuracy, resolution, and breadth of cell-free DNA investigation"
10:30, Foege Auditorium

Monday, February 29, 2016: Caitlin Gamble (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Modulation of Translation Efficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Codon Pairs"

Friday, December 18, 2015: Aaron Miller (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Scalable continuous culture based approaches for understanding evolution and cancer"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, December 11, 2015: Daniel Kim (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Atheroprotective targets on high-density lipoprotein: phospholipid transfer protein and paraoxonase-1 and their effects on cerebrovascular disease”
1:30, Health Sciences D-209

Tuesday, December 8, 2015: Sam Lancaster (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"The genetic and molecular contributions of single alleles to interspecific hybrid Saccharomyces"
3:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, November 17, 2015: Xander Nuttle (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Human-specific duplicate genes: new frontiers for disease and evolution"
3:30, Foege Auditorium

Friday, July 31: Benjamin Vernot (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
3:15, Foege Auditorium

Monday, June 1, 2015: Nate Peters (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
1:00, Hogness Auditorium

Friday, April 17, 2015: Tzitziki Lemus-Vergara (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"AGO1 buffers phenotypic variation and uncouples flowering time traits in A. thaliana "
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, March 2, 2015: Adam Gordon (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Tools and challenges for the implementation of next-generation sequencing in clinical pharmacogenetics"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, February 2, 2015: Roie Levy (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Assembly Rules of the Microbiome"
1:00, Hogness Auditorium

Wednesday, December 10, 2014: Sean Schneider (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, December 10, 2014: Alessandra Sullivan (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, December 4, 2014: Jeff Staples (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
12:00, Ocean Teaching Building 014

Tuesday, December 2, 2014: Josh Burton (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, November 25, 2014: Blake Hovde (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, September 11, 2014: Sharon Greenblum (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Metagenomic systems biology: frameworks for modeling and characterization of the gut microbiome"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, August 21, 2014: Keisha Carlson (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A novel sequencing method to explore two molecular mechanisms of rapid adaptation"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, August 14, 2014: Caitlin Connelly (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The evolution and function of regulatory regions in yeast"
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: Anna Sunshine (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The effects of aneuploidy on cellular fitness and aging"
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, July 18, 2014: Jeff Vierstra (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Organization and evolution of transcription factor occupancy within the human genome"
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, July 17, 2014: Jennifer Lachowiec (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Tracking buffers of mutation and noise to the genome"
1:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, June 16, 2014: Nik Krumm (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Discovery and convergence of inherited mutations in autism spectrum disorder"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Thursday, June 5, 2014: Akash Kumar (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Mutational Heterogeneity in Cancer: Lessons from the Brain and Prostate"
11:00, Foege Auditorium

Monday, March 10, 2014: Leslie Emery (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, March 5, 2014: Leslie Itsara (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
1:30, Health Sciences K-069

Friday, February 28, 2014: Andrew Adey (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Comprehensive, precision genomics"
11:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, November 19, 2013: Tom Pohl (Ph.D. in Molecular-Cellular Biology)
"Identification and Characterization of cis-acting DNA Elements that Regulate Early Origin Activation"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, September 20, 2013: Peter Sudmant (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30, Health Sciences D-209

Friday, September 6, 2013: Melody Palmer (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The sperm proteome of the red abalone and the discovery and characterization of an abundant, rapidly evolving acrosome protein"
2:00, Health Sciences K-069

Friday, August 23, 2013: Cailyn Spurrell (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:30, Health Sciences K-069

Thursday, August 15, 2013: Katrina Claw (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Comparative proteomics and evolutionary analysis of primate reproductive proteins"
1:00, Health Sciences K-069

Tuesday, June 18, 2013: Jacob Kitzman (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"New technologies for sequencing and interpreting genomes"
11:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, June 7, 2013: Alan Rubin (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Expression-based segmentation of the Drosophila genome"
1:00, Health Sciences T-439

Thursday, May 30, 2013: Cait Rippey (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Chimeric Genes Generated by Copy Number Variation as a Mutational Mechanism in Schizophrenia"
2:00, Health Sciences K-069

Wednesday, May 29, 2013: Chad Weisbrod (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Development and application of accurate mass measurements for large-scale protein interaction and proteome studies"
3:00, Orin Smith Auditorium, South Lake Union

Thursday, May 23, 2013: Andrew Stergachis (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Global measurements of human transcription factor occupancy: Insights into development and genome evolution"
2:30, Foege Auditorium

Monday, May 20, 2013: Ben Whiddon (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genetically altered mice reveal roles in physiology and behavior for neurons that release melanin-concentrating hormone"
3:30, Oceanography Teaching Building, 014

Friday, May 17, 2013: Jarrett Egertson (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Development of Data Independent Acquisition Techniques for the Analysis of Protein Mixtures by Tandem Mass Spectrometry"
10:30, Health Sciences K-069

Thursday, February 14, 2013: Ray Malfavon-Borja (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Learning from the past: Searching for novel TRIM, CypA, and TRIMCyp antiviral factors in primates."
11:00, Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Monday, February 4, 2013: Evelyn Vincow (Ph.D. in Neurobiology & Behavior)
"Mitochondrial Turnover In Vivo: Role of the PINK1-Parkin Pathway"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Friday, October 19, 2012: Kevin Roach (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Conflict and Coevolution Shape the Primate Kinetochore"
10:00, Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Thursday, September 27, 2012: Dan Skelly (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Patterns and determinants of variation in functional genomics phenotypes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
12:30, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, September 5, 2012: Joe Hiatt (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Molecular tagging to overcome limitations of massively parallel sequencing"
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Sarah Ng (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Next Generation Mendelian Genetics"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: Renee George (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Using exome sequencing to study adaptive evolution in non-human primates and human populations"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, July 31, 2012: Rupali Patwardhan (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Massively parallel functional dissection of regulatory elements"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, June 19, 2012: Matt Maurano (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Regulatory variation and human disease"
10:30, Health Sciences K-069

Wednesday, May 30, 2012: Ben Smith (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:00, Foege Auditorium
"Androgen Receptor Regulation of Germ Cell Migration across Sertoli Cell Tight Junctions"

Thursday, May 24, 2012: Kyle Siebenthall (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
3:00, Pelton Auditorium, FHCRC

Thursday, January 26, 2012: Greg Finney (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Computational Tools and Analyses for Differential Label-Free Proteomics"
2:00, Health Sciences K-069

Thursday, December 8, 2011: Max Boeck (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
10:00, Foege Auditorium

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: Sara Di Rienzi (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Friday, August 5, 2011: Nick Coley (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Interactions Among Mechanosensory Hair Cells and Support Cells During Development and Regeneration"
9:30, Health Sciences T-625

Thursday, August 4, 2011: Ryan Emerson (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Molecular Evolution of Zinc Finger Transcription Factors"
1:30, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, May 24, 2011: Alex Nord (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Next-generation sequencing to assay copy number variation: Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer patients and somatic mutations in their tumors"
3:30, Foege N-130 (BioE seminar room)

Monday, May 23, 2011: Andy Itsara (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Detection and Characterization of Human Copy-Number Variation"
3:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, May 17, 2011: Lisa Beutler (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The role of NMDA receptors in amphetamine-mediated behavior"
2:30, Fishery Science 102

Tuesday, April 12, 2011: Oliver Serang (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"A practically efficient graph-theoretic approach to protein identification in mass spectrometry"
2:00, Foege Auditorium

Tuesday, March 1, 2011: James Thompson (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Comparative Modeling of Protein Structures"

Monday, November 15, 2010: Carlos Araya(Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Application of Sequencing Technologies to Study Genomes, Transcription and Protein Variation"

Monday, October 25, 2010: Tom Nicholas (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Identification and characterization of structural variation in the modern domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris"

Friday, July 30, 2010: Diane Dickel (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genomic Analysis of Transcribed Microsatellite Repeats in Psychiatric Disease and Primate Evolution"

Wednesday, June 9, 2010: Angela Poole (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The mechanisms underlying mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease"

Friday, May 28, 2010: Rori Rohlfs (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The role of null distributions in statistical genetics"

Friday, May 14, 2010: Brig Mecham (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
“Supervised Normalization of Microarrays”

Tuesday, March 30, 2010: Cindy Desmarais (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Exploring Patterns of Polymorphism and Divergence in the Human Genome"

Monday, March 15, 2010: Graham McVicker (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"The Roles of Natural Selection and Germline Gene Expression in Primate Genome Evolution"

Wednesday, February 24, 2010: Kevin Schutz (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)

Thursday, January 21, 2010: Troy Zerr (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Genotyping Human Genomic Structural Variation"

Monday, January 11, 2010: Shameek Biswas (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Statistical Methods for Analyzing and Interpreting High-Dimensional Phenotypes"

Wednesday, January 6, 2010: Jeff Kidd (Ph.D. in Genome Sciences)
"Mapping and Sequencing Human Genomic Structural Variation"

Thursday, December 10, 2009: Aaron Hinz (Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology)
"Genetic analysis of a stress response that protects Pseudomonas aeruginosa from aminoglycoside antibiotics"

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

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"