Dissertation Defenses
Upcoming:
to be rescheduled
Deanna Plubell | MacCoss Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
Tuesday, October 31
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
Thursday, November 9
Taylor Wang | Dunham Lab, Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology
9:00 | Foege Auditorium |
remote viewing option
Tuesday, December 12
Sayeh Gorjifard | Queitsch / Cuperus Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
10:00 | Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option
Past Defenses:
Monday, September 18
Chengxiang Qiu | Shendure Lab, Ph.D. in Genome Sciences
1:00
| Foege Auditorium | remote viewing option
Thursday, September 7
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
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
Alan Min | Noble Lab, Ph.D. in Statistics
"Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data"
10:00 |
Foege Auditorium
| remote viewing option
Thursday, June 15
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"