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Recent Dissertations


Naya Eady

To B or Not to B: B Cell Development and Antibody Responses to EHV-1 in Horses
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Bettina Wagner


Sebastián Llanos-Soto

Epidemiological, Statistical, and Modeling Approaches to Understanding and Controlling Infectious Disease Transmission and Antibiotic Resistance in Food Production Systems
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Concentration: Population Medicine and Epidemiology
Principal Investigator: Renata Ivanek Miojevic


Bom Nae Rin Lee

Exploring Host-Directed Therapeutics in Tuberculosis
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: David Russell


Chloe Cheng

AQP1—A Regulatory Factor Associated With Brown Adipose Tissue Silencing to Combat Obesity and Metabolic Disease
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Joeva Barrow


Camille Holmes

On the Nose: Mucosal Immune Responses During Equine Herpesvirus Type 1 Infection
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Bettina Wagner


Viviana Maymi

Cell Intrinsic Factors Influence CD8+ T Cell Fate Decisions Following Acute and Chronic Infection
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Brian Rudd


Sarah Post

Identification Of A Novel Cell-Penetrating Protein Derived From The Human Gut Microbiome With Potential For Intracellular Therapeutic Delivery
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Ilana Brito


Jessica Caroline Gomes Noll

Identification and Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus Proteins and Their Contribution to Protection
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Diego Diel


Meagan Keller

Metabolic Gridlock: Interrogating the Nexus of Bacterial Central Metabolism and Antibiotic Susceptibilit
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Tobias Doerr


Joshua Jones

Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Systems-Level Interplay Between Host And Gut Microbiota
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Ilana Brito


Caylee Falvo

Understanding the Drivers of Viral Shedding in Bats: The Role of Diet and Immune Function
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Raina Plowright


Timothy Robinette

The Role Of Sirt1 In The Metabolic And Psychiatric Disorder Anorexia Nervosa & Investigating Proteostasis Renewal In The Immortal Germline
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Soon Hon Cheong


Dan Crowley

Using Serology to Understand Bat-Virus Interactions Across Scales
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Raina Plowright


Liangdao Li

Efficient Generation of Primordial Germ Cells and CRISPR Perturbation Screens Identify Epigenetic Regulators Impacting Primordial Germ Cell Development
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: John Schimenti


James Miller

A Comparative Species Approach to Understand the Role of MiRNAs in Mammary Gland Health and Disease
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Gerlinde Van de Walle


James Mullman

Stressing the Importance of SIRT5 in Cancer: How SIRT5 Loss Alters Glycosylation and Ribosome Biology
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Robert Weiss


Kieran Koch-Laskowski

From Paint Strokes to Pixels: Picturing Metabolic Health through the Gut at the Physiological, Cellular, and Transcriptomic Levels
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Praveen Sethupathy


Haewon (May) Byun

Virus-Host Interactions and the Impact on Host Cellular Mechanism
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Concentration: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Principal Investigator: Hector Aguilar-Carreno


Rosanna Ma

Functional examination of long noncoding RNAs and RNA therapy in fibrolamellar carcinoma
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Praveen Sethupathy


Seona Lee

Uncovering The Role of SOX6 in Stem Cell Heterogeneity in Skin
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Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Principal Investigator: Tudorita Tumbar