IMSD Graduate Students
Joash Lake
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Santiago Acero Bedoya
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Julian Bertini
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Sarah Ann King
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Developmental, Regeneration, & Stem Cell Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Wu, Xiaoyang
- Thesis Project:Designing skin grafts/ tissue engineering
Carlos Cortez
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Joe Thornton
- Thesis Project: The Evolutionary Origin of Allostery and Heterotetramerization in Hemoglobin
Elena Cortes
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Biochem
- Thesis Advisor: Engin Ozkan
- Thesis Project: Molecular Analysis of Kainate Receptor Regulation by Neto Auxiliary Subunits
Nadya Ali
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Evolutionary Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Rachel Santymire
- Thesis Project: Understanding Population Viability and the Mechanisms Behind Infertility in the Black-footed ferret (Mustelid nigripes)
Selina Baeza-Loya
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Ruth Anne Eatock
- Thesis Project: Investigating the contribution of sodium channel diversity to vestibular ganglion neuron firing patterns.
Elaine Kouame
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Bana Jabri
- Thesis Project: The role of Reovirus in oral tolerance and celiac disease.
Erick Bayala
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Intergrative Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Marcus Kronforst
- Thesis Project: How to paint a butterfly? The developmental basis of butterfly color pattern variation
Eric McLean
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Jingyi Fei
- Thesis Project: Single-cell Analysis of sRNA Expression during Salmonella Infection
Gabrielle Watkins
- Matriculated: 2014
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Christian Hansel
- Thesis Project: Synaptic and intrinsic mechanisms of learning in the cerebellum
Jorden Lane
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Daria Esterhazy
- Thesis Project: Understanding how lymphatics shape immune microenvironments
Matthew McDonough
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Jonathan Staley
- Thesis Project: Early transcription termination mediated by interrupted splicing
Jorge Alvarado
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac
- Thesis Project: Modification of GPR56 Signaling via Synthetic Antibody Application
Victor Mendoza
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Mol. Metabolism & Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Lev Becker
- Thesis Project: The immune system and its role in diabetes and heart disease
Carolina Castro-Rivera
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Fred Garcia
- Thesis Project: Effects of intermittent hypoxia in learning and memory
Martin Sepulveda
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Marisa Alegre
- Thesis Project: Gut-restricted microbiota effect on distal skin graft outcomes
Jimmy Elias
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Alex Ruthenburg
- Thesis Project : Epigenetic gene regulation via non-coding RNAs
Elisa Pabon
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Harriet De Wit
- Thesis Project : Effect of alcohol on risk of smoking relapse
Meghan O'Connell
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: David Kovar
- Thesis Project : Mechanisms of actin cytoskeleton self-organization
Dayana Delgado
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Public Health Sciences
- Thesis Advisor: Brandon Pierce
- Thesis Project : Genetic determinants of telomere length in a Bangladeshi population and disparities in genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer initiation
Matthew Perez-Neut
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Yingming Zhao
- Thesis Project : Identification of novel histone mark reader proteins
Briana Banks
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Jasmine Fuerte-Stone
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Noah Pena
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Tao Pan
- Thesis Project : Characterizing the function and mechanism of the low complexity regions of m6A reader protein YTHDC1
Anthony Osuma
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Thesis Project : Effects of disrupted oxygen homeostasis on hippocampal physiology
Maile Hollinger
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Anne Sperling
- Thesis Project : Protection against allergic inflammation using bacterial exopolysaccharides
Edgar Correa
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Thesis Project: Sex-specific motor neuron development and maintenance
Alexis Thomas
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Phoebe Rice
- Thesis Project: Determining the regulation of SCC elements in Staphylococci spp
Evelyn Campbell
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Cathy Nagler
- Thesis Project: An Investigation on the Role of TLR4 signaling on Saa induction and allergy development
Cody Hernandez
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Jonathan Staley
- Thesis Project: Mechanism and Physiological Role of Prp22 in Mediating 3’ss Selection
Roy Morgan
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Barbara Kee
- Thesis Project: Transcriptional Regulation of NKT Cell Development by Ets1 Transcription Factor
Eloesa McSorely
- Matriculated: 2014
- Graduate Program: Public Health Sciences
- Thesis Advisor: Diane Lauderdale
- Thesis Project: Cognitive Aging in a Gene x Environment Context and Sleep and Cognition
IMSD Graduates
Daniel Ruiz, PhD
- Graduated: 2019
- Matriculated: 2014
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Robert Sargis
- Thesis Project: Developmental misprogramming of metabolism by environmental chemicals that disrupt glucocorticoid action
Rey Ayon, MS
- Graduated: 2017
- Matriculated: 2014
- Graduate Program: Evolutionary Biology
- Advisor: Rachel Santymire
Corey Smith
- Graduated: 2019
- Matriculated: 2014
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: Patrick La Rivière
- Thesis Project : Image Reconstruction in Fluorescence Microscopy
Juan Manuel Vazquez
- Graduated: 2020
- Matriculated: 2015
- Graduate Program: Human Genetics
- Thesis Advisor: Vincent Lynch
- Thesis Project: The Role of Gene Duplication in Peto’s Paradox in Long-Lived Lineages