IMSD Graduate Students
Claire Gray
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Human Genetics
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Gianna Davis
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Ming Xu
- Thesis Project: TBD
Karen Velez
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Nina Amarandos
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Peter Savage
- Thesis Project: TBD
Chisondi Warioba
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: Timonthy Carroll
- Thesis Project: Use of DTI and fMRI in the detection of functional conductivity after ischemia
Nazik Elmekki
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Laurie Comstock
- Thesis Project: Bacteroidetes genes important to survival in the mammalian gut
Indya Weathers
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac & Engin Ozkan
- Thesis Project: Revealing functional roles for cross talk between axon guidance pathways
Lucas Dyer
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: David Pincus
- Thesis Project: System Mechanics of Cellular Stress Responses
Matthew McDonough
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Jonathan Staley
- Thesis Project: Early transcription termination mediated by interrupted splicing
Santiago Acero Bedoya
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Tom Gajewski
- Thesis Project: Dendritic cell-intrinsic PTPN22 negatively regulates anti-tumor immunity
Elena Cortes
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Biochem
- Thesis Advisor: Engin Ozkan
- Thesis Project: Molecular Analysis of Kainate Receptor Regulation by Neto Auxiliary Subunits
Moriah Wilson
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Metabolism
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Alyssa Guzman
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Anahi Bustillos Salazar
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Lizette Zavala
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Cassandra Hayne
- Thesis Project: TBH
Brandon Grandison
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Joshua McKeever
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Andrew Koh
- Thesis Project: Role of Vitamin D Receptor in Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cell Promiscuous Gene Expression
Ashleigh Polo
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Alfredo Garcia
- Thesis Project: Assessing metabolic changes in the hippocampus after intermittent hypoxia
Carolina Castro-Rivera
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Fred Garcia
- Thesis Project: Effects of intermittent hypoxia in learning and memory
Carlos Cortez
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Joe Thornton
- Thesis Project: The Evolutionary Origin of Allostery and Heterotetramerization in Hemoglobin
Jimmy Elias
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Alex Ruthenburg
- Thesis Project : Epigenetic gene regulation via non-coding RNAs
Jermaine Austin
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Dylan Cook
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Selena Martinez
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Evolutional Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Kenneth Angielczyk
- Thesis Project: Patterns of evolution and ecosystem recovery following mass extinctions
Ramses Ngachoko
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Computational Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Melina Hale
- Thesis Project: Proprioception in Substrate-Based Postures of the Dwarf Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco)
Christian Checkcinco
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Raghavendra Mirmira
- Thesis Project: Validating Knockout of G-Coupled Protein Receptor 31
Rio Salazar
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Robert Carrillo
- Thesis Project: Investigating the cell surface protein mechanisms underlying synaptic partner recognition
Jay Fuerte-Stone
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Mark Mimee
- Thesis Project: Engineering Bacteroides prophage for payload delivery in the human gut
Joash Lake
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Eugene Chang
- Thesis Project: Determining the role of Bacteroides fragilis in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Jorge Alvarado
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac
- Thesis Project: Modification of GPR56 Signaling via Synthetic Antibody Application
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