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
Ashleigh Polo
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Alfredo Garcia
- Thesis Project: Assessing metabolic changes in the hippocampus after intermittent hypoxia
Lucas Dyer
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: David Pincus
- Thesis Project: System Mechanics of Cellular Stress Responses
Joash Lake
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Eugene Chang
- Thesis Project: Determining the role of Bacteroides fragilis in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Santiago Acero Bedoya
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Tom Gajewski
- Thesis Project: Dendritic cell-intrinsic PTPN22 negatively regulates anti-tumor immunity
Julian Bertini
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: Tim Carroll
- Thesis Project: Using susceptibility weighted MRI to quantify oxygen in the brain
Anahi Bustillos Salazar
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Alyssa Guzman
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 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
Christian Checkcinco
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Raghavendra Mirmira
- Thesis Project: Validating Knockout of G-Coupled Protein Receptor 31
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
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
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
Carlos Cortez
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Joe Thornton
- Thesis Project: The Evolutionary Origin of Allostery and Heterotetramerization in Hemoglobin
Dylan Cook
- Matriculated: 2023
- Graduate Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Nicole Arrellano
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Shannon Elf
- Thesis Project: TBD
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)
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
Briana Banks
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Matthew Brady
- Thesis Project: Determining the effect of chronic psychological stress during puberty and early adulthood on mammary development
Jay Fuerte-Stone
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Mark Mimee
- Thesis Project: Engineering Bacteroides prophage for payload delivery in the human gut
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
Jimmy Elias
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Alex Ruthenburg
- Thesis Project : Epigenetic gene regulation via non-coding RNAs
Elena Cortes
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Biochem
- Thesis Advisor: Engin Ozkan
- Thesis Project: Molecular Analysis of Kainate Receptor Regulation by Neto Auxiliary Subunits