Andrea Andress Huacachino
Mentor: Trevor Penning, PhD

Thesis Title: Role of AKR1C3 in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Associated Lipotoxicity

Kyle Barrie
Mentor: Roberto Dominguez, PhD

Thesis Title: Structural bases for regulation of actin filament ends by diverse factors

Jenna Beyer
Mentor: George Burslem, PhD

Thesis Title: Developing a method for protein editing in mammalian cells

Gabrielle Blizard
Mentor: Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD

Thesis Title: Imaging and control of cells and their neighbors

Adeola Fagunloye
Mentor: Kara Bernstein, PhD

Thesis Title: THE SHU COMPLEX INTERACTS WITH THE REPLICATIVE HELICASE TO BYPASS DNA DAMAGE

Sarah Gardner
Mentor: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD

Thesis Title: Molecular Characterization of 3B-hydroxysteriod-D5-C27-steroid Oxidoreductase and Discovery of Novel Inhibitors for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Stacy Guzman
Mentor: Ingo Helbig, MD

Christian Loo
Mentor: Rahul Kohli, MD, PhD

Thesis Title: Methodological advancements to enable longer reads for epigenetic sequencing and discrimination of the ternary code of DNA

Laura Pinheiro
Mentor: Kathryn Wellen, PhD

Jennifer Ramirez
Mentors: E. James Petersson, PhD; Elizabeth Rhoades, PhD

Thesis Title: BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES TO INTERROGATE TAU AND ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN INTERACTIONS

Nicole Raniszewski
Mentor: George Burslem, PhD

Thesis Title: Sortase and chemical biology as tools to study ubiquitination

Janice Reynaga
Mentor: Andres Blanco, PhD

Thesis Title: A DOMAIN FOCUSED CRISPR SCREEN IDENTIFIES MEAF6 AS A VULNERABILITY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

Derick Rosario
Mentor: David Cormode, PhD

Thesis Title: NANOPARTICLE-BASED CONTRAST AGENTS FOR CT IMAGING, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, AND OTHER BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Kollin Schultz
Mentor: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD
Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation

Thesis Title: Structural Dynamics of Human Fatty Acid Synthase (FASN)

Yi Sun
Mentor: Nikolaos Sgourakis, PhD

Thesis Title: Unraveling the molecular basis of MHC-I antigen proofreading by the chaperone TAPBPR

Julianna Supplee
Mentors: Ronen Marmorstein, PhD; Kathryn Wellen, PhD

Thesis Title: Structural, biochemical and cancer related roles of ACLY splice isoforms

Julia Tasca
Mentor: Roberto Bonasio, PhD

Thesis Title: INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTIONAL PROTEIN-RNA INTERACTIONS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY

Claire Woodward
Mentor: Nikolaos Sgourakis, PhD

Thesis Title: Characterizing the structure and dynamics of adaptive immune proteins to inform immunotherapy design