Outstanding Mid-Thesis Research Award Winners
In recognition of a student whose research, in the judgement of the faculty, profoundly impacts their field.
2023
Erica Kwiatkowski
Parhyale hawaiensis: a genetically-tractable model organism for the study of circatidal rhythms
Mentor: Patrick Emery, PhD
2022
Shawn Egri
Molecular study of amino acids
Mentor: Kuang Shen, PhD
Kathleen Morrill
Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes and enables mapping of psychiatric disease related variants
Mentor: Elinor Karlsson, PhD
2021
Mariana Noto Guillen
Assembling stable syntrophic Escherichia coli communities by comprehensively identifying beneficiaries of secreted goods
Mentor: Amir Mitchell, PhD
Nicholas Peterson
Surveillance of Host- and Pathogen-derived metabolites in innate immunity
Mentor: Read Pukkila-Worley, MD
I-Hao Wang
Reconstruction of Olfactory Neural Circuits Using Single Molecule Approaches
Mentor: Paul Greer, PhD
2020
Chantal Ferguson
ApoE RNAi-modulation: Novel Strategy for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Mentor: Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
Kevin Gao
Perturbing Nucleic Acid Sensing in Murine Models to Identify Novel Mechanisms of Auto-immunity and Auto-inflammation
Mentor: Ann Rothstein, PhD
2019
Georgia Gunner
Elucidating Roles for Microglia in Sensory Experience-dependent Synaptic Remodeling
Mentor: Dorothy Schafer, PhD
2018
Julia Alterman
Di-valent srRNAs: New Chemical Scaffold for Modulation of Gene Expression in CNS
Mentor: Anastasia Khvorova, PhD
Ameer Elaimy
Regulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cells by VEGF/Neuropilin Signaling
Mentor: Arthur Mercurio, PhD
2017
Janelle Hayes
Structure and Mechanism of an Exceptionally Powerful Molecular Motor
Mentor: Brian Kelch, PhD
2016
Arvin Iracheta-Vellve
The roles of the inflammasome and IRF3-mediated signaling in alcoholic liver disease
Mentor: Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD
Alison Philbrook
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development and remodeling
Mentor: Michael Francis, PhD
2015
Spencer Adams
Molecular and Organismal-level Studies of Bioluminescence
Mentor: Stephen Miller, PhD
Leyuan Ma
Targeting Drug Resistance and Residual Cancer Stem Cells in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Mentor: Michael Green, MD, PhD