Recent Dissertation Titles

Listed below are the dissertation thesis titles authored by doctoral degree conferees in the past two academic years. Titles are listed with student’s name and mentor.

"Novel Astrocyte-Specific Transgenic Mice Identify Distinct Populations of Transient Amplifying Progenitor Cells and Long-Lived Neural Stem Cells in the Subgranular Zone of the Adult Mouse Brain"

Lori Nicole Loomis Boies
Mentor: Robert W. Bachoo, MD, PhD

"Telomere Length Studies in Human Cancer Cells"

Christen Marie Buseman
Mentor: Jerry W. Shay, PhD 

"Ku 70 Binding Protein 5 (KUB5), a Novel Factor in DNA Double Strand Break Repair and Radio-Resistance in Human Breast Cancer"

Amy Ann Rommel
Mentor: David A. Boothman, PhD

"Identification and Characterization of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Stem Cells"

James Patrick Sullivan
Mentor: John D. Minna, MD

"Human Short Hairpin RNA Library Screening to Dissect Pathways Involved in Telomerase Actions"

Hirotoshi Hoshiyama
Mentor: Jerry W. Shay, PhD

"Anti-VEGF Therapy Modulates Immune Cell Infiltration and Function in Multiple Breast Cancer Models"

Kristi Dawn Lynn
Mentor: Rolf Brekken, PhD

"The Use of C.elegans to Identify Mutations that Confer Drug Resistance, Using Hemiasterlin as an Example"

Eduardo Cardenas
Mentor: Michael G. Roth, PhD

"Colon Cancer Initiation and Progress"

Ugur Eskiocak
Mentor: Jerry W. Shay, PhD 

"Mechanism of Ubiquitin Induced Activation of Rig-I Like Receptors in Antiviral Innate Immunity"

Xiaomo Jiang
Mentor: Zhijian "James" Chen, PhD

"Calpain 9 Functions in TNF Receptor Mediated Apoptosis"

Gregory T. Kunkel
Mentor: Xiaodong Wang, PhD

"Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Characterizing a New Therapy and Investigating Potential Mechanisms of Resistance"

Laura Anne Sullivan
Mentor: Rolf A. Brekken, PhD

"Radiation Events Underlying Radiation-Induced Gliomagenesis"

Cristel Camacho
Mentor: Sandeep Burma, PhD

"Defining Multiple Steps in Human Telomere End Processing"

Tan Hoi "Tracy" Chow
Mentor: Jerry W. Shay, PhD 

"Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Radioresistance using in vitro and in vivo Brain Tumor Model Systems"

Brian McEllin
Mentors: Sandeep Burma, PhD and Robert Bachoo, MD, PhD

"High-Resolution Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Identifies Common Targets in Rhabdomyosarcoma"

Vera Ashley Paulson
Mentor: John Scott Cameron, MD, PhD

"The RASSF1A Tumor Suppressor Regulates a Cascade of Oncogenic Signals that are Restrained by G1 Checkpoint Mechanisms"

Rosalyn Ram
Mentor: Michael A. White, PhD