Graduate Program: Current Students
 

Kelly A. McLaughlin, Ph.D
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor of Biology

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Recent Graduates

Ranjith Anand, PhD
"Analysis of Replication Barriers in Helicase Mutants of the Model Eukaryote Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"

Minda Berbeco, PhD
"Temperate Forest Carbon Cycling: the importance of tree species in a changing global environment"

Colleen Butler, PhD
"Ecology and physiology of green roof plant communities"

Vera Egorova
(Coursework Masters)
Moscow State University, M.S. Physics
Mirkin Laboratory

Daniel Kane, Ph.D.
"Planes, Trains and Polymerases: an analysis of polymerase action during DNA double-strand break repair in Drosophila"

Jenny Lenkowski, PhD
"Exploring the effects of the herbicide atrazine on tadpoles in the model amphibian Xenopus laevis during organ morphogenesis"

Huai-ti Lin, PhD
"Biomechanical Strategies for Locomotion in soft-Bodied Animals"

Tegan Morton, MS
"Invassion consequences and ecology: evaluation of community and environment sinteractions of an exotic, invasive plant, garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)"

Ansel Payne, MS
"Aspects of the reproductive biology of the European wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with a focus on nest site selection"

Michael Simon
"Tension-based crawling in Manduca sexta: contributions by motor coordination, proprioception, and gross tissue movements"

Adam South, Ph.D.
"Seminal Influences: The Role of Nuptial Gifts in Sequential Episodes of Sexual Selection"

Ayron Strauch, PhD
"Drivers of water quality and their consequences for social-ecological systems in semi-arid Africa: Case studies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe"

Christine Surka
"Replication Fork Stalling at Fragile X CGG Repeats in Mammalian Cells"

Brian Tavernia
"Evaluating violations of modeling assumptions as potential contributors to apparently inconsistent landscape effects within imperiled ecological systems"

Alexandra Thorn
"Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Examining the Interplay between Vascular Constraints and Plant Responses to Resource Heterogeneity"

Susan Weiner, PhD
"Towards a life history explanation of the origin and maintenance of eusociality: A role specific energy budget for the primitively eusocial paper wasp Polistes dominulus"

Noah Wilson-Rich, PhD
"Genetic, individual, and group facilitation of disease resistance in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and two species of paper wasps (Polistes dominulus and P. fuscatus)"

Linnea van Griethuijsen, Ph.D.
"Behavioral responses to mechano-sensory information in a soft-bodied terrestrial animal"


Jiahui Yang, PhD
"The Role of Histone Acetylation in CAG/CTG Repeat Stability"

Amy Yu, PhD
"Synthesis-Dependent Microhomology-Mediated End Joining: A Unifying Model For Multiple DNA Double Strand Break Repair Outcomes"
 
 

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