
Kelly A. McLaughlin, Ph.D
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor of Biology |
Forms and procedures for current graduate students:
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Recent Graduates |

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