Theses from 2021
Micro- and Macroevolution of Drab Plumage Color in Birds, Rafael Marcondes
Determinants of Fine-Scale Heterogeneity in Mosquito-Borne Virus Systems, Elizabeth Handly Mayton
Genomic Studies of BEAF-32 in Drosophila, John Keller McKowen III
Evidence for Perchlorate-Coupled Molybdenum and Nickel Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase CO Oxidation and Characterization of Novel Perchlorate-Reducing Haloarchaea, Marisa Russell Myers
Insights into Abscisic Acid and Phosphatidic Acid Signal Transduction Dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana, Ruth Wanjiru Ndathe
The Role of a DedA Family Membrane Protein in Maintaining Extreme Polymyxin Resistance of Burkholderia thailandensis, Pradip Raj Panta
Understanding Potassium Toxicity Stress Responses of the Extremophyte Schrenkiella Parvula Using Systems Biology Approaches, Pramod Pantha
Historical DNA Solves an Evolutionary Mystery and Explains the Origin of a Novel Phenotype in the New World Quails, Jessie Frances Salter
The Evolution of Dietary Adaptations in Small Mammals: From Muscles to Microbes, Mark Thomas Swanson
Investigation of Arabidopsis Extremophyte Relatives, Schrenkiella parvula and Eutrema salsugineum Reveals Different Roads Leading to Salt Stress Tolerance, Kieu-Nga Thi Tran
Informing Viral Surveillance of Oropouche Virus: an emerging arbovirus, Christine E. Walsh
Theses from 2020
Do Ground Layer Microhabitats in Old-Growth Pine Savanna Influence Recruitment of Longleaf Pine?, Matthew Blanchard
Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Reproduction and Ontogeny of Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis), Charles Alexander Brown
Regulation of MPCs and KAT8 During Adipogenesis and Nutritional Regulation, Jasmine Burrell
The Evolution of Bivalve Shell Matrix Proteins, Mark Ira Duhon II
Natural Variation and Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change Stressors in Marine Invertebrates, Joanna Sarah Griffiths
Edwardsiella Ictaluri Is Capable of Persisting in Channel Catfish by Evading Host T Cell and Cell Death Responses, Elizabeth Watts Griggs
The Effects of Radical Containing Combustion Derived Particulate Matter in Adult Mouse Respiratory System, Jeffrey Harding
Habitat Fragmentation and Range Margin Effects on Dispersal and Interactions between Competitors, Rachel Roxann Harman
Biogeography of Biological Control: Spatial Variation in Agent-Host Interactions, Nathan Harms
Insights into Desiccation Tolerance: Properties of Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins from Embryos of Artemia franciscana, Blase Matthew LeBlanc
Function, History, and Ecology in the Exceptional Radiation of Murine Rodents, Jonathan Allen Nations
The Roles of Host Species, Geographic Scale and Environmental Stressors in Shaping the Composition of Coral Microbiomes, Alicia Marie Riegel Parker
Evolution of Green Blood in New Guinea Lizards: Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Comparative Genomics, Zachary Rodriguez
Genomics and Population History of Black-headed Bulbul (Brachypodius atriceps) Color Morphs, Subir B. Shakya
Sexually Dimorphic Oxytocin Receptor-Expressing Neurons In The Anteroventral Periventricular Nucleus Regulates Maternal Behavior, Kaustubh Sharma
Investigating the Role of TORC1 and the Transcription Factor Sfp1p in the Regulation of HMO1 Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Mathew Damien Smith
From Regulation of Secondary Metabolites to Increased Virulence under Sublethal Dosage of Antibiotics: An Unprecedented Role of Global Regulator, MftR, in Burkholderia thailandensis, Sudarshan Singh Thapa
Molecular Mechanisms of Boron Toxicity Tolerance in Plants, Guannan Wang
Functions of CDK/cyclin Complexes in Endoreplication Regulation by the CDK Inhibitor SIAMESE, Kai Wang
Dissertations from 2019
Characterizing the Roles of Nuclear Proteins DBC1, G9A, and GLP in Adipocyte Function and Metabolic Health, Ashley Ann Able
The Use of Geospatial Modeling and Novel Diagnostics to Detect and Map Risk Factors of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Feira de Santana, Brazil, Ryan Harry Avery
The Drosophila Neuroblasts: A Model System For Human Ribosomopathies, Sonu Shrestha Baral
Insights into the Role of Vibrio PecS - a MarR Bacterial Transcriptional Regulator., Nabanita Bhattacharyya
Phylogeny and Evolution of Swallows (Hirundinidae) With a Transcriptomic Perspective on Seasonal Migration, Clare Elisabeth Brown
Composition and Ecology of Avian Communities Along Elevational Gradients in Borneo, Ryan Christian Burner
The Impact of Anthropogenic Noise on Fish Behavior, Communication, and Development, Julie Butler
Dynamical Modeling in Cell Biology with Ordinary Differential Equations, Renee Marie Dale
Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly; In vivo Analysis of the Methanogenic SUF System, Evan Dunkle
Characterization of Bunyamwera, Batai, and Ngari Viruses: Unrecognized Arboviruses of One Health Importance in Rwanda, Marie Fausta Dutuze
The Role of Chromatin State Transitions in Modulating Early Phosphate-deficiency Response Genes in Plants, Maryam Foroozani
NLRP6 in Gram-positive Pneumonia and Sepsis, Laxman Ghimire
A Case-study Approach to Investigate Transmission, Co-infection, and Clinical Sequelae During Epidemics of Dengue and Ebola Virus Disease, Jennifer Elizabeth Giovanni
High-Throughput Cultivation of Bacterioplankton from the Gulf of Mexico and Genomics of the First Cultured LD12 Representative, Michael Winslow Henson
Examining Spatial Patterns of Dominant Bunchgrass Species in Pine Savanna Groundcover Plant Communities, Katherine Anne Hovanes
Role of the Drosophila BEAF Protein in Chromatin Domain Insulator and Promoter Function, Mukesh Maharjan
Divergent Transcriptional Regulation of Suppressors of Cytokine Signaling Genes in Adipocytes, Paula Mota de Sa
Identification and Characterization of Novel Transporters Involved in the CO2 Concentrating Mechanism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Ananya Mukherjee
Cellular and Viral Determinants of HSV-1 Entry and Transport, Farhana Musarrat
HSV-1 Live-Attenuated Vaccine Strain VC2 Confers Complete Protection in Mice Against Ocular Immunipathogenesis by the Human Clinical Strain HSV-1 (McKrae), Shan Krishnan Naidu
Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv.) in Louisiana: Cause and Consequence, Lorissa A. Radunzel-Davis
Infection Potential of Rickettsia felis via Ingestion, Matthew M. Schexnayder
Characterization and Amplification of Retrotransposable Elements Platy-1 and Alu in the Cebidae Lineage of Platyrrhine Primates, Jessica Storer
Electron Transfer Activity of Mitochondria Neet-Proteins, Yiming Wang
The Functional, Ecological, and Evolutionary Morphology of Sea Lampreys (Petromyzon marinus), Bradley Morgan Wood
Dissertations from 2018
Evolution of Alu Elements in the Saimiri and Papio Lineages of Primates, Jasmine Nicole Brown Baker
Cloning, Purification, and Preliminary DNA-binding and Unfolding Results for the DNA Polymerase I from the Psychrophile Psychromonas ingrahamii, John Tod Baker
Role of Neutrophils in the Modulation of Host Responses to Human Respiratory Pneumovirus Infection, Nagarjuna Reddy Cheemarla
Endocytosis and the Nitric Oxide-Dependent Release of Chloride, Vernon K. Dunn Jr
The Distinctive Regulatory Mechanisms of Bacterial Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase, Alexandra Leigh Evans
Characterization of the Interaction Between R. Conorii and Human Host Vitronectin in Rickettsial Pathogenesis, Abigail Inez Fish
Intraguild Predation: Interactions between Predators, Pathogens, and Their Shared Resources in Crop Pest Communities, Andrew Jason Flick
Evaluation of Oncolytic and Immunomodulatory Potential of the HSV-1 Live-Attenuated Vaccine Strain VC2 in an Immunocompetent Murine Melanoma Model, Natalie Wall Fowlkes
Computational Analysis of Papionini Evolution Using Alu Insertions, Vallmer Edward Jordan II
Exploring the Role of RNA Polymerase III Complex Assembly on Ribosomal DNA Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kyle Thomas Kern
Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Characterization of Colonial Phase Variation in the Cholera Pathogen Reveals a Novel Smooth Biofilm-Defective Form, Bliss Nicole Lambert
Transmission Potential of Rickettsia felis through Cutaneous Inoculation of Infectious Flea Feces, Kelsey Porter Legendre
The Effects of Tree Plantations and Land Use on Natural Regeneration of Woody Plants in the Tropics: Diversity, Species Composition, Successional Dynamics, and Functional Traits, John Benjamin Longworth
Determining the Drivers of Anti-Tropical Distributions Across the Fish Tree of Life, William Benton Ludt
Role of Mucin 19 in the Respiratory Tract, Kaitlin McBride
Regulation of epithelial sodium channels in vasopressin neurons in the hypothalamus, Natalie Jean Mills
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Study Bio-Molecular Interactions, Misagh Naderi
Paclitaxel Enhances Oncolytic Potential of Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 in Cancer Cells, misagh naderi
Breaking Conventions: OhrR, A Transcriptional Regulator from Burkholderia thailandensis, Anuja Rajiv Pande
R1 Retrotransposons in Drosophila melanogaster are Transcribed by RNA Polymerase I Upon Heat Shock, Himanshu Shekhar Raje
5-Lipoxygenase (5-LOX)-5-Lipoxygenase Activating Protein (FLAP)-Nanodisc Complex: A Model for the 5-LOX-FLAP Interaction, Erin Elizabeth Schexnaydre
Analysis of Chromatin Interactions of BEAF-associated Promoters Using 4C, Shraddha Shrestha
An Analysis of Alu Elements in Baboons, Cody James Steely
Iron-sulfur Cluster Biogenesis and Iron Homeostasis in Escherichia coli, Jing Yang
Theses from 2017
Quantitation of anti-Pythium insidiosum antibodies before and after immunotherapy in healthy dogs, Carmen Beatriz Arsuaga
Epigenetic Profiling of Mammalian Retrotransposons, Arundhati Bakshi
Epigenetic Response of Imprinted Domains during Carcinogenesis, Corey Lane Bretz
Microbial Distributions and Survival in the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Noelle Celeste Bryan
The Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Lipolytic Stimulation on Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Expression of Perilipin 3 (Plin3) in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Jeffrey Daniel Covington
Evaluation of Broad Anti-Herpesviral Activity with α-Hydroxytropolones, Shannon David Dehghanpir
Development of Mouse Models for the Study of Zika Virus Pathogenesis and Antibody Response, Anna Beatriz Kawiecki
Biased Genetic Screen Identifies Novel Genes Involved in Antiviral Defense, Tianyun Long
A Presynaptic Role for Nitric Oxide at a GABAergic Synapse, John Wesley Maddox
Structure-based Prediction of Protein-protein Interaction Networks across Proteomes, Surabhi Maheshwari
Pharmacokinetics of Micronized Progesterone Administration in Female Dogs, Raphael Anthony Malbrue
Evolutionary History of a Large-Genome Salamander Across Five Disjunct Regions of the Southeastern United States, Catherine Elizabeth Newman
The Characterization of Alpha-Carbonic Anhydrases Through Mutagenesis and Subcellular Localization in Arabidopsis thaliana, Lance E. Pounds
Patterns of Diversification in a Neotropical Radiation of Birds (Aves: Furnariidae), Glenn F. Seeholzer
Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 is a Novel Protein Sensor in Pregnancy, Elizabeth Frost Sutton