Alumni – Other Program Graduates
| NAME | DISSERTATION | MENTOR | DEGREE YEAR PROGRAM | POST-GRADUATE POSTITION |
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2021 | ||||
| McClean, Colleen | “Novel Methods of Mycobacterial Control via Manipulation of Host Lipid Bioavailability” | Tobin | MD/PhD 2021 | |
2020 | ||||
| Gamble, Dionna | "Homologous Recombination Outcomes of Double-Strand Break- Initiated Events in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" | Jinks-Robertson | PhD 2020 | |
2019 | ||||
| Yang, Wen-Hsuan | Molecular Mechanisms of TAZ-regulating Ferroptosis in Cancer Cells and tRNA Fragment in Erythrocytes | Chi | PhD 2019 | |
| Dai, Joanne | “Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Phenocopies Apoptosis Regulation in Germinal Center B Cells” | Luftig | PhD 2019 | |
| Ding, Chien-Kuang | Chi | PhD 2019 | ||
2018 | ||||
| Walzer, Katelyn | Chi | PhD 2018 UPGG | ||
| Lennox, Ashley | "mRNA Regulation in Mammalian Brain Development and Developmental Disorders" | Silver | PhD 2018 UPGG | |
| Matty, Molly | "Chemical and Genetic Modulation of the Host Immune Response to Mycobacterial Infection" | Tobin | PhD 2018 UPGG | |
| Midani, Firas | "Predicting colonization of microbes in the human gut" | David | PhD 2018 CBB | |
| Lin, Chao-Chieh | "CoA Synthase Regulates Mitotic Fidelity via CBP-Mediated Acetylation" | Chi | PhD 2018 UPGG | |
| Moore, Anthony | "Genetic control of genomic alterations induced by interstitial telomeric sequences" | Petes | PhD 2018 UPGG | |
2017 | ||||
| Hum, Yee Fang | "Molecular Characterization of Mitotic Homologous Recombination Outcomes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae" | Jinks-Robertson | PhD 2017 UPGG | |
| McSweeney, Melodi Keisha | "Microelectrode array modeling of genetic neurological disorders in the era of next generation sequencing" | Goldstein | PhD 2017 UPGG | |
| Bisogno, Laura Simone | "Post-transcriptional regulation of cancer traits and gene expression in a genetically defined, primary cell-derived model of breast tumorigenesis" | Keene | PhD 2017 UPGG | |
| Reese, Aspen | "Ecological Forces in Microbial Communities: Experimental Tests of Community Ecology Theory in Soil and the Mammalian Gut" | David | PhD 2017 UPE | Postdoc, Harvard |
| Miller, Emily | "The Discovery of EJC Independent Roles for EIF4A3 in Mitosis, Microtubules and Neural Crest Development" | Silver | PhD 2017 UPGG/DSCB | |
| Billmyre, Blake | "Genome evolution in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deuterogattii" | Heitman | PhD 2017 UPGG | Postdoc, Stowers Institute in Kansas City, MO |
| Bae, Sena | "Next Gen sequencing tools to derive insights into protein expression and gene function" | Valdivia | PhD 2017 BME | Duke |
2016 | ||||
| Ross, Justyne | "Epigentic Basis of Centromere Maintenance and Inheritance" | Sullivan | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
| Chien, Ming-Shan | "Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Olfactory Sensory Neurons" | Matsunami | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
| O'Connell, Karen | "Genetic analysis of mitotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" | Petes | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
| Sloan, Roketa | "Topoisomerase 1-associated genome instability in yeast: effects of persistent cleavage complexes or increase Top1 levels" | Jinks-Robertson | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
| Ost-Selvig, Kyla | "Host pH as a signal to induce Cryptococculs neoformans immune evasion" | Alspaugh | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
| Mao, Hanqian (Helen) | "Posttranscriptional regulation of embryonic brain development by the exon junction complex" | Silver | PhD 2016 UPGG | TBD |
2015 | ||||
| Guo, Xiaoge (Amy) | "Tracking individual repair events occurring at mitotic double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" | Jinks-Robertson | PhD 2015 MCB | TBD |
| Keenan, Melissa | Chi | PhD 2015 UPGG | ||
| Aldrup-Macdonald, Megan | Sullivan | MS 2015 UPGG | High School Science Teacher | |
| Yin, Yi | Petes | PhD 2015 UPGG | TBD | |
| Doss, Jennifer | Chi | PhD 2015 UPGG | TBD | |
2014 | ||||
| Chen, Yi Shan | Dissertation Seminar | Valdivia | PhD 2014 UPGG | TBD |
| Ho, Jianghai | Dissertation Seminar | Matsunami | PhD 2014 NBI | TBD |
| Ruzzo, Elizabeth | Goldstein | PhD 2014 UPGG | TBD | |
| Thompson, Marshall | Keene | PhD 2014 UPGG | TBD | |
2013 | ||||
| Chu, Pei-Lun | Marchuk | PhD 2013 UPGG | TBD | |
| Feretzaki, Marianna | Dissertation Seminar | Heitman | PhD 2013 UPGG | TBD |
| McDonald, David | Marchuk | PhD 2013 UPGG | TBD | |
2012 | ||||
| Evsyukova, Irina | Dissertation Seminar | Garcia-Blanco | PhD 2012 BCH | TBD |
| Lamonte, Greg | Chi | PhD 2012 UPGG | TBD | |
| Reeves, Jason | Nevins | PhD 2012 UPGG | TBD | |
| St. Charles, Jordan | Petes | PhD 2012 PHARM | TBD | |
| Yen, Jerry | Linney | PhD 2012 Integrated Toxicology | TBD | |
2011 | ||||
| Friedersdorf, Matthew | Dissertation Seminar | Keene | PhD 2011 MCB | Post-Doctoral Fellow Keene Lab, Duke University |
| Hayden, Karen E. | Willard | PhD 2011 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Scholar UC Santa Cruz | |
| Kucera, Katerina | Dissertation Seminar | Willard | PhD 2011 UPGG | TBD |
| LaBreche, Heather | Dissertation Seminar | Nevins | PhD 2011 UPGG | Post-Doctoral FellowDuke University Medical Center |
| Nguyen, Bidong | Dissertation Seminar | Valdivia | PhD 2011 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Associate Duke University Medical Center |
| Sangokoya, Carolyn | Dissertation Seminar | Chi | PhD 2011 UPGG | Third Year Duke University Medical Student |
2010 | ||||
| Cirulli, Elizabeth | Dissertation Seminar | Goldstein | PhD 2010 UPGG | Biostatistician Duke University Medical Center |
| Keum, Sehoon | Marchuk | PhD 2010 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow UCSF |
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| McCulley, Jennifer | Petes | PhD 2010 MCB | Post-Doctoral Fellow Myung Lab NIH, Maryland |
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| Morris, Adam | Dissertation Seminar | Keene | PhD 2010 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University Medical Center |
| Mudrak, Sarah Victoria | Dissertation Seminar | Jinks-Robertson | PhD 2010 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University Medical Center |
| Mukherjee, Neelanjan | Dissertation Seminar | Keene | PhD 2010 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Ohler Lab Duke University |
| Robinson, Timothy | Dissertation Seminar | Dewhirst/Garcia-Blanco | PhD 2010 MCB | Duke University Medical School |
| Wheeler, Bayly | Dissertation Seminar | Willard | PhD 2010 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow University of California-Berkeley |
2009 | ||||
| Akers, Amy | Marchuk | PhD 2009 UPGG | Chief Scientific Officer Angioma Alliance |
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| Bastidas, Robert | Heitman/Cardenas | PhD 2009 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Valdivia Lab Duke University Medical Center |
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| Diezmann, Stephanie | Dietrich | PhD 2009 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Leah Cowen Lab University of Toronto |
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| Fuhrman, Laura | Aballay | PhD 2009 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University |
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| Maloney, Kristin | Sullivan | PhD 2009 UPGG | Genetic Counseling University of Maryland-Baltimore |
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| Roberts, Richard | Dissertation Seminar | Matsunami | PhD 2009 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University |
| Slone, Jesse | Amrein | PhD 2009 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Texas A&M University |
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2008 | ||||
| Bonano, Vivian | Garcia-Blanco | PhD 2008 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University |
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| Haskins, Kylie | Aballay | PhD 2008 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, FDA |
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| Kavanaugh, Laura | Dietrich | PhD 2008 UPGG | Computational Biologist, Syngenta | |
| Spaeth, Kris | Valdivia | PhD 2008 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University |
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| Umbach, Jennifer Lin | Cullen | PhD 2008 UPGG | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke University |
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| Zhuang, Hanyi | Matsunami | PhD 2008 UPGG | Faculty Shanghai Jia Tong University |
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