Amanda Abavana-Mensah
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: Cobamide Biosynthesis: Examination of Aminopropanol Production and Incorporation
Advisor: Amy Ma, PhD

Maria R. Cavallo
Pharmacology & Physiology PhD Program
Title: Unveiling Resistance Mechanisms and Improving Therapeutic Outcomes in Mutant BRAFV600E Cancers
Advisor: Edward Hartsough, PhD

Alexandria Criswell
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Characterizing Escape Pathways Associated With HIV-Specific CAR T Cell Therapy
Advisor: Daniel Claiborne, PhD
Co-advisor: Luis Montaner, DVM, PhD

Jason DaCunza
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: miRNA Cargo in Small Extracellular Vesicles From Mouse Primary Macrophages and RAW 264.7 Cells
Advisor: Seena Ajit, PhD

Tisha Kalpesh Desai
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Investigating the Role of SND1 in Glioblastoma Using RNA-Seq
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Emily Esquea, MS
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics PhD Program
Title: Targeting Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Breast Cancer Brain Metastatic Cells
Advisor: Mauricio Reginato, PhD

Hieu Jeromy
Pharmacology & Physiology MS Program
Title: Characterization of Shared Immunogenic Poly-Epitope Frameshift Mutations in Microsatellite-InstabilityHigh (MSI-H) Colorectal Cancer Research
Advisors: Patrick Wilkinson, PhD, and Katelyn Miller, PhD
Academic Co-advisor: Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD

Roshni Kadam
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Investigating the Functional Role of Highly Structured Regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 Using CRISPR/Cas-Based Deletion Analysis
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Ranjit Kaur
Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics MS Program
Title: Interplay of Hepatitis B Virus and lncRNA FAM99A Expression and Interacting Proteins in Liver Cancer Cell Lines
Advisor: Michael Bouchard, PhD

Christopher Markgraf
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Identifying Protein Partners and Binding Sites on the lncRNA SChLAP1
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Aaron Slifer
Cancer Biology MS Program
Title: Transcriptome Analysis of Publicly Available Hepatocellular Carcinoma Datasets to Identify Hepatitis B Virus-Specific Long Non-coding RNAs
Advisor: Srinivas Somarowthu, PhD

Alexis Tang
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: Innate Immune RNA Sensors in the Central Nervous System: Beyond the Antiviral Response
Advisor: Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD

Felicity Tso
Microbiology & Immunology MS Program
Title: The Stringent Response and Its Sneaky Role in Bacterial Virulence (Literature Review)
Advisors: Garth Ehrlich, PhD, and Donald Hall Jr., PhD