If you’ve heard of bioethanol or biodiesel, you’ve heard about a biofuel. Adopting biofuels, which are fuels produced directly from plants or biowastes, can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And as IPiB graduate student Nathaniel …
Thesis Reviews
IPiB Thesis Defense Aug. 24: Dana Dahhan
IPiB graduate student Dana Dahhan studies how proteins are trafficked into and out of cells. She’s defending her Ph.D. research on Aug. 24.
IPiB Thesis Defense Aug. 29: Aidan McKenzie
Aidan McKenzie is defending his Ph.D. research on Aug. 29.
IPiB Thesis Defense August 18: Aryel Clarke
Aryel Clarke’s Ph.D. research focuses on a group of proteins that help maintain and remodel cellular membranes. Clarke, an IPiB graduate student in biomolecular chemistry professor Jon Audhya’s lab, says that part of what drew …
IPiB Thesis Defense June 17: Josie Mitchell
Sensory neurons help us sense external stimuli and transform these stimuli into messages that are communicated to the brain. The structure of a sensory neuron influences its receptive field and is thus important to how …
IPiB Thesis Defense April 27: Elizabeth Larson
Immediately following fertilization, the genome undergoes a monumental feat — it’s reprogrammed to allow specialized germ cells to transition to an early embryo. This process requires DNA genome remodeling to enable the expression of a …
IPiB Thesis Defense June 23: Jennifer Peotter
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of inherited neurologic disorders that cause weakness and stiffness in the leg muscles. Defects in membrane trafficking can contribute to HSP and other neurodegenerative diseases. For her Ph.D. …
IPiB Thesis Defense Dec. 14: Adam Lewis
Ion channels provide passageways through which charged ions can cross cellular membranes. Some ion channels allow only one type of ion through, while others, called nonselective ion channels, allow multiple types of ions to cross. …
IPiB Thesis Defense Nov. 15: Kanika Jain
Damage to DNA during its replication can be caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation, drugs, internal factors, and more. Typically, repair proteins come to the rescue. These proteins scan the genome and remove damage and …
IPiB Thesis Defense Nov. 4: Tina Lynch
As a graduate student in the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB), Tina Lynch studied germline stem cells, the cells that ultimately produce sperm and eggs, in roundworms. Lynch, a member of the Kimble Lab, was …