Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program | University of California, San Francisco

Student	Lab	Graduation Date	Dissertation Title
Jessica Van Ziffle	Lowell	2009	Neutrophils require Syk kinase to mount an effective host response to bacterial infection
Cory Nicholas	Reijo Pera	2009	Embryonic stem cell-derived oocyte development in follicles by transplantation into an endogenous ovarian niche
Rebecca Botelho	McCune	2009	Plasmacytoid dendritic cell function in pathogenic vs. non-pathogenic HIV and SIV infection
Kelly Haston	Reijo Pera	2009	The Role of Dazl in Maintenance of Pluripotency and Murine Germ Cell Development in vivo and in vitro.
Cathy Collins	Brown	2009	Host Ubiquitination of Cytosolic Mycobacteria
Trinna Cuellar	McManus	2009	The Role of Dicer in Post-mitotic Dopaminoceptive Neurons and Turnover of Dicer Generated MiRNAs
Bess Frost	Diamond	2009	Prion-Like Characteristics of the Microtubule-Associated Protein Tau
Cynthia Mysinger	McCormick	2009	CAR is Not Required for Adenovirus Infection: Integrin alpha v beta 5 Mediates Binding to CAR-Negative Cells
Elizabeth Sharp	Nixon	2009	Ethnic & Gender Immune Response Differences
Won-Suk Chung	Stainier	2009	Induction of Pancreatic Beta Cells in Zebrafish
Jeff Mold	McCune	2009	The Development of the Human Fetal Adaptive Immune System and Its Role in Promoting Immunological Tolerance
Alika Maunakea	Costello	2008	A conserved role for intragenic DNA methylation in cell context-specific gene regulation
Elizabeth Co	Fisher	2008	The immune paradox of human pregnancy: Fetal trophoblasts and maternal leukocytes
Sarah Elson	Johnson	2008	Characterization of the She3-dependent RNA transport system in Candida albicans
Dustin Khiem	Black	2008	The transcription factor MEF2C regulates B cell maturation, proliferation, and function
Angell Shieh	Shannon	2008	Interrogating the roles of specific downstream effector pathways in the pathogenesis of hematopoietic malignancies initiated by oncogenic K-RasG12D
Larry Shiow	Cyster	2008	The Regulation and Mechanism of Lymphocyte Egress
Zaman Mirzadeh	Alavarez-Buylla	2008	Epithelial organization of the adult neural stem cell niche
Vernon Phan	McCormick	2008
Jennifer Lilla	Werb	2008	The role of mast cells and plasma kallikrein in mammary gland development
Andrea Wolf	Ernst	2007	In vivo analysis of factors affecting the dynamics of the adaptive immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and contributing to bacterial persistence
Emil Palacios	Weiss A	2007	On the signaling of the pre-TCR
David Rosen	Lanier	2007	Lectins with Ligands: NKR-P1A and LLT1 in human immunity
Susan Levin	Weiss A	2007	Small-Molecule Inhibition of ZAP-70 Kinase Activity
Kelly DuBois	McKerrow	2007	Disparate roles of cysteine proteases in the lifecycle of Giardia
Tiffany Reese	Locksley	2007	Chitin in allergic immunity
Miles Berger	Tecott	2007	The role of serotonin receptors and other related GPCRs in regulating pancreatic islet development and novelty-related behaviors
Vikas Gupta	Weiss A.	2007	B cells drive lymphocyte activation and expansion in mice with the CD45 wedge mutation and Fas deficiency
Siddhartha Mitra	Finkbeiner	2007	Probing the Cellular Pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease through Longitudinal Single-cell Analysis
Suzanne Schubbert	Shannon	2007	Analysis of Ras pathway mutations in myeloid leukemia and developmental disorders
Chris Allen	Cyster	2007	Germinal Center Dark and Light Zone Organization and Cellular Dynamics
Claudia Grossmann	Ganem	2007	The Role of NFkappaB in KSHV Pathogenesis
Jeff Stone	Andino	2007	Understanding viral quasispecies, viral escape, and implications for the design of novel antiviral strategies
Jennifer Wade	Tecott	2007	Effects of the Serotonin 2C Receptor on Glucose Homeostasis
Michelle Shih	Farese	2007	Dgat1 modulates hair cycling and is essential for retinoid homeostasis in the skin
Danielle Behonick	Werb	2007	A study of MMPs during skeletal development and repair
Luke Barron	Abbas	2007	The roles of Bim-dependent apoptosis in controlling the responses of CD4+ T cells
James Linton	Reichardt	2007	Nephronectin and α 8β1 integrin: novel roles for adhesion and signaling in the developing metanephric kidney
Aaron Tooley	Krummel	2007	Septin Function in T Lymphocyte Crawling and Structural Integrity
Patrick Heiser	Hebrok	2007	WNT signaling in pancreas development and disease
Leslie Chu	Li	2007	Inheritance of Epigenetic Chromatin States
Brandon Davis	Ferriero	2007	VEGF signaling mechanisms in increased blood brain barrier permeability following hypoxia
Claudio Villanueva	Farese	2007	Differential requirements of triglyceride synthesis enzymes in the development of hepatic steatosis
Rachel Friedman	Krummel	2007	Early T cell activation in the lymphoid milieu
Brandon Davis (MSTP)	Ferriero	2007	VEGF signaling mechanisms in increased blood brain barrier permeability following hypoxia
Kimberley Stopak	Greene	2007	The Regulation of APOBEC3G by Host and Viral Factors
Prerana Jayakumar	Verdin	2006	HIV, Tat, and the biology of CXCR4
Marla Abodeely	McKerrow	2006	Cysteine protease trafficking and function in Giardia lamblia
Eric Jaehnig	Black	2006	increased susceptibility to isoproterenol-induced cardiac hypertrophy in mice lacking HRCBP
Rayna Takaki Venook	Lanier	2006	Tumor Immunosurveillance by Natural Killer Cells
Alex Pastuszak (MSTP)	Frankel	2006	Keeping Track of Transcription and Splicing Using HIV-1 Tat
Sarah Stanley	Cox	2006	An alternative secretion system in M. tuberculosis mediates the host pathogen interaction
Hosein Kouros-Mehr (MSTP)	Werb	2006	GATA-3 maintains luminal cell differentiation in the mammary gland and in breast cancer
Anatoly Urisman (MSTP)	DeRisi	2006	Viral Detection and Discovery: Using DNA Microarrays
Vikram Rao (MSTP)	Finkbeiner	2006	AMPA receptors regulate transcription of Arc , a gene essential for learning and memory
Demetris Iacovides	McCormick	2006	Regulation of Translation During Adenovirus Infection
Sam Williams	Greene	2006	Regulation of HIV-1 postintegration latency by NF-kappa-B
Ann-Marie Cruz	McCune	2006	Impact of Coreceptor Tropism on HIV-1 Viral Output in Primary T Cells
Jason Kreisberg	Greene	2006	Host and viral factors controlling HIV pathogenesis
Eleanor Kincaid	Ernst	2006	Subverting macrophage function: Mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibition of IFN- g responses
Maria Christophorou	Evan	2006	Temporal dissection of p53 function in vivo and in vitro
Nick Osborne	Stainier	2005	Sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in zebrafish heart and endoderm development
Robin Lesley	Cyster	2005	Elimination of autoreactive B cells
Jack Regan	Parslow	2005	A Role for the Influenza RNA Polymerase in Viral Particle Assembly
Kristy Red-Horse	Fisher	2005	Placental remodeling of the uterine vasculature during pregnancy
Brian North	Verdin	2005	Function and Regulation of the Human NAD+-dependent Protein Deacetylase SIRT2
Aaron Tward (MSTP)	Bishop	2005	The proto-oncogene c-MET in liver cancer and liver differentiation
Luisa Stamm (MSTP)	Brown	2005	Mycobacterium marinum Actin-Based Motility
Margo Myers	A. Weiss	2005	SLAP regulates TCR expression by adapting c-Cbl to the TCR complex
Joanna Gonsalves	Reijo Pera	2005	Defective Recombination in Infertile Men
Joshua Anderson	Black	2005	The Role of MEF2C in the Transcriptional Regulation of Vascular Development
Rebecca Blank	McKerrow	2005	Host Immune Signals and their Role in Schistosome Development
Matt Ludeman	Coughlin	2004	Activation and regulation of protease-activated receptors
Melissa Lodoen	Lanier	2004	Cytomegalovirus Evasion of Natural Killer Cell Immunity
Le Trinh	Stainier	2004	Epithelial organization in myocardial migration: genetic and cellular analyses in zebrafish
Martin Lee	Ingraham	2004	You're not DEAD till you're SUMOylated...ask the orphan (receptor)!
Luis de la Fuente	Helms	2004	Back and There Again: Vascular Regression and Invasion During Skeletogenesis
David Sanchez	Ganem	2004	Modulation of Immune Recognition by Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus
Daniel Miranda	Parslow	2004	Dynamics and Structure of a Secondary RNA Dimerization Site in the 5 ’ Leader Region of the HIV-1 Genome
Doris Fortin	Edwards	2004	Rafting the synapse: a-Synuclein and Parkinson’s disease
Neal Freedman	Yamamoto	2004	Small molecule regulation of nuclear receptors