Fred Hutchinson graduate students earn doctoral degrees

Brief

Nine Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and four University of Washington departmental students who conducted their dissertation research in center labs have recently been awarded doctoral degrees.

The graduates and their dissertation topics are:

• Clint Spiegel, Department of Biochemistry, Biomolecular Structure and Design Program, "Hemophilia A, Antibody Inhibitors, and Anticoagulants: Structural and Biochemical Studies of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII." (Dr. Barry Stoddard, mentor)
  
  
• Charlotte Berkes, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Elucidating the Mechanisms of MyoD-mediated Expression." (Dr. Stephen Tapscott, mentor)
  
  
• Tera Newman, Department of Genome Sciences, "Complex Evolution of the 7E Segmental Duplications and 7E Olfactory Receptors." (Dr. Barbara Trask, mentor)
  
  
• Bennett Penn, Medical Scientist Training Program/Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Decoding the Transcriptional Program of Skeletal Muscle Differentiation." (Dr. Stephen Tapscott, mentor)
  
  
• Johnnie Orozco, Medical Scientist Training Program/Department of Bioengineering, "Characterizing the Humoral Immune Response to Human Papillomavirus Type 16." (Dr. Denise Galloway, mentor)
  
  
• Fred Park, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Establishment of POP-1 Asymmetry, a Binary Code for Cell Fate Decisions." (Dr. Jim Priess, mentor)
  
  
• Todd Nystul, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Anoxia-induced Suspended Animation in Caenorhabditis elegans." (Dr. Mark Roth, mentor)
  
  
• Lindy Gewin, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Investigation of the mechanism by which human papillomavirus type-16 E6 oncoprotein induces telomerase in epithelial cells." (Dr. Denise Galloway, mentor)
  
  
• Tom Fazzio, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Isw2 Complex Slides Nucleosomes to Create a Repressive Chromatin Structure In Vivo." (Dr. Toshi Tsukiyama, mentor)
  
  
• Michael Bonham, Medical Scientist Training Program/Department of Genome Sciences, "Identification of Tumor Cell Growth Inhibitory Compounds in the Herbal Extract PC-SPES." (Dr. Pete Nelson, mentor)
  
  
• Dawnnica Kay Williams, Molecular and Cellular Biology (master's thesis), "Real-time PCR-based method to independently sample single simian immunodeficiency virus genomes from macaques with a range of viral loads." (Dr. Julie Overbaugh, mentor)
  
  
• Michael McMurray, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Age-Induced Genomic Instability in Budding Yeast." (Dr. Dan Gottschling, mentor)
  
  
• Scheduled for Aug. 6: Heidi Parker, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, "Advancing Canine Genomic: From Map Building to Population Studies." (Dr. Elaine Ostrander, mentor)

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