Congratulations to the following people who have successfully defended their dissertations and will graduate from the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program.
Exploring the Hidden World of Conformational Penalties in Nucleic Acid Recognition
Rohit Roy, PhD
Committee members: Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD, Bruce Donald, PhD, Raluca Gordan, PhD, Maria Schumacher, PhD.
Exploration of Viral and Host Gene Expression Dynamics in Hematologic Malignancies
Veronica Russell, PhD
Committee members: Simon Gregory, PhD, Beth Hauser, PhD, Sandeep Dave, MD, and Raluca Gordan, PhD.
Crossing between Normal and Inverted Potentials: Design Constraints and Principles for Tuning Between One-and-Two Electron Transfer Reactions
Niven Singh, PhD
Committee members: Weitao Yang, PhD, Terrence Oas, PhD, David Beratan, PhD, Michael Therien, PhD.
Bias Corrections for Genetic Association Studies with Applications in Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome
Tiffany Tu, PhD
Committee members: Alex Ochoa, PhD, Amy Goldberg, PhD, Beth Hauser, PhD, Andrew Allen, PhD.
Database and Computational Methods Development for Multi-Modal Single-Cell Data
Changxin Wan, PhD
Committee members: Jason Ji, PhD, Yarui Diao, PhD, Simon Gregory, PhD, Alex Hartemink, PhD, and Alex Ochoa, PhD.
The SHR Proxiome: Characterization of a Regulatory Hub for Root Development
Sarah Van Dierdonck, PhD
Committee members: Steve Haase, PhD, Greg Wray, PhD, Alex Hartemink, PhD, and Xinnian Dong, PhD
Robust and Scalable Causal Inference: Domain Alignment, Time-series Counterfactuals, Multi‑Treatment & Multi‑Outcome Causal Effects, and LLM-Integrated Causal Discovery
Yiling Liu, PhD
Committee members: David Carlson, PhD, John Pearson, PhD, Lingchong You, PhD, and David Page, PhD.