| Student | Department/Program | Advisor | Defense Date | Title |
| Amelia Schirmer | Pathology | Dr Everardo Macias, Ph.D. | 3/3/2023 | Illuminating the Non-Canonical, Pro-Tumorigenic Role of Hippo Tumor Suppressor Kinase STK3 and Its Mechanism of Action in Prostate Cancer |
| Brooke D'Arcy | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Debra Silver, Ph.D. | 3/3/2023 | Characterization of Basal Endfeet Reveals Roles for Local Gene Regulation in Radial Glia and Cortical Development |
| Kelly Huynh | Biochemistry | Prof Bruce Donald, Ph.D. | 3/8/2023 | Discovery and Characterization of Novel Thanatin Orthologs Against Escherichia coli LptA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa LptH |
| Dulcemaria Hernandez | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Joern Coers, Ph.D. | 3/9/2023 | Proximal and Distal Cell Autonomous Immune Responses to Intracellular Pathogens |
| Stephen Walsh | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Joern Coers, Ph.D. | 3/13/2023 | Components of the Host-Pathogen Interface and Their Role in Chlamydial Intracellular Pathogenesis |
| Benjamin Schott | University Program in Genetics and Genomics | Dennis Ko, M.D., Ph.D. | 3/16/2023 | Novel Methods and Mechanisms of Human Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Disease |
| Omar Lopez | Molecular Cancer Biology | David Kirsch | 3/17/2023 | Dissecting Mechanisms of Transformation Following Loss of p53 and RB |
| Stuart Behling | Neurobiology | Stephen Lisberger, Ph.D. | 3/20/2023 | Revealing parallel modulation on the sensory-motor decoder for smooth pursuit eye movements |
| Zeni Ramirez | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Neil Surana | 3/20/2023 | Exploiting Ruminococcus gnavus and Limosilactobacillus reuteri to strengthen host immunity and treat infections |
| Blair Willette | Pharmacology | Nina Tsvetanova, Ph.D. | 3/23/2023 | Getting Up Close and Personal: What Makes an Endosome Special in GPCR Signaling |
| Rui Huang | Biochemistry | Perry Blackshear, M.D., Ph.D. | 3/23/2023 | ZFP36L2 in Development and Adulthood: A Critical Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Homeostasis |
| Benjamin Arnson | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Dwight Koeberl, M.D., Ph.D. | 3/24/2023 | "Novel AAV Based Genome Editing Therapies for Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia". |
| Dongye Lu | Neurobiology | Fan Wang, Ph.D. | 3/27/2023 | General Anesthesia Activates an Anxiolytic Neuronal Group in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis |
| Carolyn Diaz | Neurobiology | Kevin Franks, Ph.D. | 3/28/2023 | Salience Encoding in the Mouse Olfactory System |
| Holly Haver | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Matthew Scaglione, Ph.D. | 3/29/2023 | "Investigating the protein quality control pathways that prevent protein aggregation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum." |
| Bianca Lupan | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Debra Silver, Ph.D. | 3/30/2023 | The exon-junction complex component EIF4A3 is essential for mouse and human cortical progenitor mitosis and neurogenesis . |
| Zachery Mielko | University Program in Genetics and Genomics | Raluca Gordan, Ph.D. | 3/30/2023 | K-mer Based Methods for Measuring and Predicting DNA-Binding Specificity of Transcription Factors |
| Aaron Jones | Biostatistics | Andrzej Kosinski, Ph.D. | 3/31/2023 | Extending the Weighted Generalized Score Statistic for Comparison of Correlated Means |
| Brittany Snyder | Biochemistry | Perry Blackshear, M.D., Ph.D. | 3/31/2023 | Functions and Specificities of Tristetraprolin (TTP) Family Members |
| Shuyang Jin | Neurobiology | Court Hull, Ph.D. | 3/31/2023 | Context-Dependent Modulation of Cerebellar Climbing Fiber Activity Enables Flexible Teaching Signals to Guide Behavior |
| Daniel Costa | Cell Biology | David Sherwood | 3/31/2023 | "Ribosomal Biogenesis and Endomembrane Expansion Precede Cell Invasion" |
| Andy Whiteley | Molecular Cancer Biology | Dorothy Sipkins, M.D., Ph.D. | 4/3/2023 | The circuitous journey of cancer cells to the leptomeninges |
| Kara McCormack | Biostatistics | Terry Hyslop, Ph.D. | 4/3/2023 | Exposomic Modeling Approaches for Social and Environmental Determinants of Health |
| Jovita Byemerwa | Pharmacology | Donald McDonnell, Ph.D. | 4/3/2023 | Elucidation of the role(s) of estrogens in regulating natural killer cell biology in breast cancer metastasis |
| Winston Liu | Neurobiology | Diego Bohorquez, Ph.D. | 4/10/2023 | A Neural Circuit for Gut Microbial Patterns to Regulate Satiety |
| Kaitlin Kiernan | Immunology | Nancie MacIver, M.D. | 4/11/2023 | Metabolic Mechanisms of Nutritionally Regulated Hormone Signaling on T-helper Cell Function |
| Stephen Kirchner | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Jennifer Zhang, Ph.D. | 4/21/2023 | Aging Clocks: Circadian Factors Control Antiviral Immunity of the Skin |
| Evangeline Bao | Pathology | Soman Abraham, Ph.D. | 4/28/2023 |