Gradinaru, Viviana

Committee Member — 53 thesises

• Chen, Linlin — A Platform for High Throughput Discovery of Sequence Defined Affinity Reagents (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jackson, Cameron Richard — Accessing the Developing CNS: Advancing AAV-Mediated Prenatal Gene Editing in the Brain (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jin, Zhiyang — Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chuapoco, Miguel Roberto Estella — Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Gene Delivery to the Non-Human Primate Brain (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Fayth Hui — Animal Regeneration and its Loss: the Mouse as a Model of Limited Regeneration (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jason — Artificial Intelligence Methods for Enzyme Engineering (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leslie, Kent L. — Autophagy Proteins Direct STING Trafficking and Innate Immune Signaling Independently of Canonical Autophagy (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffiths, Jessica Anne — Bidirectional Interactions Between the Gut Microbiome and Nervous System (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Betty Ko — Biophysical Studies of Ligand-gated Ion Channels (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flynn, Michael J. — Building to Understand MiRNA Circuits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ding, Xiaozhe — Computation-Aided Protein Engineering for Targeted Therapeutic Delivery (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mayfield, Acacia Michelle Hori — Customized and Modular Control of Gene Expression for Precision Gene Therapies (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Ying Min — Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging with Time-Reversed Light (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Andrew C. — Engineered Protein Circuits for Cancer Therapy (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chan, Ken Yee — Engineered Viral Vectors and Developed Tissue Clearing Methods for Single-cell Phenotyping in Whole Organs (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lakshmanan, Anupama — Engineering Acoustic Protein Nanostructures for Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging using Ultrasound (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Jonathan C. — Engineering and Application of cGAL, a GAL4 Bipartite Expression System for Caenorhabditis elegans (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chong, Lucy Shin — Engineering and Delivery of Programmable Protein Circuits as Potential Therapeutic Devices (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bedbrook, Claire Nicole — Engineering Novel Rhodopsins for Neuroscience (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dobreva, Tatyana — Engineering Tools to Probe and Manipulate the Immune System at Single-Cell Resolution (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ravindra Kumar, Sripriya — Engineering Vectors for Non-Invasive Gene Delivery to the Central Nervous System using Multiplexed-CREATE (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goertsen, David Gerald — Expanding Adeno-Associated Viral Capsid Engineering to Multiple Variable Regions for Diversified Tropism (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiong, Lealia Li — Expanding the Toolbox for Thermal Control of E. coli: Cold-Activated Transcription with Applications in Temperature Self-Regulation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flytzanis, Nicholas C. — From Single-Cell to Whole-Body: Developing a Molecular Neuroscience Toolkit (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bi, Xiaotian — Functional Stimulated Raman Imaging for Quantitative Cell Biology with Small Bioorthogonal Tags (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abdel-Haq, Reem — Gut Microbiome Modulates Microglia Physiology in Homeostatic and Disease States (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Sheel Mukesh — Highly Multiplexed Single Cell In Situ RNA Detection (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoo, Bryan B. — Host-Microbe Interactions Impacting and Mediated by Nervous Systems (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Grace Chen — Investigating the Role of a Specific Chondroitin Sulfate Motif in Neuroinflammation and Regeneration (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turan, Zeynep — Life Without Cortex: Subcortical Circuits in Naturalistic Behaviors (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Mengyu — Love and War: Control of Female Social Behaviors by the Hypothalamus (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Yicheng — Maternally Inherited siRNAs Initiate piRNA Cluster Formation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schretter, Catherine Elizabeth — Microbial Modulation of Host Locomotion (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Augustine, Vineet — Neural Architecture Underlying Thirst Regulation (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiu, Hui — Neural Control of Male and Female Aggression in Drosophila (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jung, Yonil — Neurons that Control Social States in Drosophila melanogaster (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muthusamy, Anand Kumar — Neuropsychiatric Drug Biosensors in Organelles, Cells, Biofluids, & Behaving Animals (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Xinhong — Non-Invasive Functional Gene Delivery to the Central and Peripheral Nervous System Across Species (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cho, Jounhong Ryan — Optical Imaging of Dopamine Dynamics and Decoding its Role in Arousal and Salience (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jang, Mooseok — Optical Phase Conjugation and Its Applications in Biology (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, David — Principles of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Engineering and Characterizing Gene Delivery (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brake, Joshua Harris — Seeing Through the Fog: Using Scattered Light to Peer Deeper into Biological Tissue (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Altermatt, Michael — Serotonergic Circuits: Role in Sleep and Enhanced Genetic Tools for Access and Optical Recording (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coughlin, Gerard Michael — Spatial Biology Tools to Accelerate and Refine Adeno-Associated Virus Engineering and Application (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Blade A. — Synthetic Antigen-Presenting Vesicles for Selective Immunomodulation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nath, Ravi David — The Evolutionary Construction of Sleep (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Andrew James — The Genetic and Neuronal Substrates of Melatonin Signaling in Zebrafish Sleep (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shai, Adam S. — The Physiology and Computation of Pyramidal Neurons (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gandhi, Avni Vasant — The Regulation of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: The Role of Melatonin and Adenosine in Zebrafish (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilbert, Steven Alexander — The Role of Context-Dependent Metabolic Interactions in Organizing Microbial Communities (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lubeck, Eric — Towards in situ Single Cell Systems Biology (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Yuanyun (Rose) — Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Bin — Transformations and Functions of Neural Representations in a Subcortical Social Behavior Network (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))