Lester, Henry A.

Committee Member — 106 thesises

• 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.))
• Li, Hongyi Richard — Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery for Non-Invasive Neuroengineering (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wade, Lawrence A. — An Evanescent Perspective on Cells (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zirlinger, Mariela — Application of Microarray, Laser Capture and Transgenic Technologies to the Study of Neural Diversity (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Patton, Bruce Lowell — Autophosphorylation Sites of the Type II Ca²⁺/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase: Identification, Regulation of Kinase Activity, and Site-Specific Antibodies (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Yao-ying Alyce — Backbone Flexibility in Protein Design Theory and Experiment (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stiles, Noelle Rebecca Barry — Behavioral and fMRI Measures of Crossmodal Plasticity Induced by Auditory Sensory Substitution (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffiths, Jessica Anne — Bidirectional Interactions Between the Gut Microbiome and Nervous System (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miles, Timothy Francis — Binding Site Structure and Stoichiometry in Serotonin Type 3 Receptors (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schomburg, Erik W. — Biophysical and Network Mechanisms of High Frequency Extracellular Potentials in the Rat Hippocampus (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Betty Ko — Biophysical Studies of Ligand-gated Ion Channels (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aakalu, Girish Nanda — Building the Molecular Machinery of Memory: Local Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cambrian Yangshao — Characterization of an Unusual Collection of Olfactory Neurons in the Nose (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Lori Wai Hang — Chemical Scale Investigations of the Gating Mechanism of Ion Channels (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zacharias, Niki Marie — Chemical-Scale Manipulation of Ion Channels: in vivo Nonsense Suppression and Targeted Disulfide Crosslinking (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Kiowa San — Chemical-Scale Studies of the 5-HT₃ and D2 Dopamine Receptors (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Block, Steven Michael — Chemotactic Responses of Tethered Bacteria (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Segall, Jeffrey Edward — Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli Studied Using Ionophoretic Stimulation (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jinho — Compact Microscope System for Biomedical Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dvorak-Carbone, Hannah — Contribution of the Temporoammonic Pathway to Hippocampal Processing (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mayfield, Acacia Michelle Hori — Customized and Modular Control of Gene Expression for Precision Gene Therapies (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farivar, Shabnam Sarah — Cytoarchitecture of the Locust Olfactory System (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ni, Yu-Li — Developing Tools for Neurobiology: The Retina as a Neuropharmacology Testbed & Electrode Pooling to Boost Extracellular Array Recording (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Justin — Development and Function of Sleep Regulatory Circuits in Zebrafish (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaubard, Jean-Luc — Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Shan — DNA-Guided Genome Manipulation in Escherichia coli (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gugel, Zhannetta V. — Effects of Sensory Experience on Early Stages of Olfactory Processing in the Fruit Fly (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wall, Teagan Rose — Effects of TI-299423 on Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morgan, Joel Edgar — Electron Transfer in Cytochrome c Oxidase: The Rate of Electron Equillibration Between Cytochrome a and Copper A (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hodas, Jennifer Jin Lee — Elucidating the Hippocampal Dopaminergic Subproteome with Novel Bioorthogonal Techniques (2010, 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.))
• Liu, Jonathan C. — Engineering and Application of cGAL, a GAL4 Bipartite Expression System for Caenorhabditis elegans (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lukas, Heather Lauren — Engineering Bioaffinity Sensors toward Continuous Electrochemical Biosensing (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hurt, Robert Cooper — Engineering of Second-Generation Acoustic Reporter Genes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Wen J. — Extragenic Suppressors of Heat Shock Activated GOα. Topic I: Cyclin in Heat Shock Response. Topic II: Signaling by Go and Gq in C. elegans (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dilworth, Crystal Noelle — Fluorescence Microscopy of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blumenfeld, Zachary — Genetically Encoded Biosensors for Ketamine and Other Rapidly Acting Antidepressants in Zebrafish and Cell Culture (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Siegel, Micah Seth — Genetically Engineered Sensors of Cell Signaling (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moiseyenko, Anastasiya O. — Gut Microbiota as Modulators and Therapeutic Targets in Parkinson’s Disease (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoo, Bryan B. — Host-Microbe Interactions Impacting and Mediated by Nervous Systems (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maurer, Joshua Ahab — I. Structure-Function Analysis of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance. II. Design of Novel Magnetic Materials using Crystal Engineering (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Jihong — Innovations in Wireless Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine, from Sustainable Sweat Sensing to Ingestible Gut Monitoring (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Southwell, Amber L. — Intrabodies as Therapeutics for Huntington’s Disease (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eastwood, Amy Lynn — Investigating Structure-Function Relationships in Ion Channels Using Unnatural Amino Acids (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krouse, Mauri Eugene — Investigation of Competitive Antagonist Binding to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Using Voltage-Jump and Light-Flash Techniques (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grant, Stephen Nicholas — Investigation of Some Small Molecule-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions in Nicotine Addiction, Opioid Use Disorder, and COVID-19 (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Petersson, Ernest James — Investigations of Ion Channel Structure and Function. I. Studies of Nicotine Binding to the Acetylcholine Receptor. II. Development of Tools for Studying Learning and Memory with Unnatural Amino Acids (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Elmore, Donald Eugene, Jr. — Investigations of Ion Channel Structure-Function Relationships Using Molecular Modeling and Experimental Biochemistry (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Shijia — Light Dependent Regulation of Sleep/Wake States by Prokineticin 2 in Larval Zebrafish (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, W. Bryan — Local Control of Synaptic Strength: Neurotrophic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Dendritic Protein Synthesis (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parker, Rell Lin — Lynx1 Modulation of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nichols, Weston A. — Lynxl and the β2V287L Mutation Affect the Stoichiometry of the α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapovalov, George G. — Mechanosensitive Channels of Bacteria: Structure and Function. Electrophysiology as a High Resolution Technique of Ion Channel Study (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schretter, Catherine Elizabeth — Microbial Modulation of Host Locomotion (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matus Bloch, Ivan J. — Models for the Avoidance Response in Phycomyces (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bradley, Jonathan Christopher Robert — Molecular Analysis of Olfactory Signal Transduction (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Apperson, Michelle Louise — Molecular Analysis of the Postsynaptic Density: Cloning and Characterization of Densin-lSO, a Novel Postsynaptic Density-Associated Adhesion Molecule (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lochrie, Michael Alan — Molecular biology of G protein alpha subunits from bovine photoreceptors and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamb, Alexander — Molecular Biology of Shaker, a Drosophila Gene that Encodes Multiple Potassium Channel Components (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vaughn, Daniel E. — Molecular Mechanism of pH Dependent Antibody Binding: Structure/Function Studies on the Neonatal Fc Receptor (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonzalez-Serricchio, Aidyl Sofia — Negative Regulation of Cell Fate Specification by the lin-15 Locus During Vulval Induction in Caenorhabditis elegans (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arthur, Benjamin Jacob — Neural Computations Leading to Space-specific Auditory Responses in the Barn Owl (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ito, Hiroshi — Neuromodulator-Mediated Control of Spatial and Nonspatial Information Processing in the Hippocampus (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Regehr, Wade Gordon — Neuron-Microdevice Connections (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muthusamy, Anand Kumar — Neuropsychiatric Drug Biosensors in Organelles, Cells, Biofluids, & Behaving Animals (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsu, Alice — Neurotechnology for Multiplexed Interrogation of Brain Circuits and Synaptic Activity (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Frazier, Shawnalea Jimee — Optimization of the GluC1/IVM Neuronal Silencing Tool via Protein Engineering (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Audesirk, Gerald Joseph — Part I. Studies on the Organization of the Eye of Aplysia californica. Part II. Studies on the Interrelationship between Two Neuronal Circadian Oscillators in Aplysia californica (1975, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brugman, Katherine Irene — Pezo-1 Function in Caenorhabditis elegans (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McDonough, Stefan I. — Pharmacology and pore-forming domains of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gordon, Herman J. — Postnatal Development of Motor Units in Rabbit and Rat Soleus Muscles (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Limapichat, Walrati — Probing the Roles of Receptor Structure, Drug-Receptor Interactions, and Receptor Crosstalk in Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Function (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adolphs, Ralph — Processing of Interaural Level Differences in the Auditory Brainstem of the Barn Owl (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loson, Oliver Calvin — Regulation of Mitochondrial Division by the Drp1 Receptors (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharya, Paulomi — RNA-Mediated Toxicity In Neurodegeneration: The Mechanistic Role Of The C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion In ALS Molecular Pathogenesis (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tang, Lixin — Role for the Cadherin Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Synaptic Function in the Adult Hippocampus (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lowe, Graeme — Rotation of Bacterial Flagella at High Frequency (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slimko, Eric Michael — Selective Silencing of Vertebrate Neurons: Strategies Using Invertebrate Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fowler, Trevor Michael — Silicon Neural Probes for Stimulation of Neurons and the Excitation and Detection of Proteins in the Brain (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bialecka-Fornal, Maja I. — Single-Cell Analysis of the Physiology of Mechanosensation in Bacteria (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shanata, Jai Anand Pattur — Single-Molecule Studies of Ion Channels Expressing Unnatural Amino Acids (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brandt, Gabriel Shaw — Site-Specific Incorporation of Synthetic Amino Acids into Functioning Ion Channels (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Monahan, Sarah Lynn — Site-Specific Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids into Receptors Expressed in Mammalian Cells (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soha, James Martin — Specificity and Competition During Maturation of Neuromuscular Synapses (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Idigo, Chinenye Abiodun — Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Variants of the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MsCL) (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Radford, Katelyn Margaret — Structural and Functional Characterization of Immune System Proteins Using Crystallography and Single Particle Cryo-EM (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mayne, Katherine Mixter — Structural and Functional Studies on the Subunits of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamajaya, Aron — Structural Study of Piezo Channel, a Unique Family of Eukaryotic Mechanosensitive Channel (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Figl, Antonio — Structure-Function Analysis of the β Subunit of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCormack, Ken — Structure-function studies of Drosophila shaker potassium channels (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Puskar, Nyssa Leigh — Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Unnatural Amino Acids (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bernander, Jan Ӧjvind — Synaptic Integration and its Control in Neocortical Pyramidal Cells (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beale, Holly C. — Synaptic Signal Transduction and Transcriptional Control (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vázquez, Luis Enrique — SynGAP Controls Synapse Formation by Regulating Spine Development and Morphology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meyer, Paul Wells — The Avoidance Response of Phycomyces in a Controlled Environment (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ryckebusch, Sylvie Adrienne — The Central Nervous Control of Walking in the Locust Schistocerca americana (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Richard Sheridan — The Ionic Basis of Frequency Selectivity in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog's Sacculus (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Tongtong — The Neural Basis of Brain-Body Communication (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Sangjun — The Neural Basis of Sodium Appetite (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Lei — The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Gene Expression and Ion Channel Function (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Lintong — The Tethered Agonist Approach to Mapping Ion-Channel Proteins: Toward a Structural Model for the Agonist-Binding Site of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quiñónez, Carlo Joseph — Theory and Design of Relaxometric Probes (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pham, Anh Hoang — Tools for Assessing Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mouse Tissues and Neurodegenerative Models (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGarvey, Raymond Timothy James — Ultra-Sensitive Absorption Measurements through Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Imoukhuede, Princess Ikhianosen Uerenikhosen — Visualizing the Membrane Confinement, Trafficking and Structure of the GABA Transporter, GAT1 (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))