Zinn, Kai George

Committee Member — 84 thesises

• Huber, Andrew Henry — A biochemical and structural characterization of Drosophila neuroglian (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ririe, Ted Olin — A Multipartite Approach to Mapping the Gene Network Directing Caenorhabditis elegans Vulval Organogenesis (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salazar, Anna Maria — A Pumilio Domain That Forms Heritable Amyloid Aggregates in Yeast Can Regulate Pumillio-Mediated Translational Repression in Drosophila (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Kuang-Jung — A Role for Protein Kinase Dbf2-Mob1 in Mitotic Exit (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tulin, Sarah Lynn — Analysis of Drosophila Fibroblast Growth Factor Functional Domains (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zirlinger, Mariela — Application of Microarray, Laser Capture and Transgenic Technologies to the Study of Neural Diversity (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamilton, Bruce A. — Assessing molecular function in the Drosophila nervous system: a reverse genetic approach (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Owens, Gwen Ellen — Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Huntingtin (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burkemper, Bruce Seymour — Biochemical Characterization of Drosophila Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatases (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lourenço, Alexandre Luiz — Building Closed-Loop Frameworks for AI-Guided Protein Design (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aakalu, Girish Nanda — Building the Molecular Machinery of Memory: Local Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Wan-Rong — C. elegans Models of ASD-Associated Missense Variants (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kung, Te-Yi — Cell Fate Determination at the Insect CNS Midline (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gong, Ying — Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis: Functions and Mechanisms of Cell Divisions in Vertebrate Gastrulation (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tai, Hwan-Ching — Characterization of the Brain Proteasome and its Interacting Proteins and their Regulation by Neuronal Activity (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Danielle Vera Brown — Chemical and Neural Regulation of Embryonic Branching Morphogenesis (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bak-Maier, Magdalena — Commissural Axon Kinetics and the Role of Netrin in Early Brain Circuitry Development (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Medina-Marino, Andrew G. A. — Construction and Initial Characterization of the Densin Knockout Mouse (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fann, Ming-Ji — Cytokine control of neuronal phenotype (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Hanqing — Development of a High-Throughput Protein Interaction Assay and its Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogers, Claude Joseph — Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fernandes, Jolene Sabrina — Dissection of Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Patterning and Morphogenesis in the C. elegans Vulva (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yorozu, Suzuko — Distinct Sensory Representations of Wind and Near-Field Sound in the Drosophila Brain (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Basch, Martin Leandro — Early Neural Crest Specification, Induction and Competence (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharyya, Sujata — Embryonic Origin of the Olfactory Sensory System: Fate Map, Lineage Analysis and Specification of the Avian Olfactory Placode (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Basalova Buchman, Anna — Engineered Underdominance as a Method of Insect Population Replacement and Reproductive Isolation (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lane, Robert P. — Evolution of the Neural Immunoglobulin Supergene Family and Functional Studies of One of its Members (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gould, Anita — Expression of Eph-Family Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and Ephrins in the Tadpole of the Frog Xenopus Laevis, and Possible Roles in the Development of Retinotectal Topography (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miskevich, Frank — Expression, Characterization, and Ligand Studies Involving Domains of the Chick Cell Surface Protein Neogenin (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Wen-Ching — Expression, structural and functional studies of fasciclin I (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shiau, Celia Eenjing — Formation of Cranial Sensory Ganglia: Role of Neural Crest-Placode Interactions, Slit-Robo, and Cadherins (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wright, Ashley Palani — Genetic Analysis of Axon Guidance in Drosophila melanogaster (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baker, Catherine Craig — Genetic and Genomic Studies of Shoot and Flower Growth in Arabidopsis (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Liming — Genetic and Neural Regulation of Aggressive Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meulemans, Daniel Keith — Genetic Correlates of Neural Crest Evolution (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Qiao — Glial Cell Development in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lim, Rod S. — How Resources Control Aggression in Drosophila (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Donghun — Identification and Characterization of Endothelial Specific Genes (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vernooy, Stephanie Yeager — Identification of Apoptotic Regulators in Drosophila and their Nonapoptotic Roles in Spermatogenesis: Implications for the Existence of a "Caspase Cassette" which Regulates Diverse Biological Processes (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Copeland, Jeffrey Michael — Identification of Novel Cell Death Regulators in C. elegans and Drosophila (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Paul R. — In vivo analysis of interactions between trans-acting factors and their target genes (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Li (Lily) — Interactions of Multiple Signaling Pathways Generate Tail Patterning During the Development of Caenorhabditis elegans (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Shijia — Light Dependent Regulation of Sleep/Wake States by Prokineticin 2 in Larval Zebrafish (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ding, Dali — Localization of Maternal RNAs in the Early Embryo of Drosophila (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Nirao Mahesh — Mechanisms of Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation in the Mammalian Neural Crest (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Kibeom — Memory and Decoding in Signaling Transduction Pathways (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaudhuri, Aadel Ahmed — MicroRNAs 155 and 125b Physiologically and Pathologically Regulate Hematopoiesis and Immunity (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anaya, Michael Aurelio — Modernization of Monoclonal Antibody Screening and Protein-interaction Assays (2021, 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.))
• Yip, Man Lun Richard — Molecular genetic analysis of morphogenesis in Drosophila : functions of the hindsight locus (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Qi — Molecular genetics of axon guidance in Drosophila melanogaster (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Dan — Molecular mechanisms of interleukin-2 gene inducibility: developmental control and combinatorial action of transcription factors (1994, 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.))
• Inagaki, Hidehiko K. — Neuronal Mechanism of State Control in Drosophila melanogaster (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsu, Alice — Neurotechnology for Multiplexed Interrogation of Brain Circuits and Synaptic Activity (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moreno, Tanya Ann Munnecke — Noelins in Neural Development (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGehee, James Mitchell — Optogenetic Approaches for Determining the Temporal Role of Morphogen Inputs on Target Gene Expression (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hochstim, Christian John — Pax6 Controls Astrocyte Positional Identity in the Spinal Cord (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reichermeier, Kurt Michael — Quantitative Characterization of Composition and Regulation of Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligases (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trisnadi, Nathanie Alna — Regulation of Gastrulation Through Dynamic Patterning in the Drosophila Embryo (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liberman, Louisa M. — Regulation of Neurogenic Ectoderm Specification in Drosophila melanogaster (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khudyakov, Jane Igor — Role of Bmi-1 in Epigenetic Regulation during Early Neural Crest Development (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lesa, Giovanni M. — Signaling by LET-23, a Caenorhabditis elegans Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Homolog (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Livi, Carolina Becker — Spblimp1/krox: A Transcriptional Regulator with a Central Role in Endomesoderm Specification in Sea Urchin Embryos (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Zheng — SpLacZ-MERCS-Coupled CRISPRi Screening Identifies Novel Mitochondria-ER Contact Sites Regulators (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tole, Shubha — Surface markers of regionalization in the vertebrate nervous system (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vázquez, Luis Enrique — SynGAP Controls Synapse Formation by Regulating Spine Development and Morphology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bashirullah, Arash — Temporal and spacial control of RNA stability in the early embryo of Drosophila melanogaster (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Linda S. — The Caenorhabditis elegans lin-15 locus (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montgomery, Jennifer Pielstick — The Effects of Behavioral Stress and Endothelin Receptor Antagonists on Cancer (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Greenwood, Amy L. — The Generation of Peripheral Neuron Diversity from Mammalian Progenitor Cells In Vitro (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garrity, Paul Allen — The in vivo examination of transcriptional control mechanisms in mammalian cells (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Russell James — The LIN-3 gene of the nematode C. elegans is the vulval-inducing signal (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jankowsky, Joanna L. — The Regulations and Role of Cytokines in Models of Synaptic Activity and Plasticity (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hergarden, Anne Christina — The Role of Peptidergic Neurons in the Regulation of Satiety in Drosophila (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paquette, Alice Jean — The Role of the Neuron-Restrictive Silencer Factor During Vertebrate Embryogenesis (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huh, Jun Ryul — To Die or to Differentiate: Apoptotic and Non-Apoptotic Roles of Death Molecules in Drosophila melanogaster (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Yukang — Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Receptor Genes by a Novel CACCC Box Binding Protein (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Hai — Transmembrane Ephrin Ligands in Neural and Vascular Development (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bingol, Baris — Ubiquitin-Proteasome System at the Synapse (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adams, Meghan Sara — Uncovering Molecular Properties of Neural Crest Cells (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mosser, Eric Ardon — Visualization of Cadherin-Cadherin Association in Living Cells (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dixson, Alana Doreen — Zebrafish Magnetite and Long-lived Rohon-Beard Neurons: Expanding Our View of Two Zebrafish Sensory Systems in Development and Adulthood (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))