MS Degrees Conferred in 2023

• Bradley Bromet - Development of a novel bioink for human vascularized organoids, Advisor - Dr. Julie Semon
• Hsin-Yin Chuang - uPA-Mediated Polyamidoamine Dendrimer-based Targeted Gene Delivery System on Triple-negative Breast Cancer, Advisors Dr. Yue-Wern Huang and Dr. Hu Yang
• Eric Ludwig - Environmental Metabarcoding as a Tool for Fish Community Assessment in Wetlands, Advisor - Dr. David Duvernell
• Cassie Roberts - Application of nitrate to an anaerobic subsurface bioremediation, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Hailey Swain - Evaluation of mesenchymal stem cells in autoimmune disease:  A systematic review and meta-analysis, Advisor - Dr. Julie Semon

MS Degrees Conferred in 2022

• Veronica Marian Lee - Validation of eDNA metabarcoding: A comparison to traditional survey methods in Ozark streams,  Advisor - Dr. David Duvernell

MS Degrees Conferred in 2021

• Nada Abokefa - In vitro and in vivo response to a novel borophosphate bioactive glass, Advisor - Dr. Julie Semon
• Cara Yocom-Russell - Predator scent and presence alter mammal assemblages in the Missouri Ozarks, USA, Advisor - Dr. Robin Verble

MS Degrees Conferred in 2020

• Natalie Holl - Therapeutic DNA: Delivery and as a delivery vehicle, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang
• Taiwo Iromini - Link between energy investment in biosynthesis and cellular resistance to oxidative insults test of cost-quality hypothesis in insects, Advisor - Dr. Chen Hou
• Katherine Mazanec - Aquatic plants and their application to successful floating treatment wetlands, Advisor - Dr. Dev Niyogi
• Catalina Vega Hurtado - Evaluation of the symbiotic relation between endophyte and poplar trees exposed to landfill leachate, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg

MS Degrees Conferred in 2019

• Kody Austin Bassett - A genome wide survey of the insertion sequences in Halanaerobium hydrogeniformans, a haloalkaliphilic anaerobic bacterium, Advisor - Dr. Ronald Frank
• Naznin Sultana Remex - Characterization of chromosomal translocations in a group of killifish species by using genome-wide high-density SNP mapping approach, Advisor - Dr. David Duvernell

MS Degrees Conferred in 2018

• Melissa Hope Cambre - Comparative toxicology of NiO and Ni(OH)? nanoparticles, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang

MS Degrees Conferred in 2017

• Kaleb Bassett - Investigating the sources and dynamics of Escherichia coli in a Missouri Ozarks watershed, Advisor - Dr. Dev Niyogi
• Sahitya Injamuri - Combination of BMP-2 and relaxin to induce osteogenesis in vivo, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang
• Shivani Kalia - Media optimization, scale-up and repeated fed-batch operations for the production of 1,3-propanediol from glycerol by halanaerobium hydrogeniformans, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile

MS Degrees Conferred in 2016

• Michael C. Sadler - Characterization of insertion sequence IS605 in halanaerobium hydrogeniformans, Advisor - Dr. Ronald Frank

MS Degrees Conferred in 2015

• Palihawadana Walauwe Kamalika Kaushalya Amunugama - Sensitivity of cellular oxidative damage to biosynthetic rate and metabolic rate, Advisor - Dr. Chen Hou
• Tiffany Charlynn Edwards - pH dependent antibiotic resistance of an alkaliphilic, halotolerant bacterium isolated from Soap Lake, Washington, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile

MS Degrees Conferred in 2014

• Lihong Jiao - Energy tradeoffs between food assimilation, growth, metabolism and maintenance, Advisor - Dr. Chen Hou
• Daniel Patrick Miller - Dephosphorylation of Iqg1 by Cdc14 temporally regulates actin ring formation, Advisor - Dr. Katie Shannon
• Lisa Snoderly-Foster - Characterization of a plant gene family expanded in glycine max, Advisor - Dr. Ronald Frank
• Gregory Travis Thompson - Ecology of a declining great plains fish, Fundulus sciadicus, in the Missouri Ozarks, Advisor - Dr. Dev Niyogi
• Richard Jeffrey Watters - Investigation of angiogenic effects of bioactive borate glass microfibers and beads in a rodent model, Advisor - Dr. Roger Brown

MS Degrees Conferred in 2013

• Megan Ottomeyer - Broad-spectrum antibacterial properties of metal-ion doped borate bioactive glasses for clinical applicationsr, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg
• Daniel William Roush - Production of 1,3-propanediol from glycerol under haloalkaline conditions by halanaerobium hydrogeniformans, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Kele Qwinn Thrailkill - Wetting and drying cycles and the fungal communities on leaf litter in streams, Advisor - Dr. Dev Niyogi

MS Degrees Conferred in 2012

• Yinan Lin - In vivo evaluation of microfibrous bioactive borate glasses for use in wound healing, Advisor - Dr. Roger Brown
• Gena Robertson - Analysis of a wound-induced gene family in Glycine max, Advisor - Dr. Ronald Frank
• Chi-heng Wu - Physiochemical characteristics contributing to the cytotoxicity of transition metal oxides, Advisor - Dr. Yue-Wern Huang
• Satya Gowthami Achanta - Meso-scale fluidic devices with chemical sensors for biological applications, (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Co-Advisors - Dr. David Westenberg and Dr. Chang-Soo Kim

MS Degrees Conferred in 2011

• Ninu Madria - Synthesis and toxicity studies of imidazolium-based ionic liquids, Advisors - Dr. Prakash Reddy and Dr. Yue-wern Huang
• April Lyn Rocha - Isolation and characterization of bacterial symbionts from Crotalaria spectabilis grown on trichloroethene contaminated soil, Advisor - Dr. Westenberg
• Katherine E. Stockstill - Mutation of the Hof1 pest domain affects cytokinesis in budding yeast, Advisor - Dr. Katie Shannon

MS Degrees Conferred in 2010

• Bonnie Jean Beasley - Analysis of Eurycea hybrid zone in eastern Missouri, Advisor Dr. Anne Maglia
• Barbara Ann Catherine Fears - Laryngeal apparatus and call structure in North American hylids, Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Sarah Beth Havens - The role of skeletal development in body size evolution of two North American frogs, Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Hsiu-Jen Wang - Zinc oxide nanoparticle disruption of store-operated calcium entry in a muscarinic receptor signaling pathway, Advisor - Dr. Robert Aronstam

MS Degrees Conferred in 2009

• Chuan-Chin Huang - Oxidative stress, calcium homeostasis, and altered gene expression in human lung epithelial cells exposed to ZnO nanoparticles, Advisor - Dr. Yue-Wern Huang
• Vernon C. Modglin - In vitro evaluation of bioactive glass scaffolds and modified bioactive glasses with an osteogenic cell line, Advisor - Dr. Roger Brown
• Varun Paul - Electricity generation and ethanol production using iron-reducing, haloalkaliphilic bacteria, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Malavika Sinha - Characterization of selected isolates from hypersaline lakes in Western Australia and Victoria, Australia,  Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Karissa Braaten - Antimicrobial activity of the volatile oxidized by-products of biogenic oil, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg
• Yi Xu - Nona-arginine peptides facilitate cellular entry of semiconductor nanocrystals: mechanisms of uptake, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang

MS Degrees Conferred in 2008

• Su Young Park - Role of microtubules in budding yeast cytokinesis, Advisor - Dr. Katie Shannon
• Maria Louise Potter - AFLP fingerprint analysis of hybrid salamanders in the Missouri Caverns section of Onondaga Cave, Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Erin Kathleen Pringle - The identification and characterization of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase gene family members in glycine max, Advisor - Dr. Ronald Frank

MS Degrees Conferred in 2007

• Bo-Young Hong - Microbial ecology of hypersaline lakes in Western Australia and Victoria, Australia, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Andrew Gabriel Jugan - Water cycling effects of Populus deltoides x Populus nigra, clone #34 on the degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile, co-advised with Dr. Joel Burken
• Aruna Lamba - Antimicrobial activities of aldehydes and ketones produced during rapid volatilization of biogenic oils, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg
• Jung Eun Park - Screening new cytokinesis genes and investigation of regulation of Hof1 in cytokinesis, Advisor - Dr. Katie Shannon
• Pradnya Pandurang Patil - Influence of S-nitrosylation on muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, Advisor - Dr. Robert Aronstam
• Amanda Jean Weimer - Physical, chemical and biological characteristics contributing to vegetation distribution on the lower Missouri River floodplain, Advisor - Dr. Dev Niyogi

MS Degrees Conferred in 2006

• Loretta D. Hunter - A review of human exposure to estrogens and an ecologic study of atrazine exposure and breast cancer incidence in Missouri counties, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang
• Shitalben Radheshyambhai Patel - Select anaerobic metabolisms in Soap Lake, Washington, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Sangeetha Ramamurthy - Evaluation of antimicrobial activities of volatiles produced during rapid volatilization of oils, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg

MS Degrees Conferred in 2005

• Hugo Alamillo - Caudal autotomy in West Indian Amphisbaena, Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Barbara L. Banbury - Comparative development and osteogenesis of cranial and post-cranial elements in pelobatid tadpoles (anura: pelobatidae), Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Chih-Chin Liu - Endocrine disrupting chemicals in streams of Northern and Southern Missouri, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang
• John J. Macauley - Diversity of tetracycline resistant bacterial isolates and disinfection treatment of swine lagoons, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile, co-advised with Dr. Craig Adams
• Kacey Elizabeth Morris - Nitric oxide, cGMP signaling, and gravity-dependent cellular polarity in Ceratopteris richardII, Advisor - Dr. D. M. Potterfield
• Jiyeon Park - Iron, heme, and oxygen regulation of the hemA and sdh genes from the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg
• Mauricio E. Solis, Water quality assessment, hormone profile and hematology of Ozark hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) in the North Fork of the White River and the Eleven, Advisor - Dr. Yue-wern Huang

MS Degrees Conferred in 2004

• Pedro A. Dimitriu - Microbial diversity of a meromictic soda lake: seasonal and spatial patterns, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile
• Jason C. Elrod - Identification and characterization of acyl-homoserine lactone signaling molecules produced by varying strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Advisor - Dr. David Westenberg
• Adam Lee Martin - Effects of geographic distance and dispersal barriers on amphibian polymorphism, Advisor - Dr. Anne Maglia
• Michelle Von Arb - Microbial Populations in Anaerobic Swine Lagoon Treatment, Advisor - Dr. Melanie Mormile, coadvised with Dr. Joel Burken

MS Degrees Conferred in 1932

• Arthur Royal Powell - A study of poverty and dependency in Phelps County for 1931,