Master & Senior Thesis Supervision

Thesis Advisor/Mentor, completed:

Rebecca D. Obermoeller, M.S.  "Partial characterization of an XRCC-like locus in Xiphophorus fishes".  Completed- August 1991.
[Currently working as Research Associate, Ambion Inc., Austin TX]

Karl A. Morton, M.S.  "Cloning, DNA sequence determination, and evolutionary comparison of the Haemophilus influenzae mutB1 gene".  Completed - December 1991. (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient)
[Currently working at the CODIS Facility, Texas Department of Corrections Crime Laboratory, Austin TX]

Luis Della Coletta, M.S.  "Cloning and DNA sequence analysis of the Xiphophorus maculatus ERCC2 genetic locus".  Completed - May 1993. (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient)
[Currently Senior Research Associate, Cancer Biology, U.T.-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville]

Sallyanne Fossey, M.S.  "Cloning, DNA sequence, and expression analysis of the Xiphophorus maculatus ß-Actin gene".  Completed - May 1993.
[Ph.D. in Cell Biology & Genetics from Wake Forest University, NC, completed 200, Currently Research Scientist at Vanderbilt University]

Trisha Tuley, M.S.  "Characterization of the uracil-N-glycosylase locus of Xiphophorus maculatus".  Completed - December, 1994. 
[Currently working as a Research Assistant in Neurobiology, Southwest Research Foundation, Dallas, TX]

Jody Williams, M.S.  "Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) to identify largemouth bass subspecies and their intergrades".  Completed - July 1996.
[Currently working as a Forensic Scientist, Texas Department of Corrections Crime Laboratory, Austin TX]

Dana D. Moore, B.S. (Senior Honors Thesis). "Nucleotide sequence, evolutionary conservation, and linkage map assignment of the insulinoma rig gene orthologue in Xiphophorus maculatus". Completed - December, 1995.
[Completed M.S. in Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX –1997 ;  Currently Research Associate, Cancer Biology, U.T.-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville].

Art Braden, M.S., "Characterization of the Xiphophorus JUNA  locus". Completed - July, 1996.  (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient; Biology Colloquium Best Graduate Paper Award).  [Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering, U.T. Arlington, Arlington, TX , completed 2003]

Steve Gilmer, M.S.  "Isolation, nucleotide sequence determination and mapping of the Xiphophorus maculatus JUNB locus".  Completed - July, 1996.
[Employed at an Austin, TX, Environmental testing laboratory]

Gabriel Intano, M.S.  "Spontaneous mutation frequencies during spermatogenesis in transgenic mice".  Completed - July, 1996. (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient). 
[Ph.D. Program in Cell & Structural. Biology from the U.T. Health Science. Ctr. at San Antonio, completed 2002]

Hai-Ying Li , M.S.  "Analysis of methylation pattern stability in fishes:  Methylation pattern inheritance in Xiphophorus interspecies crosses and during early embryonic development of Oryzias."  Completed - Fall 1996. (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient). 
[Currently working as Research Associate, Cancer Biology, U.T.-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX]

Karen Lord - M.S. (Non-thesis track), Initiated study Spring 1996. Completed Fall 1998.

Huang-Mo, Sung, M.S.  "Characterization of O⁶-Methylguanine DNA Methyltransferase and Base Excision DNA Repair Activity In Xiphophorus Fishes".  Completed - Summer 1997.  (Coker Fellowship Award Recipient). 
[Ph.D. Program in Molecular Biology & Genetics from the University of Texas at Dallas, completed 2003]

Jarah Meador - M.S. “Nucleotide Excision Repair and Photoenzymatic Repair in Xiphophorus Fishes”.  Completed  - May 1999.
[Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park -Research Division, Smithville, TX , completed 2004].

Angela Wheeler - M.S. "Partial Nucleotide Sequence, Mapping, and Relative Expression of a Xiphophorus Fish NFI Gene".  Completed -April 2001.  (Best Student Presentation award - Biology Colloquium - 2000 and Texas Genetic Society meeting - 2001)
[Currently working as Research Technician, Ambion Inc. – Austin, TX]

Christina Daniels - M.S. "Nucleotide Sequence, Mapping, and Relative Expression of the Xiphophorus maculatus Cyclophilin 40 Gene (PPID)".  Completed April, 2001.  MS-Ph.D. Bridge Student, Selected to Attend Berkeley Edge Conference, Selected for oral presentation 2001 SACNAS national Conference)
[Currently in Ph.D. student in Virology at University of Kansas, Lawrence]

Kevin Kelner - M.S.  "Molecular Characterization, Transcriptional Expression, and Mapping of a X. maculatus RAB27 Gene.  Completed - Summer, 2001, 
[Currently working as a Research Technician, Ambion Inc., Austin Texas]

Vandeeta  Khanolkar  - M.S.  "Study of the CDKN2D (P19) Locus in Xiphophorus".  Completed - Summer 2003, SWT Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
[Currently working as Research Technician, Mayo Clinic, Dept. of Neuroscience, Jacksonvillle, FL]

Ramiro Thomas Sosa -  M.S.  "Molecular Characterization, and Expression of the Xiphophorus maculatus Apurinc/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease Gene.  Completed - Fall 2003, SWT Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
[Currently in Ph.D. studies in Biochemistry at University of Texas, Austin]

Lucretia Krause, B.S. (Senior Honors Thesis).  ""Cloning and Nucleotide sequence analyses of the Xiphophorus maculatus Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Gene". 
Completed - December, 2003. 

Sabrina Dartez, B.S. (Senior Honors Thesis).  "Cloning and Nucleotide sequence analyses of the Xiphophorus maculatus Aryl Hydrocarbon Nuclear Translocation Factor (ARNT) Gene". 
Completed - December, 2003. 

Arnold Ruijmgaart, M.S., "Cloning and expression of a Fappy-N-Glycosylase (FEN-1) in Xiphophorus".
Completed Spring 2005 (Outstanding graduate student award recipient).

Douglas Barth, M.S., "Characterization of Xiphophorus maculatus Polymerase ß Containing a Site Directed Mutation at Aspartic Acid 63".
Completed Summer 2006.

Amy Nicole Perez, M.S. "Identification of Differentially Expressed Proteins in Xiphophorus Fishes of the Gordon-Kosswig Melanoma Model".
Completed Summer 2006.