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    The following is a listing of persons earning MS and PhD degrees through the graduate program in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. The date column contains the date of the thesis defense examination. The name of the major advisor is given in parentheses. The academic year is defined as 9/1 through 8/31. Dates in brackets indicate official University of Minnesota Degree Award date.

    1999-2000 Academic Year
    Name Date Thesis Comments
    Benson, Scott Joseph 6/8/00 [6/30/00] (Conklin, Zarkower) Genetic analysis of two novel avian endogenous viruses from distinct families NA
    Frohnert, Brigitte Isobel 7/18/00 [12/29/00] (Bernlohr) Functional and regulatory studies of the fatty acid transport protein 1 NA
    Gross, Christopher M. 7/25/00 [10/31/00] (Barany) Synthetic studies on bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) NA
    Huynh, Khanh Duc 6/19/00 [6/30/00] (Bardwell) Mechanisms of transcriptional repression by BCL-6 Khanh is doing postdoctoral work with Jeannie Lee at Harvard working on X inactivation.
    Koo, Seung-Hoi 6/29/00 [7/31/00] (Towle) Involvement of a novel transcription factor complex in glucose regulation of hepatic genes Seung-Hoi Koo is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. James Whitlock in the Department of Pharmacology at Stanford University.
    Rocklin, Amy Meredith 7/6/00 [7/31/00] (Lipscomb, Que) Structural and mechanistic studies of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase Amy is currently studying technology patent law at Georgetown University.
    Schweitzer, Jill Kuglin 6/27/00 [7/31/00] (Livingston) CAG trinucleotide repeat instability in yeast NA