People

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Developing and testing microbiota-directed therapeutic foods to treat childhood undernutrition

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Elucidating and understanding molecular mechanisms of axonal degeneration and regeneration in neuropathies

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Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Joan E. Strassmann

Thesis Title: Genomic Signatures of Conflict and Cooperation in Plants and Social Amoebae

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Kian Lim, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Central China Normal University, 2022

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Interfaces and adhesions in physiology and nature

Key words
mechanics, physics, interfaces, adhesion, mechanobiology, strain mapping, viscoelasticity

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Barbara G. Pickard

Thesis Title: "A Plasmalemmal Reticulum with Specialized Vertices"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Stanley Misler

Thesis Title: "Alpha-latrotoxin as a Secretagogue of Endocrine Cells"

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Andrew B. Janowski, MD

Undergraduate university: Vermont University, 2021

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: The Semiotics of Subdivision: An Empirical Study of the Population Structure of Trimerotropis saxatilis (Acrididae)

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, preclinical and translational research

Key words
pain, optogenetics, ion channel, synaptic transmission, signal transduction, electrophysiology, in vivo imaging, genetics