People

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
We study host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions in the female reproductive and urinary tracts, with a focus on the vaginal microbiome and UTIs

Key words
urinary tract infection, vaginal microbiome, women's health, host-pathogen interactions, mucosal immunology

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: John P. Atkinson

Thesis Title: Neisseria gonorrhoeae Induced Downregulation and Redistibution of CD46

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Development of a breast cancer vaccine

Key words
antigen presentation, breast cancer, translational research, T cells, vaccine

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Stacey L. Rentschler

Thesis Title: Programming the Myocardium: the Notch-Wnt Axis

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2014

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: C. Robert R. Cloninger

Thesis Title: "Phenotypic and Genetic Heterogeneity in Alcoholism"

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Alex S. Holehouse

Thesis Title: “Understanding the chemical context of interactions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins"

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Jonathan R. Brestoff, MD, PhD, MPH

Undergraduate university: Fisk University, 2017

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Charles Kaufman, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Truman State University, 2018

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Warren R. Gish

Thesis Title: ScriptSure: Computational analysis of human ESTs translates to an informative representation of the transcript data