People

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Our laboratory develops and uses novel neuroanatomical and neuroimaging computerized brain mapping methods to study the structure, function, connectivity, parcellation, development, and evolution of cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates in health and disease.

Key words
Neuroanatomy Connectomics Neuroimaging Neuroradiology Medical Image Analysis

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Mark B. Willard

Thesis Title: "The Neurofilament Crossbridge Protein and Its Involvement in the Formation of the Axonal Cytoskeleton"

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: Species Diversification in an Adaptive Radiation: A Comparative Analysis of Anolis Lizards

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: The genetic basis of adaptation to environmental stress in two grass genomic model systems

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1985

Thesis Advisor: Carl Frieden

Thesis Title: "Mechanism of Action of Cytochalasin D on Actin Polymerization"

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Charles Kaufman

Thesis Title: Functional analysis of recurrent non-coding variants in human melanoma

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Waterston

Thesis Title: "The Muscle -Affecting Gene unc-87 of Caenorhabditis elegans." Short title: The unc-87 Gene of C. elegans

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Grant Challen, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2025

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Michael A. Province

Thesis Title: Functional Synonymous SNVs: Novel Methodology and Framework for Identification

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Biochemistry of malaria

Key words
biochemistry, metabolism, parasitology, malaria, protease, heme, aspartic