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Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Neuroimaging to better understand the brain in vivo

Key words
aging, neuroimaging, Alzheimer, brain, fMRI, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, cognition, PET

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
I use MRI in humans to understand the network organization of the brain in health and disease

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Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity

Key words
Gut microbiome; systems biology; postnatal development; childhood malnutrition; global health; gnotobiotic animal models; metabolic regulation; food webs; gut-brain axis; gut barrier/immune function; microbiome-targeted therapeutics

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: Characterization of Actin-Like Protein1 (ALP1), a novel actin-related protein in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Elizabeth Draganova

Undergraduate university: Oglethorpe University, 2023

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Cynthia Rogers, MD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2019

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1979

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Johnson

Thesis Title: "Effects of Nerve Growth Factor Deprivation on theDeveloping and Mature Mannalian Nervous System: An Autoimmune Model"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Flaviviruses: Innate Restriction and Host Adaptation

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Ross L. Cagan

Thesis Title: Candidate Cell Death Genes in Drosophila

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Leveraging Microbes to Improve Cancer Outcomes