People

Danielle is responsible for data and project management associated with all curriculum in the DBBS, including: data gathering and reporting, education technology, curriculum operations, online course listings, and internal records.

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Development and application of mass spectrometry in biophysics, biochemistry, and medicine

Key words
amyloid beta biophysics, biochemistry, biophysics, mass spectrometry, protein-protein interaction, protein structure,

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
The molecular mechanisms through which biologic membranes participate in cellular activation processes

Key words
phospholipase A2, diabetes, obesity, receptor, myocardial ischemia, lipid metabolism

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Susana Gonzalo

Thesis Title: A new pathway responsible for 53BP1 loss in breast cancer and laminopathies

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
We work on what induces the inner ear in the first place, how the sensory organs of the ear acquire their exquisite pattern, and whether it will ever be possible to regenerate the sensory hair cells of the inner ear in the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Key words
inner ear, development, regeneration, sensory neuroscience, balance, deafness, embryo, transcription factors, epigenetics, tunicates, squid

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Gabriel G. Waksman

Thesis Title: Thermodynamics of Molecular Recognition by the Tandem SH2 Domain of SYK Kinase

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Ecological and Genetic Consequences of Climate Change Impacting Species Distributions, with Specific Cases in Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.)

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Statistical genetics and bioinformatics, high-dimensional data analysis and complex systems modeling, developing novel methodologies for detecting complex disease genes and characterizing their function

Key words
genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: "Biosystematics of Kalimeris"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Variation and Plasticity of DNA Methylation in Genome Regulation