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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Lawrence B. Salkoff

Thesis Title: Activation of sodium-activated potassium channels by sodium influx

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Undergraduate university: Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2015

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Peter M.J. Burgers

Thesis Title: Regulation of the yeast checkpoint kinase Tel1 by the MRX complex and telomere regulator Rif2

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Virginia Walbot

Thesis Title: "The Genome of Zea Mays: Its Organization and Homology to Related Grasses"

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understanding how the extracellular matrix (ECM) contributes to normal arterial development and how its disruptionleads to abnormal vascular development and disease

Key words
Vascular biology, extracellular matrix, elastin, aneurysms, hypertension

Program: Cellular Developmental & Systemic Biology

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Heschel H. Raskas

Thesis Title: "In Vitro Translation and Peptide Mapping of the Gene Products Encoded by the Transforming Region of Adenovirus Type 2"

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We study RNA folding and RNA binding to proteins

Key words
RNA, NMR, RNA:protein interactions, fluorescence, thermodynamics

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Rochester, 2020

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Leonard L. Banaszak

Thesis Title: The Crystal Structure of E. coli Malate Dehydrog- enase

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: Biophysical insights into emerging virus-host interactions