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Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Natalie M. Niemi, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2022

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Ralph S. Quatrano

Thesis Title: The Role of the Arp2/3 Complex in Tip Growth of Plant Cells

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Meredith E. Jackrel, PhD

Undergraduate university: Franklin & Marshall College, 2020

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Gregory F. Wu, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Colorado-Boulder, 2021

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Bart

Thesis Title: A dynamic duo: Investigating the
interactions between Xanthomonas
citri pv. malvacearum and
Pseudomonas syringae

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Circumventing drug resistance with small molecule inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2018

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: John E. Majors

Thesis Title: Transcriptional Control of Avian Myeloblastosis Virus

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Jay W. Ponder

Thesis Title: Potential Function Smoothing and Applications to Molecular Docking

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
The ecology and ethnobotany of mountain ecosystems

Key words
ecology, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, phenology, plant science