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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

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Computational and mathematical modeling of host and microbial community responses to microbiota-directed complementary foods administered to children with acute malnutrition

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Kelly R. Monk

Thesis Title: Genetic and genomic dissections of myelinating glial cell development

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: A mechanistic and genomic analysis of molluscum contagiosum virus immune evasion

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Elizabeth Ann Pollina, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Rochester, 2022

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

Research summary
Understand the impact of time as a biological variable in the development of critical illness such as sepsis, respiratory failure and chronic inflammatory lung disease

Key words

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Andrew Young, MD,PhD

Undergraduate university: Northwestern University, 2021

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Joseph Jez, PhD

Undergraduate university: Imperial College, 2024

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Mark S. Sands

Thesis Title: Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy: Investigations into Pathogenesis and Therapy