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Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1982

Thesis Advisor: Edward G. Jones

Thesis Title: "An Examination of the Structure of Monkey First Somatic Sensory Cortex"

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
We take a "big data" approach to understanding the self-organization of neurons and networks in behaving animals.

Key words
Homeostatic plasticity, behavior, neurodegeneration, self-organization, emergence, learning, computational, computation, modeling

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Evolutionary developmental morphology of the plant family Araceae

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Miller

Thesis Title: "Electrogenic Responses of Dissociated Muller (Glial) Cells from the Neotenous Tiger Salamander Retina"

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Kelly R. Monk

Thesis Title: The Role of Actr10 in Nervous System Development and Disease

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Elizabeth Mallott, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2023

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Gabriel G. Waksman

Thesis Title: "Structural and Biocemical Studies of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Activation by Heparin"

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
We aim to identify cellular and molecular mechanisms in the novel and rapidly expanding field of interorgan crosstalk in health and disease.

Key words

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Clinical neuroscience of diabetes and related diseases

Key words
neuroimaging, diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, Wolfram Syndrome, Parkinson disease, cognition, mood