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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.

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Clinical neuroscience of diabetes and related diseases

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

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Henry V. Huang

Thesis Title: Evolutionary Conservation of the Sindbis Virus Subenomic Promoter

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Molecular, cellular and circuit analysis of circadian rhythms in mammals

Key words
neurobiology, behavior, imaging, circadian rhythm, glia, brain cancer, potassium channels, neuropeptides, astrocytes, glioblastoma, cancer, developmental biology, computational modeling

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Mark Johnston

Thesis Title: Analysis of Cis- and Trans-acting Factors that Affect Expression of GAL4 in the Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae