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Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: A Population Genetic Study of the Eusocial Naked Mole-Rat Heterocephaslus Glaber

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Christine E. Edwards, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Colombo, 2020

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: John R. Cirrito

Thesis Title: The Regulation of Extracellular Amyloid-β Levels by AMPA Receptors in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model

Program affiliation
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Research summary
Electron microscopy of cells and molecules

Key words
cell membrane, cytoskeleton, endocytosis, electron microscopy, extracellular matrix

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Molecular mechanisms mediating the effects of acute dietary vitamin A deficiency on a defined model human gut microbiota

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra

Thesis Title: Gene Expression and Enhancer Discovery in the Neural Crest

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Peter D. Lukasiewicz

Thesis Title: "Regulation of Excitatory Neurotransmission in the Salamander Retina"

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Henry V. Huang

Thesis Title: Gene Expression During HL60 Macrophage-Like Differentiation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin

Thesis Title: The Relationship Between Size, Growth Rate, and the Cell Cycle in Bacteria

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow

Thesis Title: The role of Fibroblast Growth Factor-9 in influenza A virus pathogenesis