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Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Charles Kaufman, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Virginia, 2019

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Michael J. Holtzman

Thesis Title: Influenza Induces a Chronic Inflammatory Lung Disease

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Understanding the learning mechanisms of the brain from theoretical and computational perspectives

Key words
Computational neuroscience, Synaptic plasticity, Olfaction, Deep learning

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Utilization of genomic information from sarcomas to better understand the pathogenesis of these tumors and to identify biomarkers and therapeutic targets for these aggressive cancers.

Key words
sarcoma, metastasis, genomics, cell signalling, NF1, MPNST

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Innate immunity in the inner ear

Key words
inflammation, inner ear, cochlear injury, monocytes, macrophages, blood labyrinth barrier

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Donald Franklin Conrad

Thesis Title: Application of Genomic Technologies to Study Infertility - Prediction and Validation of Novel Fertility Gene Candidates

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Mark Johnston

Thesis Title: Analysis of DNA-binding Proteins in Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Obi L. Griffith, PhD

Undergraduate university: Earlham College, 2020

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Robert Roeder

Thesis Title: "Transcriptional Regulation by the Adenovirus E1A Protein"

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Carl Frieden

Thesis Title: "Sidechain Behavior During Folding of E. coli Dihydrofolate Redfuctase Studied by Stopped-Flow 19F NMR"