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Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: Gerald G. Fischbach

Thesis Title: "A Study in Early Myogenesis: Acetylcholine Receptor Expression by Monomucleated Muscle Cells of the Chick"

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Current advisor: Brian Clark, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2008

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Alex Holehouse, PhD

Undergraduate university: Knox College, 2024

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: David D. Chaplin

Thesis Title: Processing and Release of Interleukin-1

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Virginia Walbot

Thesis Title: "Isolation and Characterization of the Host and Nonhost-Specific Toxins of Helminthosporium May-dis, Race T and Race O"

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1982

Thesis Advisor: Leonard L. Banaszak

Thesis Title: "The Crystal Structure of L-3 Hydroxyacyl Coenzyme a Dehydrogenase"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw

Thesis Title: Novel mechanisms of Lck regulation in the immunological synapse

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Rohit V. Pappu

Thesis Title: Sequence Determinants of the Individual and Collective Behaviour of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Understand how function is encoded into disordered sequences using a combination of computational and experimental approaches

Key words
Disordered proteins, IDPs, IDRs, phase transitions, emergence, deep learning, AI, bird-themed software packages

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: HIV-2Vpx: Virion Incorporation, Nuclear Import, and Ii Association