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Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Joseph M. Jez

Thesis Title: Plant metabolic pathways and regulatory networks for aromatic amino acids and hormones

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: "The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Y Chromosome with Respect to the'Abnormal Abdomen' Syndrome in a Natural Population of 'Drosophila mercatorum' near Kamuela, Hawaii"

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer

Thesis Title: Role of PAK Family Kinases in the Cell Cycle of Budding Yeast

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: John Krais, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2022

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Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: St. Mary's College-California, 2020

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Kristen Kroll

Thesis Title: Subcellular localization mechanisms regulate Geminin activity during embryonic development

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Karen L. O`Malley

Thesis Title: The Role of Oxidative Stress and Unfolder Protein Response in Toxin-based Models of Parkinson's Disease

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cellular and Molecular studies of Alzheimer’s disease

Key words
amyloid, tau, antibodies, apolipoprotein E, Alzheimer’s disease, neurodegeneration, neurobiology

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
New drugs for post-viral and related types of disease

Key words
drug discovery, innate immunity, epithelial stem cells, viruses, respiratory airway disease