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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Andrey S. Shaw

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

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: 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: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

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

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