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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: Understanding gene regulation with high-throughput genome-integrated reporter assays

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Patrick Y. Jay

Thesis Title: A Search for Genetic Modifiers Responsible for Congenital Heart Disease Variability in the Presence of Nkx2-5 Haploinsufficiency

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1985

Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy

Thesis Title: "Ti Plasmid Region Responsible for the HyperVirulent Phenotype of Agrobacterium"

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Jacques U. Baenziger

Thesis Title: Molecular Cloning and Characterization of an Oligosaccharide-Specific Sulfotransferase

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman

Thesis Title: The role of phenylacetic acid (PAA) catabolism in Acinetobacter physiology

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: David D. Silbert

Thesis Title: "The Isolation and Characterization of Mutants in Phosphatidylinositol Metabolism"

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: Ian W. Duncan

Thesis Title: Deficiency Analysis of the Bithorax Complex in Drosophila Melanogaster Short: Deficiency Analysis of the BithoraxComplex

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Our lab studies airway and motile cilia biology and investigates the effects of mutations on cilia function

Key words
cilia, PCD, airway, lung

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Ted H. Hansen

Thesis Title: "Molecular and Functional Characterization of T Cell Receptor Interaction with MHC/Class I Peptide Complexes"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Lijuan Feng

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2023