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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner

Thesis Title: Dendritic Processing and Efficient Coding in the Retina

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Transient Kinetic Studies on the Mechanism of DNA binding, DNA unwinding, and DNA-stimulated ATPase Activity by the Escherichia coli Rep helicase

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Understanding T cell tolerance to self and non-self

Key words
autoimmunity, immunology, lymphocyte, regulatory T cell, tolerance, mucosal immunology

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Dave Pagliarini, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2022

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Understanding patterns and mechanisms of long-term ecosystem dynamics under changing climatic conditions

Key words
ecosystem ecology, quaternary paleoecology, climatic change and biotic response, soil and sediment biogeochemistry

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Emil R. Unanue

Thesis Title: The Immunoregulation of Autoimmune Diabetes

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Timothy M. Miller, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2018

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Regulation of prostate neuroendocrine cell differentiation and tumorigenesis

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor:

Undergraduate university: Hebei University of Science and Technology, 2021

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Corneal epithelial wound healing, neovascularization and stromal dystrophies

Key words
amyloid, epithelial cells, protein folding, siRNA, stem cells, vision