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Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Phylogeography of Oryza rufipogon: history, demography and climate change

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Dissecting the Role and Regulation of Transcription Factor Zeb2 in Hematopoiesis

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Oltz

Thesis Title: Epigenetic Regulation of Lymphocyte Development and Transformation

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Yin Cao, ScD, MPH

Undergraduate university: Westminster College, 2024

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: David D. Schlessinger

Thesis Title: Structure and Function of the Human Glypican 3 Gene

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Miranda Orr, PhD

Undergraduate university: Middle Tennessee State University, 2021

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Glutamate receptors, synaptic transmission and stem cell differentiation

Key words
stem cells, differentiation, synapse biology, receptor, ion channel

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
I seek to improve global cardiovascular health across the spectrum of disease prevention through rigorous research, including the development, adaptation, and implementation of evidence-based interventions, practices, and policies into routine practice at scale.

Key words
global cardiovascular health, dissemination and implementation science, trials, health systems, policy

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Barry P. Sleckman

Thesis Title: Functional Analysis of Requirements for the Targeting of V beta to D beta Rearrangement in the TCR beta Locus

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Stephen "Kerry" K. Kornfeld

Thesis Title: Characterization of Reproductive Aging in C. elegans Hermaphrodites