People

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
The rational structure-based drug design and synthesis for cancer and infectious disease

Key words
protease, kinase, cancer, infection, lectin, chemistry, synthesis, drug discovery, peptidomimetic, inhibitor

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Epigenetic dynamics in normal and disease models

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Ivan Baxter, PhD

Undergraduate university: Canisius College, 2022

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Timothy A. Graubert

Thesis Title: The Genetic Basis of Susceptibility to Therapy-related Leukemia in Mice

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

Key words
Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, amyloid, tau, mouse models, risk factors, lysosome, gene therapy

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Neurosciences

Research summary
Characterization of human diseases associated with novel viral infections

Key words
Virology, microbiology, pathogen discovery, host-virus interactions, viral immunity, astroviruses, encephalitis, myocarditis, viral RNA structures

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Tamara Hershey, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Notre Dame, 2020

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
we study the molecular mechanisms that regulate the architecture, dimensions and dynamics of actin filament networks, and tune them to support essential cellular functions including cell migration, intracellular trafficking and cytokinesis.

Key words
actin cytoskeleton, microtubule, single molecule, live cell imaging, protein transport, Golgi, confocal microscopy

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Keith B. Hengen, PhD

Undergraduate university: Vanderbilt University, 2021

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: James M. Cheverud

Thesis Title: "Genetic, Behavioral, and Social Effects on Fitness Components in Marmosets and Tamarins (Family: Callitrichidae)"