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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Niraj H. Tolia

Thesis Title: Structure, function, and antibody-mediated inhibition of Plasmodium CelTOS, a protein that enables cell traversal by malaria parasites

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Megan T. Baldridge, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Berkeley, 2023

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD

Undergraduate university: Zhejiang University, 2022

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
We use human genetic, functional genomic, and bioinformatic approaches to understand the consequence of genetic variants underlying diseases

Key words
Functional genomics, bioinformatics, human genetics, data science, rare diseases, structural variation

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
I am interested in precursor conditions or metaplasias in the stomach and esophagus (i.e Barrett’s esophagus) as these lesions are key to understanding the formation of gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas.

Key words
Intestinal metaplasia, gastroesophageal cancer, Barrett's esophagus, GI development, Organoids

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Alison Goate

Thesis Title: Identification of functional variants in Alzheimer's disease-associated genes

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Samantha A. Morris

Thesis Title: Title of Dissertation: Dissecting the role of chromatin remodeling in direct lineage reprogramming

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Daniel S. Ory

Thesis Title: snoRNA U17 as a Novel Regulator of Cholesterol Homeostasis

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Emma C. Johnson, PhD

Undergraduate university: Drexel University, 2022

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Anthony J. Muslin

Thesis Title: The Roles of Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) Proteins in Ras-mediated Signaling