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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2026

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: Defining the roles of cDC subsets in antigen presentation: from tumor to mRNA vaccines

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Fanxin Long

Thesis Title: The Function of Hedgehog Signaling in Embryonic and Postnatal Bone Development

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Michele LeRoux, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2022

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Novel immunotherapeutic strategies to treat solid tumors

Key words

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Eric E. Brown

Thesis Title: Integrin-associated Protein (IAP, CD47) in Leukocyte and Endothelial Function

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Molecular mechanisms of skeletal and cardiac muscle development and disease

Key words
muscle, congenital disease, organogenesis, gene discovery

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Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Gaya K. Amarasinghe

Thesis Title: Marburg Virus is Not Ebola Virus:
Biochemical and Structural Insights into Mechanisms of Immune Evasion

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1981

Thesis Advisor: Milton M. Schlesinger

Thesis Title: "The Molecular Transport and Assembly of the Glycoproteins of Sinbis and Vesicular Stomatitis Viruses in Infected Cells"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Amber Stratman

Thesis Title: Lysosomes as Gatekeepers: How LIC1-Mediated Trafficking Regulates Angiogenesis and Vascular Morphogenesis