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Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Somatic variant identification and driver gene discovery using TCGA

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD

Undergraduate university: Amherst College, 2022

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1984

Thesis Advisor: Mark B. Willard

Thesis Title: "Axonal Transport of Membrane-Associated Polypeptides in the Mammalian Visual System"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Timothy J. Ley, MD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2017

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Bruce A. Carlson

Thesis Title: Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Temporal Pattern Recognition

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Utilizing the power of genetics to elucidate the molecular pathogenesis of disease and transform patient care

Key words
Genetics, genomics, transcription factors, rare disease

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Defining the mechanisms behind and effects of the interactions between commensal bacteria, pathogens and innate immunity

Key words
microbiota, infection, pathogen, microbiome, virus, interferon, immunity

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: Biophysical Studies of Ectromelia Virus-Encoded Cytokine and Chemokine Decoy Receptors

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Carlos A. Botero

Thesis Title: Avian adaptation to thermal gradients

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Veis

Thesis Title: The Role of Mitofusins in the Osteoclast Lineage