People

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: John G. Csernansky

Thesis Title: Medial Temporal Lobe Structure and Function

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Jacco Boon, PhD

Undergraduate university: Trinity University, 2020

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Epigenetic Mechanisms and Senescence in Aging and Cancer

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Kodi S. Ravichandran, PhD

Undergraduate university: Vilnius University

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Helen McNeill, PhD

Undergraduate university: Georgia State University, 2019

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Jay W. Heinecke

Thesis Title: Regulation of Matrix Metalloproteinases by Phagocyte-generated Reactive Oxygen Species

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Understand fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive the biogenesis and dynamics of intracellular membrane compartments

Key words
cytoskeleton, membranes, intracellular trafficking, organelle biogenesis, fluorescence, crystallography

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Aditi Gupta, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2023

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2023

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey P. Henderson

Thesis Title: Copper-mediated Regulation of a Traditional
Iron Acquisition System in Uropathogenic
Escherichia coli