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Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jay W. Ponder

Thesis Title: Multipole Electrostatic Methods for Protein Modeling with Reaction Field Treatment

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Li Ding, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Southern California, 2022

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Olsen

Thesis Title: Determining the Mechanisms of Recurrent
Cyanogenesis Cline Evolution in Trifolium repens (White Clover)

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Ian W. Duncan

Thesis Title: Pattern Formation in the Adult Abdomen of Drosophila

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty

Thesis Title: Determining the Genetic Contributions of the Williams Syndrome Critical Region to Behavior Using Mouse Models and Human Genetics

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Lucia C. Strader

Thesis Title: Investigating auxin signaling through AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR interactions and stability

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
organismal aging; zinc homeostasis and roles of zinc during cell differentiation.

Key words
aging, metals, zinc, development, sperm activation, signal transduction, homeostasis

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Robert W. Mercer

Thesis Title: Structure and Function Analysis of the Na,K-ATPase

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: David D. Russell

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Mycobacterium avium-containing phagosome.

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: John P. Atkinson

Thesis Title: Studies on the mislocalized exonuclease TREX1 that causes a systemic vasculopathy