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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Katherine C. Fuh

Thesis Title: Identification and Characterization of Targets of Metastasis in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

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

Research summary
My lab works on the host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We use mouse models that mimic key aspects of human disease to gain a mechanistic understanding of the host response allowing for the identification of novel targets for host-directed therapies.

Key words
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, innate immunology, macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson`s disease and related disorders

Key words
lipid metabolism, mouse models, neurodegeneration, pathogenesis, phospholipase A2, Parkinson disease

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Quantitative cardiovascular physiology, mathematical modeling of systems physiology, imaging

Key words
biophysics, cardiology, cardiovascular physiology, echocardiography, imaging, mathematical modeling

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Miller

Thesis Title: MicroRNAs in ALS: Defining Cell-Type Specific Expression, Developing Methods to Modulate MicroRNAs in vivo, and Identifying Novel Therapeutic Targets

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Evolutionary and Ecological Diversification in Eastern North American Plethodontid Salamanders: Speciation, Ecomorphological Divergence, and Community Assembly in a Salamander Biodiversity Hotspot

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio

Thesis Title: PMP2+ SCs maintain the survival and functioning of large-caliber motor axons

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Paul W. Hruz

Thesis Title: “Modulation of human and malarial glucose transporter activity by lipids and small molecules”

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Our laboratory focuses on the fundamental issues of DNA repair and how they relate to cancer initiation, progression, and therapy responses.

Key words
DNA repair, DNA replication

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Evolution and Reproductive Ecology of Oenothera (Onagraceae)