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Research summary
Applying biomechanics and mechanobiology (the interaction and response of cells and tissue to mechanical forces) to diagnose, study, and treat various forms of cardiovascular disease.

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Possible cure for MS: intravenous access by myelin-binding aptamer; PCR at one temp; RT-enabled Taq pol.

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DNA, aptamers, technology development, brain therapy

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Characterization of donor strand exchange during pilus biogenesis

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Scott J. Hultgren, PhD

Undergraduate university: Brandeis University, 2023

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Kodi S. Ravichandran

Thesis Title: Phosphatidylserine as a key signaling moiety during adipocyte differentiation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "The Molecular Correlate of the Transient Outward Current, Ito, in the Mammalian Heart"

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1981

Thesis Advisor: William A. Frazier

Thesis Title: "Carbohydrate and Lipid Receptors for an Endogenous Lectin of D. Discoideum"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Paul M. Allen

Thesis Title: Homeostatic T Cell Receptor Interactions with Self-Peptide Tune CD4+ T Cell Function

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Barak A. Cohen, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Miami, 2021

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: J. Mark Petrash

Thesis Title: Small Heat Shock Protein Interactions within the Lens of the Eye