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Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Chad M Sylvester, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2016

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: James B. Skeath

Thesis Title: Transcriptional regulation of Neuronal Differentiation in the Drosophila Central Nervous System

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy

Thesis Title: Analysis of the Proteolytic Processing and Enzymatic Activities of the Rice Tungro Bacilliform Virus Reverse Transcriptase

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: David Y. Chen, MD,PhD

Undergraduate university: Union College-New York, 2020

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty

Thesis Title: Massively parallel assessment of the functional effects of de novo autism spectrum disorder patient-derived genetic variants in 3’ untranslated regions

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
My research is in clinical research informatics, but I also have strong interest in other areas of clinical informatics, including usability of clinical and consumer-facing systems and mobile health

Key words

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

Thesis Title: Mesothelium-derived factors shape tissue resident macrophages

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

Research summary
Investigating the development of immunological memory in disease states

Key words
B cells, immunological memory, germinal center, virus, allergy

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Zachary Pincus

Thesis Title: Techniques for Spatial Analysis of C. elegans Anatomy and Reporter Expression

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber

Thesis Title: Imaging of Cancer Immunoediting