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Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Daniel D. Hartl

Thesis Title: "The Evolution of Bacterial Genes and Insertion Sequences"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Erik S. Musiek

Thesis Title: Role of Glia in Diurnal Rhythms in Neuroinflammation and Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Joseph C. Corbo

Thesis Title: The Cis-Regulatory Architecture of Mammalian Photoreceptors

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Craig S. Pikaard

Thesis Title: Epigenetic Control of Nuceolar Dominance and Ribosomal RNA Gene Dosage Control

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Integration of whole-genome sequence with phenotypic data to understand parent-of-origin genetic effects and gene-by-environment interactions

Key words
Epigenetics, gene regulation, parent-of-origin effects, gene-by-environment interactions, pleiotropy, systems biology, metabolism, evolution

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Amber Stratman, PhD

Undergraduate university: Oregon State University, 2020

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: "Intra- and Interspecific Variation in the Behavioral Responses Given to an Approaching Predator by Anolis Lizards"

Program: Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: "Ribosomal Gene Variation in Clematis fremontii (Ranunculaceae)"

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Hani Zaher, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Notre Dame, 2024

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg

Thesis Title: The unconventional starvation response of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum