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Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Luis L. Glaser

Thesis Title: "Regulation of Muscle Gene Expression by Fibro- blast Growth Factors"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh

Thesis Title: The Role of TCR Specificity in the Regulation of the Immune Response to Self and Commensal Antigens

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Gaya K. Amarasinghe, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Georgia-Athens, 2018

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: David A. Hunstad

Thesis Title: The Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Effector YbcL Modulates the Innate Immune Response in the Urinary Tract

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Identifying and characterizing Arabidopsis jasmonate signaling components manipulated by Pseudomonas syringae DC3000

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama

Thesis Title: Viral MHCI inhibition evades tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cell (TRM) responses, but not local antigen-driven TRM formation

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Abby M. Green, MD

Undergraduate university: Clemson University, 2023

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Identify signaling pathways that mediate cardiac tissue repair/regeneration and heart failure pathogenesis.

Key words
heart failure, heart development, macrophages, innate immunity

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Harrison W. Gabel, PhD

Undergraduate university: Grinnell College, 2015