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Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Jan Salick

Thesis Title: Ecological and Evolutionary Impacts of Harvesting the Himalayan Snow Lotus

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: Ecological Genetics of the Bobbed Syndrome in Drosophila hydei Short: Ecological genetics of Drosophila

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Virginia L. Miller

Thesis Title: Characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence determinants using an intranasal mouse model

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Megan T. Baldridge

Thesis Title: Single-cell analysis of the human intestinal microbiota by flow cytometry

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