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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

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: C. Charles Gu

Thesis Title: Genetic Architecture of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Naomi Dirckx, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2024

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: How alphaviruses enter cells: a tale of two receptors

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: Columbia University, 2018

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Ocular cell biology

Key words
ophthalmology, cataract, glaucoma, myopia, microfibrils, imaging, stem cells, Marfan syndrome, fibrillin, modeling, AFM

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Dabeeru "DC" Rao

Thesis Title: SNP Interactions in the Genetic Architecture of Blood Pressure