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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

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: William E. Goldman

Thesis Title: A Potential Role for Calcium in Histoplasma Parasitism

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Alzheimer disease pathophysiology

Key words
amyloid, apolipoprotein E, Alzheimer’s disease, drug treatment, mass spectrometry, protein production and clearance

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Erik D. Herzog

Thesis Title: Maternal-Fetal Circadian Communication during Pregnancy

Program: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Peter M.J. Burgers

Thesis Title: "Biochemistry and Genetics of Yeast DNA Polymerase III and Its Associated Proteins"