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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 affiliation
General

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