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Neurosciences

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Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Cynthia Rogers, MD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2015

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Bacterial growth and antibiotic susceptibility

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Bacterial, growth size, antibiotics, tolerance, antibiotic resistance, systems biology, cytoskeleton, biochemistry, microbiology, microscopy

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Mark B. Willard

Thesis Title: "Fodrin: Two Axonally Transported Polypeptides Associated with the Submembrane Space of Many Cells"

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: Henry V. Huang

Thesis Title: "Sindbis Virus Cis-Acting Sequences"

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Developing novel optical imaging technologies for studying biomolecular activities at the nanoscale

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super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule spectroscopy, optimal imaging system design, nanoscale sensing

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Helen M. Piwnica-Worms

Thesis Title: Functional interactions between PAR-1b protein kinase and RNF41 E3 ubiquitin ligase

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Paul C. Bridgman

Thesis Title: The Actin Cytoskeleton and Myosin Ia in Nerve Growth Cones: Structural Basis for Growth Cone Motility

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: FXR1 regulates Ras translation to drive oncogenic transformation

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Kristen Kroll

Thesis Title: Stem cell models to study the regulation of human cortical development and its disruption in neurodevelopmental disorders.