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Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy

Thesis Title: "Transcriptional Regulation of the Soybean Beta- Conglycinin Genes"

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Helen H. Donis-Keller

Thesis Title: Molecular Genetics of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 (MEN2)

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Defining molecular mechanisms at the host-pathogen interface

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Neurosciences

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Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Cynthia Rogers, MD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2015

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

Research summary
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"

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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