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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.

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Jason C. Mills

Thesis Title: The role of IFRD1 in the recruitment and function of reserve stem cells in regeneration and cancer

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Craig S. Pikaard

Thesis Title: Chromosomal Influences on Gene Silencing in Nucleolar Dominance

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Blake C. Meyers

Thesis Title: The 3D Genome: Investigating CO2 Driven Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Arabidopsis thaliana

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Immunology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Study of normal versus leukemic blood cell development and immunology

Key words
cancer genomics, leukemia, oncogene

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman

Thesis Title: TREM2 studies reveal juxtaposed roles for reactive microglia in Alzheimer’s disease

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Fumihiko Urano, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2021

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Timothy J. Ley

Thesis Title: Cold Shock Domain Proteins in Hematopoiesis