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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ting Wang

Thesis Title: Pan-Cancer Universal Targets for Immunotherapy Resulted from Transposable Elements Activation

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI

Undergraduate university: Taiyuan University of Technology

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Ira M. Hall

Thesis Title: Construction of a Human Pangenome Reference to Improve Structural Variation Detection Upload

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi

Thesis Title: Membrane Systems in Cyanobacteria

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: J. William Harbour

Thesis Title: E2F Associated Apoptosis Occurs through a Caspase-8 Dependent Pathway Associated with the Loss of FAK Function

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Megan T. Baldridge, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of South Carolina, 2020

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD

Undergraduate university: Missouri State University, 2024

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Kristen Kroll

Thesis Title: Roles of Neurogenin and Geminin in Vertebrate Neurogensis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Fanxin Long

Thesis Title: The Role of BMP Signaling in Osteoblast Lineage Cells during Embryonic Limb Development and Postnatal Bone Formation

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Understanding the role of inflammation in gastrointestinal cancers

Key words
NF-kB, Toll-like receptors, IRAK4, TAK1, KRAS, ERK, MK2