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Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: William A. Frazier

Thesis Title: BNIP3 Phosphorylation is a Switch that Regulates Autophagy and Cell Death

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Focused on the analysis of high dimensional omics (epigenetics and microbiome) data, subgroup identification, medical cost data, and joint models of multi-outcome data

Key words
Biostatistics, data science, machine learning, precision medicine, omics study, biomedical data mining

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Dalian Medical University, 2019

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Jacques U. Baenziger

Thesis Title: "Tyrosine Sulfation in A431 Cells"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Thorold Theunissen, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Anne M. Bowcock

Thesis Title: Identification of Genetic/Epigenetic Risk Factors for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
The biology of itch

Key words
somatosensation, itch, primary sensory neurons, G protein-coupled receptors

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: David D. States

Thesis Title: Promoter Identification and Analysis in the Human Genome

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Single-nuclei resolution kidney profiling in physiological and disease settings

Program affiliation
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Understanding how host genetics and environmental factors interact to shape gut metabolism leading to inflammation

Key words