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Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: Douglas E. Berg

Thesis Title: "Tn5 Insertion Specificity and Plasmid Supercoiling"

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Role of lipid metabolism in obesity, diabetes and other metabolic diseases

Key words
Adipose tissue, brown fat, diabetes, obesity, lipid metabolism, peroxisomes, mitochondria

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: Biophysically-informed Models of Heterogeneity in Transcription Factor Activity

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: The Role of Apoptosis in y-herpesvirus 68 infection

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Mechanisms of DNA helicases/translocases and SSB proteins

Key words
DNA recombination, DNA replication, fluorescence, molecular motors, single molecules, thermodynamics

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Genetic and Physiological Variation in Cultivated and Wild Rice: Domestication, Phylogeography, and Aluminum Stress Resistance

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Aaron DiAntonio

Thesis Title: Glial K+ buffering and seizure susceptibility

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Cell Motility and Cancer Metastasis

Key words
cell motility, cancer metastasis, cell adhesion, signal transduction

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Carl DeSelm, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Loyola University-Chicago, 2022

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Emory University, 2021