People

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: C. Robert R. Cloninger

Thesis Title: "Genetic Linkage Mapping and Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms of the Human Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Genes" Short: RFLP Linkage Disequilibrium Study

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Natalie M. Niemi, PhD

Undergraduate university: Florida State University, 2020

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow

Thesis Title: Type I Interferon Regulation of Chikungunya Virus Pathogenesis

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "Depolarization-activated K+ Currents in the Functioning of Callosal-projecting Visual Cortical Neurons"

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Roy R. Curtiss

Thesis Title: Motility and Adherence as Salmonella typhimurium Virulence Factors: The Pathogenesis of fla, mot, and fim Mutants in Murine Typhoid Fever.

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