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Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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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

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

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Cell Motility and Cancer Metastasis

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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

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

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The Lopez Lab studies how viruses interact with the body and how defective viruses influence the development of diseases in humans

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virus, respiratory syncytial virus, Sendai virus, innate immunity, antiviral immunity

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Mario F. Feldman

Thesis Title: Regulation, architecture, and function of the type VI secretion system of Acinetobacter baumanii

Program: Integrative and Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1985

Thesis Advisor: Judith J. Kapp

Thesis Title: "Regulatory Interaction Between L-Glutamic Acid L-Alanine L-Tyrosine (GAT) Specific Suppressor Factors and Burine T-Cell Subpopulations"

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Adam Kepecs, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2023