People

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

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

Key words
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

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder

Thesis Title: The Role of Palmitoylation in Membrane Trafficking of the t-SNAREs, SNAP-25 and Syntaxin 11

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Alwyn A. Gentry

Thesis Title: "A Systematic and Eco-Evolutionary Study of the Monimiaceae in the Malagasy Region"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: The Diversity of Quantitative Trait Loci in Yeast Sporulation Efficiency

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Thomas Patrick Burris

Thesis Title: A Mechanistic Study of ERRa/g Agonists for the Teatment of Metabolic Dysfunction and Heart Failure

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
I study how species adapt to their environment.

Key words
ecology, evolution, adaptation, lizard, reptile

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Karen L. O`Malley

Thesis Title: "Mechanisms Underlying Dopaminergic Cell Death in an In Vitro Model of Parkinson's Disease"