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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Jeanne M. Nerbonne

Thesis Title: "Molecular Identities and Functional Roles of Voltage-gated K+ Channels in Mammalian Neurons"

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Grant A. Challen

Thesis Title: Kdm6b is Required for Self-Renewal of Normal and Leukemic Mouse Stem Cells Under Proliferative Stress

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gregory R. Bowman

Thesis Title: Understanding Sequence Determinants of Functional Protein Dynamics Using Biophysical Simulations and Experiments

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
How the environment shapes host-associated microbial communities both within and across species

Key words
Gut microbiome, nonhuman primates, environmental health

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Niraj H. Tolia

Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Plasmodium Red Blood Cell Invasion

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Determination of the Oligomeric Form of Escherichia coli UvrD Helicase Required for Duplex DNA Unwinding

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Jonathan Kipnis, PhD

Undergraduate university: Tbilisi State Medical University, 2018

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder

Thesis Title: Functional Importance of G-protein Thioacylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Beverley

Thesis Title: Leishmania/host cell interactions during the establishment and persistent phases of infection.

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Amynah Pradhan

Thesis Title: Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide and Its Receptor as Novel Therapeutic Targets for Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia