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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Shining a Multiomic Lens on Germline Variants: Patterns and Functional Implications Across Cancer Types

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Daniel D. Hartl

Thesis Title: "Evolution of the Transposable Element Mariner in Drosophila Species" Short title:

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Phyllis I. Hanson

Thesis Title: How alpha-SNAP enables SNARE complex disassembly

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Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Christine E. Edwards

Thesis Title: Island hopping in the tropics: The genetics of conservation, speciation, and biogeography in the iconic flowering plant group Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: J. William Harbour

Thesis Title: The Role of Melanocyte Differentiation in Uveal Melanoma Progression

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey J. Bednarski II

Thesis Title: Function of Deubiquitinase MYSM1 in Attenuation of DNA Damage Responses

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Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Development of liquid biopsy approaches for brain tumors

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liquid biopsy, cfDNA, genetics, epigenetics

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Cristina Strong

Thesis Title: Elucidating Enhancer Function in Epidermal Development and Filaggrin Loss-of-Function Variants in African American Atopic Dermatitis

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: "Evolution within the Pinus montezumae Commplex of Mexico: Population Subdivision, Hybridization, and Taxonomy" Short: Evolution in Montezumae Complex