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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

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Mark E. Warchol

Thesis Title: A Signaling Pathway Mediating Aminogycoside-Induced Sensory Hair Cell Death

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Baranski

Thesis Title: Structure-Function Analysis of the Intracellular Surface of the Human C5a Receptor

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: James Umen

Thesis Title: Deciphering the origins of cell-type differentiation using the simple multicellular green alga Volvox carteri