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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Pekosz

Thesis Title: The Influenza A Virus M2 Protein is a Critical Mediator of Both Virus Assembly and Disassembly”

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo

Thesis Title: Defining Neuronal Identity Using MicroRNA-Mediated Neuronal Reprogramming

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We investigate how host-microbe interactions at epithelial barrier sites impact skin diseases.

Key words
acne, microbiome, cryogenic electron microscopy, cryoEM, crystallography, Cutibacterium acnes, melanoma, immune checkpoint inhibitor, ICI

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Philip R. Williams

Thesis Title: Cytoplasmic and Mitochondrial Calcium Influences Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival to Axon Injury

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Silvia Jansen, PhD

Undergraduate university: Westminster College, 2019

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Oltz

Thesis Title: An Intronic Regulatory Element Limits Tcf7 Expression in Natural Killer Cells

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Tammie Benzinger

Thesis Title: Understanding the Influence of Individual-level Sources of Pathology Variation on Neuroimaging Measures of Alzheimer Disease

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Herbert W. Virgin

Thesis Title: Functions for Murine Norovirus Protein NS1/2 in Mice and Cells

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Sean R. Eddy

Thesis Title: Screens for non-coding RNA and strange life

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Human behavioral and fMRI studies of memory

Key words
memory, learning, cognition, cognitive, fMRI, imaging, behavior