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Neurosciences

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Identify neural mechanisms that are associated with motor dysfunction following neurological injury

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

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Studies microfluidics, micro-electromechanical systems and associated transport phenomena

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Program: Bioorganic Chemistry

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: George W. Gokel

Thesis Title: Synthetic Organic Model Systems to Probe Biochemical Interactions: Cation-pi and Aromatic-Oxygen Interactions

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General

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Cell-matrix interactions, extracellular matrix and development, vascular development and disease

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extracellular matrix, vascular biology, development, physiology, proteomics

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Joan E. Strassmann

Thesis Title: Cooperation and Conflict in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and its Paraburkholderia endosymbionts

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Sheila A. Stewart, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Notre Dame, 2021

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: David A. Harris

Thesis Title: Aggregation and Localization of a Disease-Associated Mutant Prion Protein

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon

Thesis Title: Characterization of Cytoplasmic and Extracelluar Processes in Streptococcus pyogenes for Cytolysin-Mediated Translocation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Steven J. Mennerick

Thesis Title: Action Potential Initiation and Propagation in Unmyelinated Hippocampal Pyramidal Cell Axons