People

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Cancer Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Understanding the molecular determinants of cellular diversity

Key words
Chromatin, Transcription Factors, Epigenomics, Cell fate, Single-cell

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: Susan Cullen

Thesis Title: Properties of Invariant Chain Relevant to Intracellular Trafficking Patterns and Antigen Presentation Function of Class II Molecules

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama

Thesis Title: Allelic Variation and "Chimerism" of Ly49 Natural Killer Cell Receptors

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: The role of Actin Depolymerizing Factor in regulating actin dynamics in Toxoplasma gondii.

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Andreas H. Burkhalter

Thesis Title: Modularity of Feedback for State-Dependent Guidance of Navigation in Mouse Visual Cortex

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Sheila A. Stewart, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2019

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Robi D. Mitra

Thesis Title: Developments in Proteomics, Trans-Splicing Technology And Endogenous Transcript Manipulation

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Shabaana Abdul Khader

Thesis Title: Title: Evaluating the utility of S100A8/A9 as a non-invasive biomarker

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Stephen L. Johnson

Thesis Title: Analysis of requirements for two zebrafish orthologs of mouse Kit in melanocyte differentiation and isolation of a mutant affecting xanthophore development and pattern formation in adult fins

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall

Thesis Title: Advances in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with applications to studies of macromolecular interactions and folding of RNA hairpins