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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Charles F. Zorumski

Thesis Title: Excitatory synaptic transmission in microcultures of hippocampal cells.

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Physiology of glutamate and GABA neurotransmission in the CNS

Key words
neurobiology, synapse biology, receptor, ion channel, glutamate transmission, GABA transmission

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Matthew J. Walter

Thesis Title: The Role of Subclonal Gene Mutations During Progression from Myelodysplastic Syndrome to Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Molecular and cell biology of ion pumps and transporters in plasma membrane; cell polarity

Key words
cell membrane, development, Na K-ATPase, excitable tissue, cell volume

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Kathryn G. Miller

Thesis Title: 95F Unconventional Myosin-Mediated Transport and Function in the Early Drosophila Embryo

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Understanding how changes at the molecular and cellular level in skeletal muscle affect muscle structure and function

Key words

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: David G. DeNardo

Thesis Title: Tumors Interrupt IRF8-mediated Dendritic Cell Development to Overcome Immune Surveillance

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Jan A. Nolta

Thesis Title: Characterization of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Therapeutic Application to a Xenotransplant Model of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VII

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Ben Garcia, PhD

Undergraduate university: Brooklyn College, 2020