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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Jean E. Schaffer

Thesis Title: Role of the Niemann-Pick Type C1 Protein in Trafficking and Homeostasis of Intracellular Cholesterol

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Origin and Domestication of a Mesoamerican Fruit Tree, Spondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae)

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Jonathan B. Losos, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of North Carolina-Asheville, 2020

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Gautam Dantas, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2021

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: The Assembly Mechanisms of Uropathogenic Esherichia coli Pili and Its Force-Induced Unraveling

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore

Thesis Title: The Role of Ajuba LIM Proteins and Phospholipase Cy-2 in mechanism of Integrin Mediated Cell Adhesion and Mirgration

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Barnes

Thesis Title: "Direct Sequence Analysis of the Chromosomes of Revertant Colonies of Salmonella Typhimurium HisG46 with DNA Oligonucleotides and the Effects of Alter ing the Adjacent Mismatch Repair Signal"

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Joseph M. Jez

Thesis Title: Prodrug Activation in Staphylococci and the Implications for Antimicrobial Development

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth S. Haswell

Thesis Title: Insights Into the Non-Osmoregulatory Function of a Pollen-Specific Mechanosensitive Ion Channel

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: David P. Cistola

Thesis Title: Determinants of Ligand Specificity for Three Intestinal Lipid Binding Proteins.