People

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Tao Che

Thesis Title: Exploring the Structure, Dynamics, and Pharmacology of Opioid Receptors

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Karen L. O`Malley

Thesis Title: The role of PUMA in Toxin Models of Parkinson’s Disease

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Ream Al-Hasani, PhD

Undergraduate university: McGill University, 2024

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder

Thesis Title: "Regulation and Membrane Targeting of RGS4, a Neuronal Regulator of G Protein Signaling"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of brain region-specific amyloid-β deposition.

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Yao Chen, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Colorado-Boulder, 2022

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Tim B. Schedl

Thesis Title: "Regulation of the Mitotic/Meiotic Cell Fate Decision in Caenorhabditis elegans"

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: "The Systematics and Evolution of Fuchsia Sect. Fuchsia (Onagraceae)"

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Our research is focused on soft tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology

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Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1985

Thesis Advisor: Douglas F. Covey

Thesis Title: "Mechanistic Studies of Aromatase"