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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Polina Lishko, PhD

Undergraduate university: Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2018

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Timothy E. Holy

Thesis Title: Sulfated Steroids as Natural Ligands of Mouse Pheromone-Sensing Neurons

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Tuan-Hua D. Ho

Thesis Title: "Hormonal Control of Gene Expression in Barley Aleurone Layers"

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Molecular genetic analysis of synaptic development and function

Key words
synapse biology, genetics, Zebrafish, C. elegans, exocytosis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: James M. Cheverud

Thesis Title: The Genetic Architecture and Developmental Bases for Long Bone Length Quantitative Trait Loci in Mice.

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Neurobiology at the intersections of stress, sleep, metaboslim, and sedation

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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Jordan G. McCall

Thesis Title: The painful problem: Improving preclinical pain assessment to probe locus coeruleus noradrenergic adaptations during chronic pain

Program: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: "The Relationship Between Eukaryotic Signal Peptide Structure and Function"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: David M. Holtzman, MD

Undergraduate university: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2023