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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: Elucidation of Nucleophosmin Translational Regulation.

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Jonathan Kipnis, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Chicago, 2024

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: The Molecular Basis of Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of West Nile Virus

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: A Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Oryza L. Based on Chloroplast DNA Sequences

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Nathan A. Baker

Thesis Title: An Examination of Oxysterol Effects on Membrane Bilayers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Nobuo Suga

Thesis Title: "Processing of Biosonar Information by the Auditory Thalamus of the Mustached Bat Pteronotus Parnellii"

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Plant evolutionary biology, molecular population genetics, genetics of adaptation, phylogeography

Key words
evolution, genetics, plant biology, population genetics, molecular evolution

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: "Evolution in a Recently Arisen Species Complex: Phylogeography of Manihot esculenta Crantz (Euphorbiaceae)"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Scott J. Hultgren, PhD

Undergraduate university: Central Michigan University, 2014

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Nancy L. Baenziger

Thesis Title: Role of MapK Cascades p38, JNK and ERK in Modulating Neurite Outgrowth in a Human Neuronal Cooling Stress Model