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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore

Thesis Title: Determining the role of DDR2 in acquired chemo-resistance in ovarian cancer

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Mechanism of Activation of UvrD Helicase by a Processivity Factor MutL

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Mario F. Feldman, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Santa Barbara, 2022

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Eric A. Galburt, PhD

Undergraduate university: Amherst College, 2023

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Regulation of lung, skeletal, and cardiovascular development, injury response, and regeneration by Fibroblast Growth Factors

Key words
cell signaling; development; fibroblast growth factors; mouse models; stem cells, regeneration; pulmonary hypertension; alveologenesis; endocrine signaling

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Havana University, 2018

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Ursula W. Goodenough

Thesis Title: Molecular Characterization of the Transposable Element Gulliver in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Immunology

Research summary

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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Beau M. Ances

Thesis Title: HIV Neurodegeneration in the Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy (HAART) Era

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: C. Chris Weihl, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Colorado-Denver, 2022