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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer

Thesis Title: G Protein Coupled Receptor Structure and Activation

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

Research summary
My research program aims to understand the neural circuits that underlie vocal communication processing and investigate how these circuits are disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Key words
Auditory System, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Mouse Models, Communication Processing, Development

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Arnold A. Strauss

Thesis Title: "Placental Alkaline Phosphatase Expression in Human Placenta and Tumor Cells"

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Webster University, 2018

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1982

Thesis Advisor: Theodore J. Cicero

Thesis Title: "Plasticity of Response of the Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Puteinizing Hormone Axis to Opiates in the Male Rat"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Indira U. Mysorekar

Thesis Title: Cytokine and Macrophage Responses to Uropathogenic E. coli

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Mechanisms of reproductive cell regeneration and development

Key words
germline, reproduction, stem cells, regeneration, imaging, scRNAseq

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary

Key words

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Jin Zhang, PhD, MPHS

Undergraduate university: Rochester Institute of Technology, 2021

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Roger N. Beachy

Thesis Title: Molecular Analysis of the Tobamovirus Ob and Induction of the N gene-Mediated Hypersensitive Response