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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: The HTLV-1 Envelope Protein: Structure and Expression.

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Pepperdine University-Malibu, 2020

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General

Research summary
High-throughput drug discovery using C. elegans models of protein aggregation disorders

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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama

Thesis Title: Natural Killer Cell Recruitment and Activation Following Orthopoxviral Infection

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Systems and Synthetic Biology of photosynthetic organisms

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Bioenergy, membrane proteins, photosynthesis, redox processes, systems biology, synthetic biology

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Dr. Palanca has NIH-funded investigations on acute confusion after cardiac surgery and leveraging the anesthetic propofol to modulate sleep to treat depression and cognitive impairment.

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Anesthesia, delirium, sleep, surgery, electroencephalography, imaging, fMRI, consciousness, cognition, encephalopathy, depression, antidepressant

Program affiliation
Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Mechanisms of inflammation in immune-privileged organs

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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Michael Meers, PhD

Undergraduate university: California State University-Northridge, 2019

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Johnson

Thesis Title: "The Effect of Guanacline Treatment of Peripheral Sympathetic Neurons"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Munson

Thesis Title: Characterization of the Hemolysin of Haemophilus ducreyi