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Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Computational neuroimaging using big data to study brain organization and mental health

Key words
mental health, fMRI, connectivity, big data, psychiatry, computational models

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Investigation into the Mechanisms and Consequences of Microtubule-Based Symmetry Breaking in Plant

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1985

Thesis Advisor: Rosalind R. Kornfeld

Thesis Title: "Identification and Characterization of an Alpha- Mannosidase in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Rat Liver"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Jeff J. Lichtman

Thesis Title: "Ultrastructural Modifications During Naturally Occurring Synapse Elimination"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Gregory D. Longmore

Thesis Title: Role of SNAIL1 in cardiac fibrosis

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Scott J. Hultgren

Thesis Title: Structure and function of type 1 pilus assembly machinery in uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Jennifer Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: Kansas State University, 2023

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Kinetic Studies on the Mechanisms of DNA Binding and DNA Unwinding of the Escherichia Coli Rep Helicase

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Functional Genomic and Metabolic Studies of how Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Establishes itself in the Distal Gut Microbiota

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
(1) Tourette syndrome neuroimaging; (2) Parkinson disease pharmacological imaging; (3) pharmacological activation neuroimaging

Key words
fMRI, neuroimaging, movement disorders, Tourette syndrome, pharmacology, PET, deep brain stimulation, DBS