People

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

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Christina L. Stallings

Thesis Title: Investigating the role of DciA during the cell cycle of Mycobacterium

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Allan Larson

Thesis Title: Biogeography of the North American southwest sand lizards