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Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: Territoriality and Spatial Structure of the Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris collaris. Spatial, Temporal, and Individual Variation

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Indira U. Mysorekar

Thesis Title: Spatial and Functional Characterization of Microbial Residents in the Human Placenta

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Samuel A. Wickline

Thesis Title: Nanotechnology for Molecular Imaging and Targeted Therapeutics: Mechanisms of Cellular Interaction with Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Highstein

Thesis Title: The Y Group of the Vestibular Nuclei in Visual-Vestibular Interaction and Adaptation of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex, in the Squirrel Monkey

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Santa Clara University, 2020

Program: Integrative and Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Ursula W. Goodenough

Thesis Title: "Contact-Induced Signaling in Gametes of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii"

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Gaya K. Amarasinghe, PhD

Undergraduate university: Northeastern University, 2020

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Our lab employs cutting-edge molecular biology techniques to investigate the genetic, epigenetic, and cellular alterations driving the initiation, progression, and therapeutic resistance of brain tumors.

Key words
brain tumors, systems biology, genetics, neurosurgery, neurooncology

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Autophagy Protein Mediated Goblet Cell Secretion in the Intestinal Epithelium

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Brian Laidlaw, PhD

Undergraduate university: Ohio State University-Columbus, 2021