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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

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Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Susan K. Dutcher

Thesis Title: An Investigation of Second-Site Non-Complementation among Motile Cilia Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan B Losos

Thesis Title: Natural History of Monitor Lizards (Family Varanidae) with Evidence from Phylogeny, Ecology, Life History, Life History and Morphology

Program: Cellular Developmental & Systemic Biology

Graduation Year: 1979

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J. Williamson

Thesis Title: "New Evidence that Podocytes Limit Glomerular Filtration of Macromolecules"

Program: Neurosciences

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Undergraduate university: Brown University, 2024

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Eduardo A. Groisman

Thesis Title: Evolution of a Transcriptional Regulatory System Controlling Virulence I Enteric Bacteria

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Brian Laidlaw, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo, 2015

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Neurosciences

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Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Pathobiology of liver disease from accumulation and proteotoxicity of misfolded proteins in α1-antitrypsin deficiency; role of autophagy in biology and treatment of disorders caused by misfolded proteins

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α1-antitrypsin deficiency, protein secretion, protein degradation, autophagy, proteostasis, autophagy enhancer drugs