People

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

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Antibiotic Resistance at Sequence, Population, and Global Scales

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Thomas A. Woolsey

Thesis Title: "The Development of Intracortical Connections in Rodent Barrel Cortex: Roles for Activity and Neurotrophins"

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Chad M Sylvester, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Notre Dame, 2024

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Christina L. Stallings, PhD

Undergraduate university: Rockhurst University, 2022

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Disrupted Gut Microbiota Development and Childhood Undernutrition

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Marco Colonna

Thesis Title: Characterization of Mouse Interferon Producing Cell Specific Receptors Siglec-H and BST2

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Marcus E. Raichle

Thesis Title: Brain Blood Flow and Metabolism: Variable Relationships in Altered Metabolic States

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Interdisciplinary questions surrounding bacterial small molecule production

Key words
Streptomyces, biosynthesis, genome mining, antibiotics, regulation & genetics