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Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1981

Thesis Advisor: Robert R. Miller

Thesis Title: "A Physiological-Morphological Study of Neuronal Pathways in the Rabbit Retina"

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: John J. Merlie

Thesis Title: "Processing and Assembly of Subunits of the Mouse Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Meghan Campbell, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Vermont, 2018

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Tumor cell biology, signal transduction, and drug development

Key words
cancer, signal transduction, molecular pharmacology, autophagy, metabolism, drug development

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Sebla B. Kutluay, PhD

Undergraduate university: Kwame Nkrumah U. of Sci. & Tech., 2013

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Shabaana Abdul Khader

Thesis Title: Roles of type I interferon signaling in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Carlos Ramon Ponce

Thesis Title: A Filter-Based Model of Visual Recognition.

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Arnold A. Strauss

Thesis Title: Ubiquitous Mitochondrial Creatine Kinase Expression in the Mouse Brain

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Human and Statistical Genetics

Research summary
How genetic variation and environmental experience contribute to individual differences in brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

Key words

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Placental and pituitary hormone genes

Key words
biochemistry, carbohydrate, protein structure, signal transduction, intracellular trafficking