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Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Microbial metabolisms and their influence on biogeochemical cycling

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

Research summary
Genomics and Cell Signaling in Breast Cancer

Key words
cancer, genomics, organoids, 3D culture, receptor tyrosine kinase, signal transduction, next-generation sequencing, targeted therapy of cancer

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Carolyn J. Anderson

Thesis Title: Copper-64-Labeled Tetraazamacrocyclic Complexes for Radiopharmaceuticals: Metabolism, Characterization, and Mechanisms of Metal Dissociation

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Harrison W. Gabel, PhD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2019

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Kelle H. Moley

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial damage accumulation in oocytes - a potential link between maternal obesity and increased cardiometabolic disease risk in offspring.

Program: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Graduation Year: 1978

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Systematics and Evolution of Circaea (Onagraceae)

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Nicole Gilbert, PhD

Undergraduate university: Austin College, 2024

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Peter (P. Mick) M. Richardson

Thesis Title: Changes on Altitudinal and Latitudinal Gradients in Neotropical Montane Forests

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Louis J. Muglia

Thesis Title: The Role of Forebrain Glucocorticoid Receptors in Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and the Pathogenesis of Depression

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Paul P. Berry

Thesis Title: Phylogenetic Systematics of Cunoniaceae (oxalidales), with an Emphasis on Species-groups and Inflorescence Evolution in Weinmannia and Related Genera