People

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Examination of modern and ancient biogeochemical cycles; the coevolution of life and the Earth.

Key words
Organic & isotope geochemistry, geobiology, microbiology

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Nathan A. Baker

Thesis Title: Computational and Experimental Investigation of Allosteric Communication in the Transcriptional Regulator NikR

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Gabriel G. Waksman

Thesis Title: "Thermodynamic Investigation of Src SH2 Domain Recognition"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: p19ARF and Nucleophosmin: Opposing Nucleolar Regulators of Growth and
Proliferation

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Stephen Oh, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2018

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Daniel S. Ory

Thesis Title: The Box C/D SnoRNA U60 Regulates Intracellular Cholesterol Trafficking

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Tuan-Hua D. Ho

Thesis Title: Examining the Function of HVA22, a Stress Induced Gene with Homologs in Diverse Eukaryotic Organisms

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Oscar Marcos Harari

Thesis Title: Employing single-nucleus RNA-seq to uncover genetic factors of Alzheimer disease

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Petra Anne Levin, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southeast Missouri State University, 2020

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Studies of cognitive (executive) control and prefrontal cortex function using cognitive neuroscience methods (fMRI, computational, behavioral, clinical)

Key words
aging, attention, behavior, fMRI, prefrontal cortex, systems neuroscience