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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: William E. Goldman

Thesis Title: The characterization of a novel aspect of sulfur metabolism in histoplasma capsulatum

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology

Research summary
We are interested in the neurodevelopmental and environmental factors that affect the risk of brain tumor development and cognitive impairment in children.

Key words
pediatric, glioma, obesity, neurofibromatosis, neurodevelopment

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Sarah C.R. Elgin

Thesis Title: Key Factors Involved in Gene Silencing in the Fourth Chromosome of Drosophila Melanogaster

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Robert W. Gereau

Thesis Title: Parapinopsin: A Photoswitchable Inhibitory GPCR for Two-Photon Optogenetics

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: James J. Krause

Thesis Title: Steroid Hormone Regulation of Substance P in the Anterior Pituitary and Hypothalamus

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Paul C. Bridgman

Thesis Title: The Role of Growth Cone Myosin II and Actin Associated Proteins in the Repulsive Response Induced by the Guidance Factor Semaphorin 3A.

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

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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Thomas T. Braciale

Thesis Title: The antigenic MHC-peptide complex recognized by a human, influenza hemagglutinin-specific T cell: Characterization and intracellular generation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Washington, 2023

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1982

Thesis Advisor: William Outlaw

Thesis Title: "Carbon Metabolism in Vicia Faba Guard Cell Protoplasts"