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Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Phyllis I. Hanson

Thesis Title: Targeting and Activity of the AAA+ ATPase torsinA within the endoplasmic reticulum

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2017

Thesis Advisor: Erika Pearce

Thesis Title: Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Steven E. Petersen

Thesis Title: Functional Anatomic Studies of Memory Retrieval

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Sheng-Kwei Song

Thesis Title: Detecting Axonal Damage in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Alex S. Evers

Thesis Title: Mapping Sterol Binding Sites in Integral Membrane Proteins using Mass Spectrometry

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Lawrence B. Salkoff

Thesis Title: Novel Structural and Physiological Functions of High Conductance K+ Channels of the Slo Family

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

Thesis Title: The essential roles of the chromatin factor Gon4l in heart development.

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Developing algorithms and architectures for large-scale biosequence comparison, genome annotation, and metagenomics

Key words
annotation, bioinformatics, computational biology, genome analysis, metagenomics

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Megan T. Baldridge, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 2022

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Andrew L. Kau, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Los Angeles, 2020