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Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Molecular Biology of DNA replication and damage response in yeast and human

Key words
Cell cycle, DNA damage response, DNA replication, Checkpoints, Mutagenesis, DNA repair, yeast

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Tiffany M. Knight

Thesis Title: Effects of the aquatic:terrestrial habitat ratio on an amphibian predator and its prey

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Gary K. Ackers

Thesis Title: Mechanistic Characterization of Human Hemoglobin: Elucidation of Functional Autonomy in Half-Tetramers

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1988

Thesis Advisor: Maynard M. Olson

Thesis Title: "Molecular Genetics of Yeast Chromosomes"

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex

Key words
neurobiology, vision, physiology, development, synapse biology

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
The transmission and epidemiology of multi-drug resistant bacteria

Key words

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Undergraduate university: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Neuroimaging studies of adaptive plasticity in people with sensory deficits

Key words
imaging, cognition, neurobiology

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J. St. Geme, III

Thesis Title: Defining Evolutionary and Functional Relationships, Carbohydrate Modification and Surface Association of the Haemophilus Influenzae HMW-Family of Adhesins

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin

Thesis Title: The C Terminus of FtsZ Regulates FtsZ Assembly Dynamics and Is Required for Bacillus Subtilis Cell Division