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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy

Thesis Title: The Role of Meis1 in Hematopoietic Development.

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Robert D. Schreiber, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Texas-Austin, 2020

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics of a Disease Resistance Locus in Solanum Pimpinellifolium

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Michael H Tomasson

Thesis Title: Tyrosine Kinase Activity and Stat5 Gene Dosage Mediate TED-PDGFRB-initiated Myeloproliferative Disease in Mice

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Kendall J. Blumer

Thesis Title: Characterization of the role of R7-RGS proteins in mammalian retina and vision

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Ram Dixit

Thesis Title: Developing tools to study the effect of the mechanical environment on plant cell growth and morphogenesis

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Guojun Bu

Thesis Title: Opposing Roles of the LDL Receptor-Related Protein (LRP1) and the LDL Receptor-Related Protein 1B (LRP1B) in beta-Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Trafficking and Processing

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Deanna M. Barch

Thesis Title: Characterizing complex affective processing across age and in relation to social anxiety symptoms.

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Jessica M. Silva-Fisher, PhD

Undergraduate university: Vassar College, 2024

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We use computational and naturalistic methods to study emotional and social neurodevelopment with the larger goal of identifying neurophenotypes of depression and anxiety symptoms and risk.

Key words
depression, anxiety, infancy, social cognition, emotion, neuroimaging, preschool, neurodevelopment