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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

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi

Thesis Title: Redox Homeostasis in Cyanobacteria

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Meredith E. Jackrel, PhD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2020

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Miller

Thesis Title: Transcription factor-mediated epigenetic regulation in the healthy brain and neurological disease

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Leonidas N. Carayannopoulos

Thesis Title: Immune receptor targeting by orthopoxvirus MHC class I-like protein

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Obi L. Griffith

Thesis Title: Cancer genomics approaches elucidate tumor mutational and microenvironmental landscapes and dynamics