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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

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Focusing on the Neuropsychology of Movement Disorders, particularly Parkinson disease, by combining the principles and methods of cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging

Key words

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Our laboratory is interested in the role of platelets and leukocytes in inflammatory diseases which induce changes in hemostasis and thrombosis

Key words
thrombosis, platelets, stroke, neutrophils

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Multi-omic understanding of the evolution of xenobiotic tolerance in bacterial isolates and communities

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
We study the antigen specificity and function of CD8 T cells in the context of neurodegeneration and cancer

Key words
T cells, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, antigen specificity, cancer

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Sheila A. Stewart, PhD

Undergraduate university: Lindenwood University, 2020