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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

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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

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Kansas State University, 2019

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Daved H. Fremont, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Chicago, 2024

Program affiliation
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
We study disease-relevant cell and organ signaling pathways in inflammatory bowel disease using molecular and cell biology, multi-omics technologies, genetic murine models, and patient samples.

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inflammatory bowel disease, mucosal immunity, innate lymphoid cells, human intestinal organoids, regenerative medicine, biomarker discovery, cellular stress response, perianal fistulizing Crohn's disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, colon cancer

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Cancer Biology

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Novel genetic, microbial, and lifestyle risk factors for lung and gastrointestinal cancers leveraging large-scale clinical and population-based cohorts with deep genomic and phenotypic data

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Systems and translational cancer epidemiology, microbiome, inflammation and immune-metabolic networks

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
mechanisms and treatments of chronic migraine and post-traumatic headache

Key words
ion channel, neuroimmune interaction, chronic migraine, post-traumatic headache, chronic pain and comorbidity, synaptic transmission, neuronal excitability