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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.

Key words
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

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

Research summary
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

Key words
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

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo

Thesis Title: Dissecting tau isoform control and modeling tauopathies in directly-reprogrammed neurons

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Genetics and virulence of the pathogenetic streptococci

Key words
bacteriology, gene expression, inflammation, microbial pathogenesis, toxin

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Daniel C. Link

Thesis Title: The Role of Cytokine Induces Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilization in the Process of Ischemic Vasculogenesis

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Beverley

Thesis Title: UDP-galactose transporters in Leishmania major

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Jean E. Schaffer

Thesis Title: Lysosomal RNASET2 is required for metabolic stress-mediated ROS generation and cell death