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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

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Erik D. Herzog, PhD

Undergraduate university: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2018

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Heather L. True-Krob

Thesis Title: "Structural Elucidation of [RNQ+] prions transmissible infectivity"

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Douglas L. Chalker

Thesis Title: A novel G-quadruplex binding protein determines the boundaries of genome rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Maynard M. Olson

Thesis Title: "Physical Characterization of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Chromosomes by Large DNA Electrophoresis"

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Sensory and Evolutionary Neuroscience

Key words
neural circuits, neurophysiology, sensory systems, behavior, evolution, mathematical modeling