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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Emil R. Unanue

Thesis Title: Mechanism and Immunological Consequences of Listeria monocytogenes induced apoptosis

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: HIV-1 Tropism for T-Lymphoid Cell Lines: Role of Distinct Envelope Determinants

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
Focus on the biogenesis, functions, and evolutionof small RNA-directed silencing pathways in multicellular eukaryotes

Key words
genomics, functional genomics, biogenesis, systems biology, silencing pathways, plant biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, RNA pathways

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Case Western Reserve University, 2023

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Heather A. Lawson

Thesis Title: The Good, The Brown, and The Healthy: Understanding Non-Thermogenic Brown Adipose Function in Obese Mice

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Network plasticity as it pertains to neurorehabilitation, particularly in recovery from stroke

Key words
stroke, resting state connectivity, brain

Program: Chemical Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan D. Gitlin

Thesis Title: Structure and function of the copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Daniel D. Hartl

Thesis Title: Analysis of Functional and Genomic Factors that Influence Evolution of the Opsin Gene Family in Drosophila

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Steven X.F. Zheng

Thesis Title: Regulation of the GATA-Type Transcription Factor Gln3p by the Target of Rapamycin Protein (TOR)

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Tuan-Hua D. Ho

Thesis Title: Abscisic Acid Regulated Gene Expression in Barley: Transcription Factors Interacting with ABA-Responsive Promoters