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Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan A. Myers

Thesis Title: Environmental change, beta-diversity, and the stability of regional ecosystems

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Yoo

Thesis Title: Identifying the Molecular Fate Logic Underlying Direct Neuronal Reprogramming

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Virginia L. Miller

Thesis Title: RovA, Regulation and Virulence in the Yersinia

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Cellular, Molecular and Epigenetic control of axon regeneration

Key words
axon regeneration, nerve injury, epigenetic, transcription, glia biology, neuroimmune mechanisms, spinal cord injury, optic nerve injury

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1983

Thesis Advisor: Luis L. Glaser

Thesis Title: "Control of Growth and Differentiation in BC3H1 Cells"

Program: Cellular Developmental & Systemic Biology

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Joseph J. Davie

Thesis Title: "Characterization of Surface Proteins of Activated Pymphocytes"

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Eric A. Galburt

Thesis Title: UvrD1 helicase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is activated by multiple unique mechanisms

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh

Thesis Title: CD4 T cell interaction with intestinal microbes under homeostasis and inflammation

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons; Novel self-powered neural recording systems

Key words

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Genetic and epigenetic regulation of developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements of Tetrahymena, control of intercellular patterning

Key words
cellular patterning, cell biology, basal bodies and cilia, chromatin structure, development, DNA, genome rearrangements, RNA interference,