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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Wojciech A. Swat

Thesis Title: ITAM- Dependent Regulation of MHC Class II Antigen Presentation and CD4+ T cell Priming

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD

Undergraduate university: Georgia State University, 2018

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Function and modulation of transmitter-gated ion channels

Key words
GABA, ion channel, neurophysiology, nicotinic receptor, pharmacology, structure-function relations

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2016

Thesis Advisor: Daniel Kerschensteiner

Thesis Title: Circuit Mechanisms of Spontaneous and Light Evoked Activity in the Retina

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Ali H. Ellebedy

Thesis Title: Defining B cell Responses to Emerging Viral Pathogens

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Understanding the endogenous opioid systems to defeat addiction, ameliorate affective disorders, and relieve chronic pain.

Key words

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: Role of GRA7 in the virulence of Toxoplasma gondii

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research summary
Ecology and conservation of rare plants

Key words
plant conservation; reintroduction biology; plant population dynamics; rare plant ecology; restoration ecology; seed and seedling ecology; ex situ conservation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: David A. Leib

Thesis Title: Multiple Functions of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Encoded Protein ICP34.5 Combat the Host Anti-viral Response

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: David G. DeNardo, PhD

Undergraduate university: Michigan State University, 2023