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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Wayne M. Yokoyama

Thesis Title: MHC Class I-Dependent Acquisition and Maintenance of Natural Killer Cell Function

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey P. Henderson

Thesis Title: The functional consequences and therapeutic potential of iron uptake-associated systems in Escherichia coli

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2019

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Barak A. Cohen

Thesis Title: Integration of local and regional regulatory information in the human genome

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: David Rosen, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Indiana University-Bloomington, 2024

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Characterizing and dissecting the molecular mechanisms of opioid receptor signaling

Key words
GPCRs, Analgesics, Side effects, opioid receptors, opioids, opioid alternatives

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Garland R. Marshall

Thesis Title: Protein-Protein Recognition: Structure, Evolution, and Drug Design

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Michael B. Major

Thesis Title: Disrupting NRF2-Driven Cancer Biology through One-Carbon Metabolism Inhibition

Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2009

Thesis Advisor: Rohit V. Pappu

Thesis Title: Nonidealities of Strong 1:1 Electrolytes and the Mechanism of Counterion Specificity on a RNA Kissing-Loop Complex

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Peking University, 2020