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Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Barbara N. Kunkel

Thesis Title: Investigating Activities of the Pseudomonas Syringae Type III Effector AVRRPT2 in Promoting Disease in Arabidopsis Thaliana.

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Mark B. Willard

Thesis Title: "Localization of Fodrin in the Membrane AssociatedCytoskeleton and Characterization of Fodrin's Interactions with Putative Fodrin-Binding Proteins"

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Dennis D. Loh

Thesis Title: Analysis of the Transcriptional Regulation of a Murine T-cell Receptor V alpha Promoter. Short: Analysis of a TCR Valpha Promoter

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Azad Bonni

Thesis Title: A Mouse Model of Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome reveals a potential link with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Program: Developmental Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Raphael Kopan

Thesis Title: The Role of Notch1 and Notch2 in Mammalian Kidney and Cardiovascular Development.

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
I am interested in the structure and function of neuronal ligand-gated ion channels, and the mechanism of channel modulation by endogenous lipids or exogenous drugs such as general anesthetics.

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Program: Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Mechanisms of Duplex DNA Unwinding by Escherichia coli Rep helicase and a Rep 2B Mutant

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Washington, 2024

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Edinburgh, 2022

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Zhongsheng You

Thesis Title: Nonsense Mediated RNA Decay Promotes Survival of Cells with Defective Splicing