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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: 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

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Cancer stem cells, oncolytic viruses, and functional genomics of cancer

Key words
Cancer stem cells, oncolytic viruses, and functional genomics of cancer