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

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

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

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Barbara A. Schaal

Thesis Title: "Phylogenetics and Morphological Evolution of Dicnemonaceae. Phylogenetics and Evolution of Hylocomiaceae."

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Goodfellow

Thesis Title: Determining the roles that DICER1 and noncoding RNAs play in endometrial cancer tumorigenesis.

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Scott A. Handley, PhD

Undergraduate university: Universidad de los Andes, 2020

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin

Thesis Title: A Molecular Rheostat Coupling Cell Size to Nutrient Availability

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
The interface between systems and control engineering, neuroscience and neural medicine

Key words
Control of neural dynamics; Biophysical modeling of multiscale brain networks;

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Ziao Fu, PhD

Undergraduate university: Portland State University, 2023

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Tony Tsai, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Kaohsiung Medical College, 2017

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2002

Thesis Advisor: Andrew A. Chan

Thesis Title: Regulation of B Cell Activation through Tyrosine Phosphorylation of BLNK

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: Antiviral programs in the brain