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Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Philip D. Stahl

Thesis Title: "Acid Phosphatase-A Marker for the Alternate Pathway"

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of the South Pacific Alpine Plant Oreomyrrhis: Insights into Global Alpine Biogeography

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: David W. Piston

Thesis Title: "RhoA Mediated Juxtacrine Regulation of Glucagon Secretion"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Bradley L. Schlaggar

Thesis Title: Neuroimaging Studies of Typical and Atypical Development

Program: Integrative and Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Thomas T. Braciale

Thesis Title: Regulation of T Lymphocyte Clones

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Emory University, 2022

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Christine E. Edwards, PhD

Undergraduate university: Ball State University, 2024

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Megan A. Cooper

Thesis Title: IL-15 and IFN- regulation in murine NK cells

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology

Research summary
Tryptophan metabolism and probiotic bacteria as modifiers of intestinal cancer and inflammation

Key words
tryptophan metabolism, intestinal inflammation, colitis associated cancer, colon cancer, mucositis, tryptophan, crohn, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, radiation enteritis

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: David M. Holtzman

Thesis Title: Amyloid-beta metabolism in the brain interstitial fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease