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Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Adam T. Eggebrecht, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2024

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Arpita Bose

Thesis Title: Sustainable plastics from plastic metabolisms: leveraging metabolically versatile purple non-sulfur bacteria for polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis

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Research summary
Use hyperpolarized helium-3 and xenon-129 diffusion MRI to characterize lung microstructure

Key words
helium-3, NMR, MRI, hyperpolarized, gas MRI, lungs, emphysema, COPD

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Ben Mansfeld, PhD

Undergraduate university: Ball State University, 2023

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Andreas H. Burkhalter

Thesis Title: "The Structure and Development of Connections Between Visual Areas of the Cerebral Cortex of the Rat"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2018

Thesis Advisor: Deborah J. Lenschow

Thesis Title: Host Determinants of Protection and Pathogenesis During Chikungunya Virus Infection

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Brian T. Edelson

Thesis Title: Complex regulation of T cell responses by the ZFP36 family of RNA-binding proteins

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Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Christopher Maher

Thesis Title: Discovery and Functional Characterization of Proteins Encoded by Annotated Long Noncoding RNAs.

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Current advisor: Timothy M. Miller, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2021