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Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Samuel L. Stanley

Thesis Title: The Biomolecular Comparison of Entamoeba histolytica To Less-virulent Strains and Species Reveals Molecular Effectors of Virulence

Program: Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1986

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: "Population Structure and Patterns Speciation in Geomys (Rodentia: Geomydae): An Analysis Using Mitochondrial and Ribosomal DNA"

Program: Cell and Integrative Biology

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey D. Milbrandt

Thesis Title: NGFI-A: Biochemical characterization and structure/function relationship of a novel transcription factor.

Program: Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1987

Thesis Advisor: Daniel D. Hartl

Thesis Title: "Fitness of Beta-Galactosidase Alleles in Escherichia Coli"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Irfan J. Lodhi

Thesis Title: Transcriptional regulation of adipose tissue development

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Bahaa E. Elgendy, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2024

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Roberta Faccio

Thesis Title: The Role of Tmem178 in Regulation of Osteo-Immune Activation and Inflammatory Bone Loss

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1995

Thesis Advisor: Eugene M. Johnson

Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Death by Trophic Factor Deprivation

Program: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: Role of HIV VPR and Envelope Proteins in Viral Infectivity and Cytopathicity.

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Ohio State University-Columbus, 2022