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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Charles Kaufman

Thesis Title: Tank to Bedside: How insights from zebrafish sox10 enhancers inform our understanding of human melanoma drug resistance

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Kathleen B. Hall

Thesis Title: APOBEC-1 Complementation Factor (ACF) Binds and Regulates Multiple RNA's.

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: Effects of microbiota-directed fiber-enriched food prototypes in gnotobiotic mice and humans

Program affiliation
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary
We integrate metabolic, movement, and community ecology to address core and applied ecological and evolutionary questions. Spanning diverse species and habitats, our research links individual physiology to global biodiversity patterns using theory, data, experiments, and field studies. We aim to understand ecological systems, including human impacts, to inform effective management and policy.

Key words
metabolism, movement ecology, community ecology, behavior, species interactions, human-nature interactions, biogeography, global change, computer vision, eco-informatics, complex systems, biodiversity, great river systems, ecological management

​Laura is responsible for Division finances including accounting processing and assessment, cost and procedure analysis, budgeting, reporting and space. Laura also assists in financial and strategic planning and ensures monies are utilized appropriately according to funding regulations and restrictions.​

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: J. William Harbour

Thesis Title: p38 Phosphorylates Rb on Ser567 by a Novel, Cell Cycle-independent Mechanism that triggers Rb-Hdm2 Interaction and Apoptosis.

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2004

Thesis Advisor: Rachel O.L. Wong

Thesis Title: Cellular Regulation and Developmental Function of Retinal Spontaneous Activity

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Christina L. Stallings, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, 2023

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Regulation of Tumor Progression.

Key words
immunotherapy, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, immunology, inflammation, metastasis, storm

Program affiliation
General

Research summary
Our lab uses murine stroke models and stroke patient samples to better understand ischemic stroke pathology.

Key words
Stroke platelet neutrophil neurology translational research