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Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Lee Ratner

Thesis Title: The Role of Viral Protein U (Vpu) in HIV-1 Particle Assembly

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: Case Western Reserve University, 2025

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan M. Green

Thesis Title: B and T Lymphocyte Attenuator and the Termination of Allergic Airway Inflammation

Program: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Graduation Year: 1984

Thesis Advisor: Alan R. Templeton

Thesis Title: "Mitochondrial DNA Evolution and Phylogeny in the Planitibia Subgroup of Hawaiian Drosophila"

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Dr. DeSelm clinically focuses on treating lymphoma, and is actively developing novel CAR T cell approaches to treating solid tumors, including lymphoma, pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma.

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Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Eric E. Green

Thesis Title: Comparative Mapping and Sequencing of Human Chromosome 7 and Mouse Chromosome 5

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Kristen L. Kroll, PhD

Undergraduate university: Missouri Southern State University, 2021

Program: Cell Biology & Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Robert W. Mercer

Thesis Title: Expression, Targeting and Assembly of the Rodent Na,K-ATPase

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: Understanding strain-level dynamics in gut commensal-pathogen-host interactions

Program: Cancer Biology

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Abby M. Green

Thesis Title: APOBEC3A drives ovarian cancer metastasis by altering epithelial-mesenchymal transition