People

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Interaction of Episodic Memory and Decision-Making Using fMRI and behavioral methods

Key words

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Randall J. Bateman

Thesis Title: The Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein in the Central Nervous System of Humans and Rhesus Macaques

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Laurence David Sibley

Thesis Title: Actin in Toxoplasma gondii: An essential component for motility and host cell invasion.

Program: Molecular Biology

Graduation Year: 1990

Thesis Advisor: Douglas E. Berg

Thesis Title: "Activity and Regulation of TS50 Ends"

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Jonathan M. Green

Thesis Title: In vivo Mutational Analysis of CD28

Program: Plant Biology

Graduation Year: 1996

Thesis Advisor: Craig S. Pikaard

Thesis Title: Minimal Sequence Requirements for rRNA Gene Promoter Function in Arabidopsis thaliana

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2024

Thesis Advisor: Tammie Benzinger

Thesis Title: Evaluating Pathological Tau Spread in Early Alzheimer Disease: Developing a Metric for Tau Positron Emission Tomography Quantifying Tau Spatial Spread

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Biology and pathogenesis of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Key words
biochemistry, biosynthetic pathways, cell biology, eukaryotic pathogen, gene regulation, genomic variants, glycobiology, host-pathogen interactions, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenic fungi, sterol transport, yeast

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Michele LeRoux, PhD

Undergraduate university: Macalester College, 2021

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Ross L. Cagan

Thesis Title: "Atonal, Rough, and the Resolution of Proneural Clusters in the Developing Drosophila Retina"