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Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Helen H. Donis-Keller

Thesis Title: Molecular Genetic Studies of Prostate Cancer

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD

Undergraduate university: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2022

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Thorold W Theunissen

Thesis Title: Investigating the Specification and Regulation of the Human Trophoblast Lineage Using Cell Culture Models

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2021

Program: Computational Biology

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Justin C. Fay

Thesis Title: Comparing and Contrasting Cis-Regulatory Sequences to Identify Functional Noncoding Sequence Variation

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2010

Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Shaw

Thesis Title: Use-Dependent Plasticity Regulates Sleep Need in Drosophila Melanogaster

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Mark S. Sands

Thesis Title: A Tale of Two Vectors: Adeno-associated Viral Gene Therapy and the Liver

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Jay W. Ponder

Thesis Title: A Quantum Physics-Based Force Field for Biomolecular Simulation

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Functional network plasticity in development and brain injury

Key words
functional networks, plasticity, brain injury, development, perinatal stroke, MRI, resting state

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1989

Thesis Advisor: Mark B. Willard

Thesis Title: "Expression of the Growth-Associated Protein GAP- 43 in Injured and Regenerating CNA Neurons"