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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Shabaana Abdul Khader

Thesis Title: Examining early interactions between innate airway resident immune cells and Mtb-specific factors during pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Jordan G. McCall, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2023

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 1999

Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder

Thesis Title: Characterization of a Protein S-Acyltransferase

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Alexander Stegh, PhD

Undergraduate university: Lehigh University, 2021

Christy is responsible for MSTP financial operations, student payroll and NIH NRSA compliance.

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1982

Thesis Advisor: Thomas A. Woolsey

Thesis Title: "Anatomical and Functional Plasticity in the Developing Mouse Central Trigeminal Pathway"

Program: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 1991

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey I. Gordon

Thesis Title: A Molecular Genetic Analysis of Protein N- Myristoylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics
Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Research summary

Key words
centrioles, cilia, signal transduction, cytoskeleton,

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2012

Thesis Advisor: Paul H. Taghert

Thesis Title: Cell Signaling Components of the Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2011

Thesis Advisor: Sheila A. Stewart

Thesis Title: Elucidating the role of hDna2 in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA maintenance