People

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Medicinal chemistry with a broad goal of drug design and organic synthesis

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Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1997

Thesis Advisor: Paul C. Bridgman

Thesis Title: "Actin-Based Intracellular Transport and Myosin V: the Role of a Membrane-Associated Mechanoenzyme in Intracellular Transport"

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
Defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate memory B cell heterogeneity and fate.

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Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Gary D. Stormo

Thesis Title: Complex Genome Regulation Characterized by Atypical Signatures in DNA Methylation

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Daved H. Fremont

Thesis Title: Structural mechanisms of poxvirus sabotage of T-cell costimulation

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay

Thesis Title: Investigating the Integration-independent role of HIV-1 integrase in the viral life cycle

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2023

Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Bart

Thesis Title: Investigating Cassava Susceptibility to Xanthomonas Induced Bacterial Blight using Disease Phenotyping and Genome Engineering Strategies

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: Virginia L. Miller

Thesis Title: Temperature regulation of inv by RovA, YmoA and H-NS in Yersinia enterocolitica

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Kodi S. Ravichandran, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Los Angeles, 2020

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Mechanical properties of reconstituted tissues; fluctuation spectroscopy of protein interactions

Key words
cytoskeleton, signal transduction, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, tissue engineering, cell/tissue mechanics