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Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Maxim Artyomov

Thesis Title: Understanding Immune Responses with Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and CyTOF Across Different Diseases and Model Organisms

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Graduation Year: 2025

Thesis Advisor: Sebla Bulent Kutluay

Thesis Title: The Role of the cGAS-STING Sensing Pathway in HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: B. Duygu Özpolat, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Chicago, 2019

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Fanxin Long

Thesis Title: Regulation of Cellular Glucose Metabolism during Osteoblast Differentiation

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Susan K. Dutcher

Thesis Title: ε-tubulin mutants affect basal body integrity, disrupt katanin localization and increase microtubule stability

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2000

Thesis Advisor: Samuel L. Stanley

Thesis Title: "Structure and Function of Entamoeba Histolytica Alcohol Dehydrogenase2 (EHADH2)"

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Joshua J. Sanes

Thesis Title: "Cloning and Characterization of e-Sarcoglycan, a Widely Distributed Homologue of the Gene Mutated in Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2D"

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Roberta Faccio, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2019

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Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2019

Thesis Advisor: Babak Razani

Thesis Title: The Autophagy-Lysosome System in Cardiometabolic Disease