People

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2007

Thesis Advisor: Michael S. Diamond

Thesis Title: CD4+ T Cells and CD40-CD40L Interactions Mediate West Nile Virus Central Nervous System Clearance and Protection from Lethal Infection

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 1993

Thesis Advisor: Robert D. Schreiber

Thesis Title: Molecular Mapping of the Intracellular Domain of the Interferon-g Receptor: A Structure-Function Analysis Short: Structure-function of the IFNg Receptor

Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Carlos A. Botero

Thesis Title: Testing Janzen’s physiological barrier hypothesis through experimental evolution and biogeographic studies on sister species pairs.

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Indira U. Mysorekar

Thesis Title: The Decision Maker: Understanding the role of IFRD1 in urothelial plasticity and regeneration.

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Andrea Soranno, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Sciences-Philadelphia, 2019

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 2005

Thesis Advisor: Lawrence B. Salkoff

Thesis Title: Characterization of the SHL-1 voltage-gated K+ chancel in C. elegans

Program: Computational and Molecular Biophysics

Graduation Year: 2022

Thesis Advisor: Timothy M. Lohman

Thesis Title: Regulatory effects of the E. coli RecBCD nuclease domain on DNA melting and DNA unwinding kinetics

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: John R. Pruett, Jr.

Thesis Title: Intermediate Level Mechanisms Supporting Face Perception

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Michael Meers, PhD

Undergraduate university: Western New Mexico University, 2022

Program affiliation
Immunology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
My laboratory is focused on the molecular mechanisms regulating natural killer cell activation, novel methods to use NK cells as immunotherapy for cancer, and lymphoma genomics.

Key words
cancer, cytokine, immunology, innate immunity, NK cells, small noncoding RNAs, immunotherapy, lymphoma, genomics