People

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Graduation Year: 2021

Thesis Advisor: Joshua Swamidass

Thesis Title: Computational Approaches for Screening Small Molecule Drug Bioactivation, Reactive Metabolite Formation, and Toxicity

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2001

Thesis Advisor: Narasimhan Gautam

Thesis Title: G-Protein beta gamma Complex Interaction with Effectors and Receptors

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
My research interests lie in integrating and applying novel computational biology techniques with mechanistic experimental immunology to understand drivers of response and resistance to NK cell therapies for cancer

Key words
natural killer cells, computational biology, single-cell sequencing, immunotherapy, nk cells

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Graduation Year: 2020

Thesis Advisor: Li Ding

Thesis Title: Multi-omic integration for gene fusion discovery and somatic mutation haplotyping in cancer

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2003

Thesis Advisor: Ann A. Craig

Thesis Title: The Molecular Dynamics of Excitatory Postsynaptic Composition

Program: Evolutionary and Population Biology

Graduation Year: 1992

Thesis Advisor: Peter H. Raven

Thesis Title: Systematics and Evolution of Montiopsis Subgenus Montiopsis (Portulacaceae) Short: Systematics of Montiopsis

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Michael G. Caparon

Thesis Title: A novel cholesterol-independent mode of binding promotes cytolysin-mediated translocation and pore formation by Streptolysin O

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2015

Thesis Advisor: Gautam Dantas

Thesis Title: The Diversity, Ecology, and Clinical Implications of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Uncultured Soil Microbial Communities

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Jason D. Weber

Thesis Title: Cooperative Tumor Suppression by ARF and p53

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1994

Thesis Advisor: Robert G. Kranz

Thesis Title: Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation Genes in Rhodobacter capsulatus: the Role of ntrC