People
Tom Foutz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: tfoutz@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Key words
Tiffanie Fowlkes-Titsworth
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2015
Thesis Advisor: Stephen M. Beverley
Thesis Title: Role of the Flagellum throughout the Leishmania Life Cycle
Paul Fox
Program: Developmental Biology
Graduation Year: 2010
Thesis Advisor: Tim B. Schedl
Thesis Title: Mitotic Cell Cycle Progression and Differentiation of Germline Stem Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Quinn Fox
Program: Evolution Ecology and Population Biology
Graduation Year: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Rachel M. Penczykowski
Thesis Title: Wild plant–pathogen interactions across gradients of urbanization and latitude
Patrice Foy
Admissions Administrative Assistant
- Email: foyp@wustl.edu
(she/her)
Patrice addresses applicant questions, supports admissions and works extensively with the DBBS summer undergrad research programs.
Susan Francis
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Graduation Year: 1996
Thesis Advisor: Daniel E. Goldberg
Thesis Title: Characterization of plasmepsins I and II, aspartic proteases essential for hemoglobin digestion by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Emily Franke
Program: Neurosciences
Current advisor: Amynah Pradhan, PhD
Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2020
Tom Franken, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: ftom@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Understanding how the primate brain processes sensory information to perceive the world as an organized collection of objects
Key words
primate, macaque, visual, auditory, cortex, electrophysiology, multiphoton imaging, optogenetics, perception, figure-ground, foreground, background, image segmentation, laminar circuit, cortical column, neuropixels, binocular disparity, depth, 3D
Doug Frantz, PhD
Professor
- Email: dougf@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences
Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Research summary
Small molecule drug discovery inspired research across multiple therapeutic areas including chronic pain, oncology, and neurodegeneration.
Key words
drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic methods
Carl Franz
Program: Molecular Cell Biology
Graduation Year: 2014
Thesis Advisor: David Wang
Thesis Title: Identification and Characterization of Novel Caenorhabditis Nematode Viruses