Current Students

Research Interest:
Pain Signaling Pathways in Endometriosis Using Patient Tissue Samples

Research Interest:
Tau Post-Translational Modifications mediate cellular dysfunctions in Alzheimer’s Disease

Research Interest:
Exploring the neurophysiologic and neuropathologic basis of photophobia in a rare lysosomal storage disorder.


Research Interest:
Mitochondrial genetics and function as determinants of mesenchymal stem cell fate


Research Interest:
Inflammatory processes involved in the onset and development of Osteoarthritis


Research Interest:
The effect of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress on tau pathology.

Research Interest:
The role of desmosomal protein PKP2 on the alteration of nuclear envelope integrity and genomic organization in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy


Research Interest:
The Microglial Response to Inhibition of Colony-Stimulating-Factor-1 Receptor Differs by Sex in Adult Mice

Research Interest:
Mechanism in Dental Implant Failure and Biomedical Tissue Engineering Treatment in Peri-implantitis.

Research Interest: Modulation of Ribosome Dynamics by Translation Factors and Antibiotics


Research Interest:
MAdCAM-1 costimulation in the presence of retinoic acid and TGF-β promotes HIV infection and differentiation of CD4+ T cells into CCR5+ TRM-like cells




Research Interest:
Identifying the contributions of the mycobiome to skin in health and disease.

Research Interest:
Elucidating the Epigenetic Mechanisms that Regulate stress and steady-state Erythropoiesis, with the overarching goal of ameliorating symptoms in hemoglobinopathies.

Research Interest:
Mechanisms underlying TANGO2 Deficiency Disorder in a C. elegans model.

Research Interest:
Investigating the underlying mechanisms associated with Pancreatic cancer-induced skeletal muscle wasting.

Research Interest:
Optimization of an in vitro model of Staphylococcal abscess communities to study bactericidal mechanisms
Research Interest:
Role of the cGAS-STING Pathway in Cytoplasmic Trafficking of Plasmids”

Research Interest:
Investigating the role of retinoic acid (RA) signaling in Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) and TED pathophysiology.











