Nutrient availability in tropical forests regulates important ecosystem processes and may also drive forests’ responses to global change. Textbooks often generalize tropical forests as nitrogen …
My dissertation broadly focused on understanding forest nutrient cycling and how disturbance and changing environmental conditions may alter this. I studied these dynamics through plant-microbe …
Purpose: Primary care physicians (PCPs) have unique potential to improve abortion access because primary care settings are geographically easier for many patients to access compared …
Neutrophil-mediated host defense against pathogens includes the extrusion of a lattice of DNA and microbicidal enzymes known as Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs). The receptor:ligand interactions …
Automation has been rapidly changing the research performed in the scientific community. With more high-throughput technologies available to both academic and industrial scientists, improvements to …
Abstract of "Acceptability of HIV Prevention Approaches Among Faith-Based Leaders," by Alex Ede Rosenthal, ScM, Brown University, May 2021. This study evaluated the acceptability of …
Background and objectives: Over 2.4 million people have been displaced within the Thailand-Myanmar border region since 1988. The efficacy of community-driven health models within displaced …
ONC201 is a novel, orally bioavailable small molecule that is the founding member of the imipridone class and is currently in clinical trials for various …
Aberrant endothelial cell (EC) proliferation plays an important role in the vascular remodeling observed in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). Anoctamin-1 (Ano1), a calcium activated chloride …
Bone anchored prosthetic attachments, like other percutaneous devices, suffer from poor soft tissue integration, seen as chronic inflammation, infection, epithelial downgrowth and regression. We looked …
In this thesis, the potential success of a novel drug delivery system (PDAL DDS) in the current antifungal DDS market was evaluated. Focus was placed …
This dissertation investigates an old and fundamental question in evolutionary biology: how is adaptation maintained in highly heterogeneous environments? Adaptation in variable environments poses a …
Background: The fungal pathogen C. parapsilosis is increasingly recognized as a significant element of yeast bloodstream infection within microbiology, so further experimentation and study regarding …
Adipose-derived stems cells (ASCs) have key properties such as self-renew and differentiation that makes them a prime candidate to study various issues. An ASC spheroid …
Central nervous system disease pathologies are poorly understood in part due to the inability of animal and in vitro models to recapitulate their complexity. It …
Advancements in neurotechnology have helped people living with paralysis regain function through brain control of communication interfaces, prostheses, and even restored command of one’s own …
The central nervous system (CNS) contains a complex assortment of cell types and extracellular matrix proteins, which are arranged into an intricate architecture and ultimately …
Our research works to 1)understand protective mechanisms for improving sunscreens through the study of ultra violet light absorbers and 2) develop a novel detection and …
All disciplines of biomedical research utilize in vitro models to answer a range of biological questions. Traditional in vitro models, two-dimensional (2D) cell monolayers, fail …