STUDENTS
Current Students
| Name | Thesis Advisor | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Beck | Rotating | |
| Jenna Kotz | Rotating | |
| Alicia Key | Angelo D'Alessandro, PhD | |
| Van La | Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD | |
| Collette Wright | Rui Zhao, PhD | |
| McKayla Riney | Catherine Musselman, PhD | |
| Alex Black | Maggie Lam, PhD | My research involves the usage and optimization of mass spectrometry to study the proteomics of heart disease. I am currently working on expanding our understanding of the relationship between ER stress and heart disease through glycoproteomics. |
| Stephanie Eramo | Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD | My current research interests include enzymology, influences of post-translational modification on normal physiology and disease, oncogenic signaling, and cancer-causing mutations. |
| Mark Maslanka | Kirk Hansen, PhD | Currently, I've been working in the Hansen Lab for the past two years studying alterations in the ECM in various diseases, mainly focusing on cancer. |
| Mark Connolly | Mair Churchill, PhD | My primary research interest is the structural characteristics of chromatin that regulate cellular process such as gene transcription, cellular differentiation and replication. |
| Megan Cullinan | John Bankston, PhD | Structural dynamics of acid-sensing ion channels using biophysical and biochemical approaches |
| Harrison Fuchs | Catherine Musselman, PhD | I am interested in the mechanisms of chromatin signaling in the context of the nucleosome. Specifically, I'm currently working to learn about the conformational dynamics of the histone tails in the context of the nucleosome and how post-translational modifications alter these dynamics. Further, I am interested in understanding the implications of the histone tail dynamics on the read-out of chromatin signaling by histone reader domains. |
| Alya Hussain | Michael McMurray, PhD | My interests include functional receptor expression, cryo- EM, and neuroscience. |
| Jeffrey Krall | Beat Vogeli, PhD | I am interested in protein structure and function, specifically, I want to understand how the structure of a protein affects its function. |
| Ian LaCroix | Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD | My research interest is currently driven by computation, while I work from home due to the COVID19 pandemic. I am very interested in research involving athletic performance optimization, metabolism dynamics, hypoxia. The list of my research interests goes on and on, but is centralized by mass spectrometry. Overall, I am interested in the fundamentals and theory of how a mass spectrometer operates, how to make hardware/method improvements, application of mass spectrometry to answer important biological questions. Furthermore, intelligent data acquisition seems like the future for TMT quantification, and I am interested in the opportunity to facilitate its development. |
| Parker Nichols | Beat Vogeli, PhD, Co-M Jeffrey Kieft, PhD | I am interested in understanding how RNA molecules fold and function at a structural level |
| Abby Trouth | Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD | My research interests are in epigenetics and chromatin regulation, along with RNA biology and structure. |
| Anna VanKeuren | Chandra Tucker, PhD | I have John Bankston and his lab to thank for my interest in the field of ion channels and their structure. |
Alumni
| Name | Thesis Advisor | Current Position | Graduated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Nichols | Kieft/Vogeli | Postdoc, Brenda Bass Lab, University of Utah | 2024 |
| Ian LaCroix | D'Allesandro | Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, NIH | 2024 |
| Megan Cullinan | Bankston | Field Application Scientist, Thermo Fisher | 2023 |
| Harrison Fuchs | Musselman | Associate Technology Development Manager, Mayo Clinic | 2023 |
| Ruben Rosas Ospina | Churchill | Postdoc, Musselman Lab, CU Anschutz | 2023 |
| Lauren Schmitt | Hansen | Field Appplication Scientist, Thermo Fisher | 2023 |
| Conner Langeberg | Kieft | Postdoc Doudna and Cate Labs, UC Berkeley | 2023 |
| Rachel Culp-Hill | D'Alessandro | AOA diagnostics | 2022 |
| Maxwell McCabe | Hansen | Scientist, Mass Spec Core, Anschutz | 2022 |
| Sara Espinosa | Zhao | Associate Scientist and Medical Writer, National Comprehensive Cancer Network | 2022 |
| Cassandra Smith | Jones | 2022 | |
| Natalie Young | Asturias | Electron Microscopist, Thermo Fisher | 2021 |
| Alexis Catala | D'Alessandro | Postdoc, CU Anschutz | 2021 |
| Alexandra Born | Vogeli | Principal Scientist, Cogent Biosciences | 2021 |
| Joshua Abbott | LaBarbara | Senior Scientist, Rapafusyn Pharmaceuticals | 2020 |
| Aaron Issaian | Hansen | Research Associate, CU Anschutz | 2020 |
| Schuyler Lee | Zhang | Postdoc Columbia | 2019 |
| Stephen Pollard | Pollock | Consulting | 2019 |
| Vishantie Dostal | Churchill | R&D Director, LincSwitch Therapuetics | 2018 |
| Erik Hartwick | Kieft | Director of BioKEM CryoEM Facility, CU Boulder | 2018 |
| Alexander Barrett | Hansen | Vice President, Tempus Labs | 2017 |
| Travis Nemkov | Hansen | Research Associate Professor, CU Anschutz | 2017 |
| Ryan Hill | Hansen | Director, SEER | 2016 |
| Michael Holliday | Eisenmesser | Senior Scientist, Relay Therapuetics | 2016 |
| Agnieszka (Aga) Kendrick | Eisenmesser | Assistant Professor, Salk Institute | 2016 |
| Ryan Walsh | Duncan | Manager of Research and Development, SpectraPass | 2016 |
| Melanie Blevins | Zhao | Scientist, LICORbio | 2015 |
| Candice Wike | Tyler | Associate Director, TGen | 2014 |
| Ying-Chih Chi | Liu | Team Lead Applicaton Scientist, Thermo Fisher | 2014 |
| Jacek Klepacki | Christians | 2014 | |
| Sten Wie | Reyland | Senior Research and Business Analyst, SALT Lending | 2014 |
| Aaron Krueger | Zhao | Senior Scientist, Umoja Biopharma | 2013 |
| J. Paul Kirwan | Hodges | Senior Manager, Amgen | 2012 |
| Jennifer Schlegel | Graham | Senior Director, Disc Medicine | 2012 |