STUDENTS
Current Students
| Name | Thesis Advisor | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Isabela Neves | Rotating | |
| Tyler Eckerman | Rotating | |
| Abby Kugler | Rotating | |
| Erin Marsh | John Janetzko | |
| Lucero Castorena Casillas | Kirk Hansen, PhD | Lucero's research interests focus on connecting scientific research to important clinical challenges. She studies hemostasis and thrombosis to understand the molecular processes behind healthy and abnormal clot formation, and uses proteomics to examine these processes from a broader perspective. |
| Alex Crook | Kirk Hansen, PhD | Alex's research uses mass spectrometry to investigate the extracellular matrix composition across tissues and organisms. By characterizing these differences, he aims to uncover new insight into wound healing and fibrosis. |
| Charles Kroft | Beat Vogeli, PhD | Charlie is interested in studying protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions through biophysical approaches. He primarily utilizes NMR to investigate these interactions, with a particular interest in how dynamic structures can confer structural specificity |
| Amy Argabright | Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD | Amy studies protein-protein interactions and post translational modifications that regulate RBC biology. She is using cryo-EM, MS, NMR and biophysical techniques to define functional and dynamic protein complexes arranged on the RBC membrane. Her research investigates how these complexes are perturbed in hemolytic anemias such as sickle cell disease, and how these changes contribute to dysfunctional metabolism and redox responses |
| Lily Beck | Aaron Johnson, PhD | Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) is a major epigenetic regulator of transcriptional repression that plays an important role in development and is frequently involved in promoting disease states. PRC2 is required for silencing developmental regulator genes in embryonic stem cells and maintaining gene expression patterns formed during cell commitment. Lily's project aims to identify the factors involved in the regulation and activation of PRC2, both in cancerous and healthy cells, to gain a deeper understanding of PRC2’s mechanism of action with a long-term goal of creating new targeted therapies for related diseases. |
| Jenna Kotz | Aaron Johnson, PhD | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Alumni
| Name | Thesis Advisor | Current Position | Graduated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna VanKeuren | Tucker | 2026 | |
| Abby Trouth | Ramachandran | Postdoc Molaro Lab iGReD | 2026 |
| Alya Hussain | McMurray | Postdoc University of Wisconsin | 2026 |
| Stephanie Eramo | Ramachandran | 2026 | |
| 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 |
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