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Current lab members

Kristin Bruk Artinger, Ph.D
Principal Investigator and mentor

    

Bryan Zepeda, Researcher
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​Project focus:
​Regulation of neural crest migration 

Shruti Tophkhane, BDS/Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project focus: Regulation of neural crest migration.

Julaine Roffers-Agarwal, Ph.D. 
Lab Manager

Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation of neural crest cell fate decisions

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James Gronseth, Researcher
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​Project focus: Developmental regulators of muscle and cranial neural crest development. 

Silvia Meyer-Nava, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation 
of craniofacial and neuronal
​development

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Raha Fahmida, MCDBG Graduate student

​Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation 
of craniofacial and neuronal
​development

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Annika Gustafson, Mol Bio T32 funded MSTP Student
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​Project focus: Developmental regulators of Rhabdomyosarcoma. 

​Co-mentored with the Ford lab
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​Qiman Gao, DDS/Ph.D.
​Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus:
Trigeminal neuronal 
​development and dysfunction in TMD

Co-mentored with the Stone lab

Autumn Dobrowski, Administrative Assistant

Lab Alumni
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​Dawn Riedel, B.A. (Professional research assistant 2002-2003), Physician Assistant Emergency Medical Specialists

Pete Simpson, B.S. (Professional research assistant 2002-2005), Laboratory Director, Quest Diagnostics

Takao Kaji, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2002-2005), Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, 
Tohoku University, Japan
Website

Christy Cortez Rossi, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2004-2008),  Associate Teaching Professor,
Denver University
Website

Irene Choi, M.S. (Masters 2004-2006) Professional Research Associate,
UC-AMC

Letitia Kwok, M.S. (Masters 2005-2010) Scientist 2, Dharmacon

Kelly Grant, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2005-2007) Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Toxic Substance Control

Eugenia Olesnicky, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2007-2010) Professor,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Website
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Jera Law, M.S. (Masters 2007-2009) Senior Scientist, Horizon Discovery

Denise Birkholz, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2006-2009) Surgical Neurophysiologist at Neuromonitoring Associates

​Keith Anderson, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2008-2009) Principal Process Engineer,
Genetech

​Christopher W. Johnson, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2006-2011) Senior Scientist,
National Renewable Energy Labs
Website

​Davalyn Powell, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2010-2014) VP Scientific Stategy, Fingerpaint

Hai-Lei Ding, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2010-2015) Assistant Professor, Xuzhou Medical University, China



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Lab photos

Kristi LaMonica, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2009-2015) Associate Professor,
The Sages Colleges

Laura Hernandez, M.S. (Lab Manager 2004-2015) Senior Professional Research Associate
UC-AMC

Jenean O’Brien, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2012-2016) Associate Professor,
College of St. Scholastica 

Jason S. Williams, Ph.D (Predoctoral fellow 2012-2018) Lab manager, 
Trauma Research Inc

Ritsuto Iwanaga, Ph.D. (Instructor 2016-2018) Instructor, 
UC-AMC

Virginia Ware, M.S. (PRA 2015-2019), Practicing Nurse 

Rwik Sen, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2020) Application Specialist, ActiveMotif

Anthony Romeo, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2021) Application Specialist, Enzo Life Science

Jessica Hsu, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2014-2021) Genomics Senior Technical Development Scientist at Childrens Hospital Colorado

Ezra Lencer, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2022) Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
Website

Brittany Truong, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2017-2023) Past AAAS Mass Media Fellow and medical writer at Avant HC 

Erin Binne, B.S. (PRA 2019-2023) Professional Research Associate, CU-AMC

Addison Rains, B.S. (Predoctoral fellow 2022-2023) Ph.D. Graduate student CU Anschutz

Lomeli Shull, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2023)  Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
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