Current lab members

Kristin Bruk Artinger, Ph.D
Principal Investigator

​Erin Binne,
​Professional Research Assistant

Project focus:
TBD

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​Brittany Truong, HMGGP Graduate Student
Project focus:  prdm1a function in development and disease

​Ezra Lencer, Ph.D.
T32 funded Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus: 
Cellular regulators of neural crest migration
​Co-mentored with the Prekeris lab

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Jessica Hsu,
Pharmacology Graduate Student
(past CCTSI funded)
​Project focus: Developmental regulators of Rhabdomyosarcoma. Co-mentored with  the Ford lab

New member TBD!
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​​Lomeli Carpio Shull, Ph.D.
F32 NRSA funded
​Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation 
of cranial neural crest
​development

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Anthony Mangan, Ph.D.
T32 funded Postdoctoral Fellow
Project focus: Developmental regulators of Rhabdomyosarcoma. 
​Co-mentored with  the Ford lab

Lab Alumni
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Takao Kaji, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2002-2005), Research Associate, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, 
Tohoku University, Japan

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

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

Letitia Kwok, M.S. (Masters 2005-2010) Specialist
ThermoFisher

Kelly Grant, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2005-2007) Assistant Professor,
Gannon University

Eugenia Olesnicky Killian, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2007-2010) Associate Professor
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Jera Law, M.S. (Masters 2007-2009) Specialist
GE Heathcare

Denise Birkholz, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2006-2009) Intraoperative Neuromonitoring technologist,
PhysioIOM/ProNerve

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

Lab photos

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


Davalyn Powell, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2010-2014) Science writer, Buck Institute

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

Kristi LaMonica, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow 2009-2015) Assistant 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) Assistant Professor,
University of Wisconsin, Superior

Jason S. Williams, Ph.D (Predoctoral fellow 2012-2018) Postdoctoral Fellow, 
UC-AMC

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

Virginia Ware, M.S. (PRA 2015-2019) Program Administrator UC Denver

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