Current lab members

Kristin Bruk Artinger, Ph.D
Principal Investigator

​Erin Binne,
​Professional Research Assistant and Lab manager

Project focus:
Targets of PRDM proteins in the face

 
​Brittany Truong, HMGGP F31 NRSA funded Graduate Student
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Project focus:  prdm1a function in development and disease

Julaine Roffers-Agarwal, Ph.D. 
Lab Manager

Project focus:
TBD

Addison Rains, CSD T32 funded Graduate student
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​Project focus: Regulation of neural crest migration 

​Co-mentored with the Prekeris lab

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​Lomeli Carpio Shull, Ph.D.
K99/R00 funded
​Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation 
of cranial neural crest
​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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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),  Associate 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) 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

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

​Davalyn Powell, Ph.D. (Predoctoral fellow 2010-2014) Associate Scientific Director, SPLICE Agency

Lab photos

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

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) Assistant 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) Nursing student, UC-AMC

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

Anthony Romeo, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2021) Visiting Assistant Professor, La Moyne College

Jessica Hsu, Ph.D. (Graduate Student 2014-2021) Scientist at Foresight Diagnostics

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












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