Current lab members

Kristin Bruk Artinger, Ph.D
Principal Investigator



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​Virginia Ware,
​Professional Research Assistant

Project focus:
Human disease models of craniofacial development
 Brittany Truong, HMGGP Graduate Student
Project focus:  prdm1a function in development and disease


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​Ezra Lencer, Ph.D.
​Postdoctoral Fellow

Project focus: 
Cellular regulators of neural crest migration
​Co-mentored with the Prekeris lab
Jessica Hsu,
Pharmacology Graduate Student
​Project focus:  Developmental regulators of Rhabdomyosarcoma. Collaboration with the Ford lab

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​Rwik Sen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project focus:  Epigenetic regulation of cranial neural crest development
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​​Lomeli Carpio Shull, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project focus:
Epigenetic regulation 
of cranial neural crest
​development
Lab Alumni
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Takao Kaji, Research Associate, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, 
Tohoku University, Japan

Christy Cortez Rossi,  Assistant Teaching Professor,
Denver University

Irene Choi, Professional Research Associate
UC-AMC

Letitia Kwok, Specialist
ThermoFisher

Kelly Grant, Assistant Professor
Gannon University

Eugenia Olesnicky Killian, Associate Professor
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Jera Law, Specialist
GE Heathcare

Denise Birkholz, Intraoperative Neuromonitoring technologist
PhysioIOM/ProNerve


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​Keith Anderson, Research Scientist,
Genetech


Christopher W. Johnson, Staff Scientist
National Renewable Energy Labs


Davalyn Powell, Science writer, Buck Institute

Hai-Lei Ding, Assistant Research Professor
China

Kristi LaMonica, Assistant Professor
The Sages Colleges

Laura Hernandez, Senior Professional Research Associate
UC-AMC

Jenean O’Brien, Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Superior

Jason S. Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow, 
UC-AMC

Ritsuto Iwanaga, Instructor, 
UC-AMC