“Sixteen participants in the Vice President for Research’s 3 Minute Challenge were selected to become the next cohort in the VPR Graduate Fellows Program at Colorado State University. In addition to receiving $4,000 for travel and research expenses, the new fellows …
Congratulations to Dr. Josh Svendsen who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation on February 27!
Brian Geiss, Ph.D. Brian Geiss, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, came to CSU in 2005 as a researcher and joined the faculty in 2010. He helped establish the master’s program in microbiology and immunology …
Nadia Sampaio recently completed her PhD in the Argueso Lab and joined the Dunlop Lab at Boston University as a post-doc. There she will be using synthetic and systems biology approaches to quantitatively understand and engineer cellular processes. Q&A Can …
Jared Luxton is in the Cell and Molecular Biology 2016 cohort doing research on telomeres out of the Bailey lab. Both an active member of the CMBSA and an accomplished computational biologist, Jared has proved himself to be a competent …
Erin Lynch graduated from the Cell and Molecular Biology program in 2019 with her Masters degree. In Brian Geiss’ lab Erin worked to understand the mechanistic details of flavivirus replication with research on the DXO decapping exonuclease as a restriction …
Kailee Reed is a current Ph.D. student in the Cell and Molecular Biology program working in Dr. Tai Mongomery’s lab. Her research interests include regulatory genetic pathways and roles for piRNAs and WAGO-class siRNAs in shaping the germline transcriptome in …
Hailey Sedam completed her PhD in 2018 in Dr. Argueso’s lab. Her research interests include human genetic disease and genetic variant analysis. After completing a postdoc at the University of New Mexico’s Cancer Research Facility, Hailey began work at Clinical …
Tom LaRocca is an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at CSU and he is a new faculty member in the Cell and Molecular Biology program. His research focuses on the biology of healthspan and he …
Charlene Van Buiten is a new CMB faculty member in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Her research focuses on the biochemical functionality of plant-based foods in treating chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and how processing …
