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Meet our Team
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Santos Franco, PhD

Principal Investigator

Aleezah Balolia

PhD Student - Neuroscience Program
CCTSI TOTTS T32 Fellow
Started August 2021

Salvador Guerra

PhD Student - Neuroscience Program
Started August 2023

Alyssa Powell

PhD Student - Cell Biology, Stem Cells & Development Program
NIGMS GDDR T32 Trainee
Started August 2024

Santiago Fregoso, PhD

Research Scientist (Faculty)

JP Martin

PhD Student - Cell Biology, Stem Cells & Development Program
NIGMS GDDR T32 Trainee
Started August 2022

Ashwini Shinde

PhD Student - Neuroscience Program
Started August 2023

Lab Alumni

Santiago Fregoso

PhD Student - CSD Program
2013-2019
Thesis Committee: Linda Barlow, Lee Niswander, Joseph Brzezinski, Julie Siegenthaler, Peter Dempsey, Matthew Kennedy
After: F32-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in Tim Cherry's Lab @ Seattle Children's Research Institute
Now: Research Faculty at CU Anschutz, Department of Pediatrics

Christina Como

PhD Student - NSP Program
2018-2024
Thesis Committee: Santos Franco, Joseph Brzezinski, Emily Bates, Kristin Artinger, Mark Dell'Acqua
Now:

Caitlin Winkler

PhD Student - CSD Program
2013-2019
Thesis Committee: Bruce Appel, Wendy Macklin, Julie Siegenthaler, Joseph Brzezinski, Ethan Hughes, Kevin Jones
After: Informatics Fellow - RNA Biosciences Initiative at CU - Anschutz Medical Campus
Now: Senior Solutions Scientist at Pluto Bioinformatics

Luuli Tran

PhD Student - MOLB Program
2019-2025
Thesis Committee: Bruce Appel, Linda Barlow, Joan Hooper, Jamie Nichols
Now: Bioinformatics Scientist at Edgewise Therapeutics

Mark Gutierrez

PhD Student - CSD Program
2014-2020
Thesis Committee: Emily Bates, Linda Barlow, Angeles Ribera, Jeffrey Moore, Mark Dell'Acqua
Now: Captain in the United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD)

Madisen Mason

PhD Student - NSP Program
2020-2025
Thesis Committee: Julie Siegenthaler, Wendy Macklin, Joe Brzezinski, Charles Sagerstrom, Adam Green
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New Mexico