Summ 2024

• New Lab Members! ​
  • This summer we are excited to be hosting Natalie Baez Torres, from Universidad Ana G. Mendez, as part of the CSU BMB REU program - welcome Natalie!
• Lab Travel
  • ​The lab attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference in January! It was super fun to have a critical mass at the conference. Pics below!
• Lab Awards & Accomplishments
  • In collaboration with Richelle Tanner at Chapman University, Kate Wilsterman was awarded an NSF BIO-LEAPS award to work with scientific societies to help address and improve their organizational conference. Makenna Juergens will be participating as a graduate student researcher on this project. Look out for our table at Mammalogy and Evolution this summer!
  • Meg Hemmerlein won the Ray Huey award for Best Student Poster at the SICB meeting - this is a significant accomplishment, especially for a second-year graduate student. We're proud of you Meg!
  • Makenna Juergens was awarded an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship competition - super impressive! Awesome job, Makenna!
  • Hannah Butkus was awarded Highest Honors, a University-level award, for her undergraduate thesis presentation at CSU's Celebration of Undergraduate Research Conference (CURC) this Spring. Hannah was mentored closely by Anna Bautista.
  • Anna Bautista's time in the lab is coming to a close, but she was accepted into Neuroscience PhD programs at both Princeton and Emory University! Anna ultimately chose Emory - we're excited to watch your successes Anna, and hopefully we'll see you in Atlanta for SICB 2025!
  • Kate Wilsterman was selected as a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Early Career Investigator awardee. This award brings both money to the lab to continue our research and it connects the lab with a broader set of Colorado-based researchers and biotechnologies folks. Woohoo!