People

Our lab applies stem cell biology to explore fundamental aspects of biology, development, and regenerative medicine.

I originally lived in Western Massachusetts until the age of 12. I moved to Colorado and received my bachelor’s in MCDB here at CU. As an undergrad I was a Learning assistant for Justin and took the opportunity to go further into my career and started at the Brumbaugh lab as PRA in May 2023.

I grew up in Portland, OR and got my bachelor’s degree in biology at Whitman College in the tiny town of Walla Walla, Washington. As an undergraduate, I worked as an intern at the Weizmann Institute studying cardiomyocyte proliferation, and at the University of Missouri studying maize development. I also worked as a research assistant at Whitman College, mapping degradation domains of the plant hormone auxin. I joined the Brumbaugh...

I'm a Massachusetts transplant that desperately wanted to be around mountains after living most of my life in the Northeast. I lived in Honolulu, HI before moving to Amherst, MA when I was seven. I did undergrad at Colgate University, working with Dr. Ana Jimenez on thermal physiology in songbirds. After college, I was a research assistant in the Rubin Lab at Harvard University, working on a differentiation protocol for...

I grew up just outside of St. Louis, Missouri and received my bachelor’s degree in biology from Washington University in St. Louis. I discovered my love of research as an undergraduate research assistant during my four years at WashU, where I studied obesity in Drosophila and cardiac metabolism in mice. I moved to Boulder and joined the MCDB Ph.D. program in the fall of 2018, and the Brumbaugh lab in...

I received my undergraduate degree from CU Boulder in 2011 and taught high school science for several years before returning for a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences- Assisted Reproductive Technologies from Colorado State University in 2017. Following my internship studying antioxidants in pre-implantation embryo culture, I became a research embryologist at the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine. I simultaneously completed my Ph. D. in Biomedical Sciences from Colorado State University...

As a kid growing up in south Denver, the first real job I wanted (after the obligatory "firefighter" answer) was to be a scientist. In January 2022, I made a big step towards this dream by transferring to CU Boulder to study Neuroscience and MCDB. The wonderful people at the Brumbaugh Lab - in coordination with the Uplift Research Program - are helping me to take another step towards this...

I was born and raised in Colorado. I am a junior at CU Boulder Studying MCDB and Biochemistry with the hope of going to graduate school. I joined the Brumbaugh lab in order to develop and further my understanding of how cell fate is determined and how research is done in the field of cellular and molecular biology as well as to learn how to be the best researcher I...