Alumni

Kristen Bjorkman, PhD, 2008 - 2024
 
Claudia Crocini, PhD, 2017 - 2021
 
Sarah Lehman, PhD, 2018 - 2021
 
Anastasia Karabina, PhD, 2016 - 2020
 
Angela Peter, PhD, 2014 - 2020
 
Genevieve Kerr Wilson, PhD, 2014 - 2020
 
Maureen Bjerke, PhD, 2014 - 2018
 
Kaylan Haizlip, PhD, 2012 - 2016
 
Alberto Rossi, PhD, 2010 - 2016
Current: Research Scientist, Roche Pharmaceuticals
 
William Wan, PhD, 2012 - 2015
 
Brooke Harrison, PhD, 2009 - 2014
 
Pamela Harvey, PhD, CMPP, 2009 - 2014
 
Eunhee Chung, PhD, 2007 - 2012
 
Ina Weidenfield, PhD, 2009 - 2012
 
Fan Yeung, PhD, 2009 - 2012
 
Cecilia Riquelme, PhD, 2005 - 2010
 
Bob Thompson, PhD, 1995 - 2010
Current: Retired
 
Poornima Bhupathy, PhD, 2008 - 2009
Current: Research Associate, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
 
John Konhilas, PhD, 2001 - 2008
 
Stephen Luckey, PhD, 2002 - 2008
 
Malti Nikrad, PhD, 2004 - 2006
 
Angelika Paul, PhD, 2003 - 2005
 
David Allen, PhD, 1998 - 2004
 
Antke Messmer-Kratzsch, PhD, 2003 - 2004
 
Brian Stauffer, MD, 1999 - 2004
 
Alexander Maass, PhD, 1999 - 2002
 
Nancy Ayers Rice, PhD, 2000 - 2002
 
Carmen "Kika" Sucharov, PhD, 1998 - 2002
 
Ulrika Widegren, PhD, 2001 - 2002
 
David Lucas, PhD, 1999 - 2001
 
Lauren Millette, PhD, 1998 - 1999
 
Setsuya Miyata, PhD, 1996 - 1999
Current: Professor, Dept. of Histology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka Japan
 
Koichi Nakao, PhD, 1996 - 1998
Current: Professor, Kumamoto Medical University, Japan
 
Osha Roopnarine, PhD, 1995 - 1998
 
Carol Sartorius, PhD, 1996 - 1998
 
Jil Tardiff, MD, PhD, 1994 - 1998
 
Karen Vikstrom, PhD, 1990 - 1997
Current: Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School - Ann Arbor
 
John Edwards, PhD, 1991 - 1994
 
Anthony Straceski, MD, 1990 - 1994
 
Rajeev Sindhwani, MD, 1991 - 1993
 
Janine LeBlanc-Straceski, PhD, 1988 - 1992
 
Arthur Rovner, PhD, 1988 - 1992
 
Peter Buttrick, MD, 1988 - 1991
 
Glenn Fishman, MD, 1988 - 1991
 
Richard Kitsis, MD, 1989 - 1991
 
Doris Taylor, PhD, 1987 - 1991
 
Ruth Grebenau, PhD, 1981 - 1984
 
Marian Jackson, PhD, 1981 - 1984
Xinyi Fu, 2019 - 2023
 
Yuxiao Tan, PhD, 2018 - 2023
Dissertation: Dynamic Physiological Remodeling in Post-Prandial Burmese Pythons
 
Lindsey Lee, PhD, 2017 - 2022
Dissertation: Functional Divergence of the Atypical Sarcomeric Myosin Myh7b Supports Specialized Biological Roles across Species
 
Lindsey Broadwell, PhD, 2017 - 2021
Dissertation: The Ancient Myosin Gene MYH7b Is Repurposed by Alternative Splicing to Be a Regulatory Long Non-Coding RNA in the Human Heart
 
Cierra Walker, PhD, 2016 - 2021
Dissertation: Signaling from Matrix Stiffness to the Cells of the Heart
 
Tova (Christensen) Ceccato, PhD, 2015 - 2020
Dissertation: Physical and Biochemical Cues Initiate Pathological Signaling in Cardiac Fibroblasts
 
Deanna Langager-Muehleman, PhD, 2013 - 2019
Dissertation: Biological Sex Differences in a Rodent Model of Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy and Regression
 
Carlos Vera, PhD, 2012 - 2019
Dissertation: Functional Characterization of Disease-Causing Mutations in Human Myosin Heavy Chain Genes
 
Kelsey Spaur, MD, 2017 - 2018
 
Veronica Dengler, PhD, 2015 - 2017
Dissertation: Transcriptional Regulation in Cancer-Driven Cellular Stress & Functional Specialization of a Myosin Heavy Chain Protein, MYH7B
Current: Freelance Science Writer, Boulder, CO
 
Carlos Vera, PhD, 2012 - 2019
Dissertation: Functional Characterization of Disease-Causing Mutations in Human Myosin Heavy Chain Genes
 
Christa (Blenck) Trexler, PhD, 2011 - 2017
Dissertation: Biological Sex Differences in the Gene Expression and Contractile Function of Cardiac Myocytes
 
Jason Magida, PhD, 2011 - 2015
Dissertation: The Application of Novel Metabolic Therapies to the Improvement of Cardiac Function and Architecture
 
Emily Pugach, PhD, 2010 - 2015
Dissertation: Sexually dimorphic cardiac adaptation is mediated by Cre expression, independent of estrogen-receptor-α expression
 
Martin Guess, PhD, 2009 - 2014
Dissertation: Characterization of microRNA Function During Skeletal Myogenesis
 
Dave Busha, PhD, 2007 - 2014
Dissertation: Development of a novel technology for the display and affinity selection of human/mammalian proteins
 
John Deacon, PhD, 2007 - 2013
Dissertation: Fast kinetics of human myosin heavy chain contraction in health and disease
 
Huan (Sharon) Wang, PhD, 2006 - 2012
Dissertation: Signaling from matrix elasticity and TGF-β1 to cells of the cardiac valve
 
Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD, 2006 - 2011
Dissertation: Cardiac atrophy due to cancer: Characterization, Mechanisms and Sex Differences
 
Matthew Bell, PhD, 2001 - 2011
Dissertation: The role and regulation of sarcomeric myosin heavy chain genes and their intronic microRNAs
Current: Private Consultant
 
Thomas Armel, PhD, 2003 - 2009
Dissertation: Characterization of disease causing mutations in the rod region of β-myosin heavy chain
 
Travis Hughes, PhD, 2003 - 2009
Dissertation: Naked plasmid DNA as a vector for delivery of genes to the intrathecal space: Expression and immune response
 
Elizabeth Luczak, PhD, 2003 - 2008
Dissertation: Modifiers of cardiac adaptation
 
Daniel Resnicow, PhD, 2002 - 2007
Dissertation: Functional diversity among human skeletal myosins and a myopathic mutation
 
Jamie Sheren, PhD, 2001 - 2007
Dissertation: Identifying functional lox sequences: A genomic search and randomized libraries
 
Doris Heidysch Beylkin, PhD, 2001 - 2006
Dissertation: Regulation of developmental myosin heavy chain transcription in cardiac and skeletal muscle
 
Brooke Harrison, PhD, 1999 - 2003
Dissertation: Regulation of developmental myosin heavy chain transcription in cardiac and skeletal muscle
 
Peter Mariner, PhD, 1999 - 2003
Dissertation: Repression of the rat α-myosin heavy chain promoter by the multifunctional transcription factor yin yang-1
 
Gennyne Walker, PhD, 1996 - 2003
Dissertation: Regulation of contractile gene expression in myofibroblasts and skeletal muscle cells
 
Jason Carnes, PhD, 1996 - 2002
Dissertation: RNA-based strategies to prevent translation termination at nonsense mutations
 
Kurt Haubold, PhD, 1995 - 2002
Dissertation: The impact of desmin mutations on the structure and function of muscle
 
Michael Strauss, PhD, 1993 - 2002
Dissertation: Characterization of the assembly competent domain of myosin heavy chain
 
Ghislaine Mayer, PhD, 1992 - 1999
Dissertation: Sarcomeric gene expression and contractility in myofibroblasts
Current: Professor, Biology, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY
 
Allison Weiss, PhD, 1991 - 1997
Dissertation: Sequences and genomic organization of the human myosin heavy chain family
 
Robert Welikson, PhD, 1991 - 1997
Dissertation: Structure function analysis of cardiac troponin T and myosin heavy chain
 
Alyson Kass-Eisler, PhD, 1990 - 1995
Dissertation: Plasmid DNA and recombinant adenoviruses as vectors for foreign gene transfer to the heart
 
Brian Lu, MD, PhD, 1990 - 1995
Dissertation: The adult fast myosin heavy chains isoforms: Studies in development and consequences of gene disruption
 
Stephanie Seiler, PhD, 1990 - 1995
Dissertation: The impact of MyBP-C family members on sarcomeric MyHC organization
 
Claudia Saez, PhD, 1987 - 1993
Dissertation: Molecular genetic characterization of nonmuscle myosin heavy chain
 
Regina Sohn, PhD, 1986 - 1991
Dissertation: Sequence requirements for the thick filament assembly of sarcomeric myosin
 
Rebecca Feghali, PhD, 1985 - 1990
Dissertation: Changes in human myosin heavy chain gene expression in development and disease
Current: Retired
 
Robert Kraft, PhD, 1985 - 1990
Dissertation: The sequence diversity and transcriptional activity of members of the mouse 4.5 S RNA gene family
 
Stewart Frankel, PhD, 1984 - 1990
Dissertation: Expression of actin in Escherichia coli, its preparation in a soluble form, and its functional characterization
 
Diana Heller, PhD, 1984 - 1990
Dissertation: Organization and expression of mouse repetitive DNA sequences
 
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, 1983 - 1990
Dissertation: Mapping functional domains in myosin
 
Lino Saez, PhD, 1981 - 1986
Dissertation: Human Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Organization and Expression
Current: Deceased
Jason Flint, 2023 - 2024
MS | Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
 
Christopher Haines, 2007 - 2012
MS | Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
 
Megan Lyman Bonner, 1999 - 2001
MA | Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
 
Brian Freeman, 1997 - 2000
 

Jonathan Davis, Summer 2024 (Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training Program, University of Colorado Boulder)

Lilly Walsh, Summer 2024 (Biology, Bucknell University)

Ashlynn Barnes, 2021 - 2022 (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Colorado Boulder)

José Santos Navarro-Arriola, 2018 - 2021 (Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program, McNair Scholars Program, University of Colorado Boulder)

Megan Becker, 2018 - 2020 (Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder)

Molly Madden, 2017 - 2020 (MCDB, University of Colorado Boulder)

Sara Ahmad, 2018 - 2019 (Neuroscience & Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Colorado Boulder)

Matthew Genelin, 2016 - 2019 (Neuroscience & Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Colorado Boulder)

Kimberly Lugo, 2016 -2019 (MCDB, University of Colorado Boulder)

Monica Pilewskie, 2016 - 2019 (MCDB, University of Colorado Boulder)

Esther Choi, 2015 - 2018 (MCDB, University of Colorado Boulder)

Jessica Hall, 2016 - 2018 (Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder)

Rachel Starbuck, 2016 - 2018 (Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder)

Amanda Wacker, Summer 2018 (Biology, Florida State University)

Jocelyn Delgado, Summer 2017 (Human Biology, University of California Santa Cruz)

Sierra Atwater, Summer 2015 & Summer 2016 (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Oliver Dansereau, 2015 - 2016 (Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder)

Benny Marin-Acevedo, 2015 - 2016

Whitney Stanton, 2015 - 2016 (Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Colorado Boulder)