Lab News

This Fall we celebrated Portia Larson as she presented all the outstanding work she did in our Lab! Portia Graduated this fall and we are so proud of her and wish her all the best in her future work! 

October 7th, 2025: Our postdoc Aleksandra served as the leading organizer of the Front Range Industry & Postdoc Summit 2025 (FRIPS 2025), alongside an amazing team of fellow organizers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the

May 16th, 2025: Our postdoc Aleksandra, president of the Postdoctoral Association at the University of Colorado Boulder (PAC, https://www.colorado.edu/pac/), led the organization of the CU postdoc retreat at Winter Park. The event agenda was

This Spring we had much to celebrate, one PhD and three undergraduate Graduations. Erin defended her PhD thesis in January and Evan, Alyx, and Stephanie defended undergraduate honors thesis's this past spring! Congrats to: Erin Richards: PhD

Erin Successfully defended her PhD thesis!Titled: Improvement and characterization of Riboglow, a tole to fluorescently visualize RNA in live cells. Her PhD work aimed to improve a tool from the lab called Riboglow which was published in 2018.

Keiran McGee has been in the Palmer lab since fall 2023 and presented his body of work as an undergraduate Honors Thesis titled: Optimization of a Native RNA Purification Method for Application in the Production of RNA-Based Biosensor. He

The Cell Biology of Metals GRC is a conference that focuses on understanding metal-facilitated processes in cell biology, with topics ranging from metal trafficking and signaling, metals in the enviroment and plant biology, imaging of

Our undergraduates Caitlyn Mendik and Mia Fox both graduate! Caitlyn graduates with a degree in biochemistry and Mia graduates with a degree in biomedical engineering! Congratulations and we can't wait to see what you do next!

Sam and Amy head to Woods Hole, MA to visit the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and teach a course and lab on FRET biosensors as part of the MBL Analytical and Quantitative Microscopy Course! Amy gives a lecture on fluorescent tools for

Mia presents her poster at the BSI Scholar Research Symposium. Portia and Mena also give BSI presentations. Everyone did an awesome job!   Mia with her poster at the BSI Scholar Research Symposium!     Mena at her BSI presentation