Important News About Some of our Lab’s Recent Alumni!
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Kate Kostenkova successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and is now a Postdoctoral research associate at Prof. Aldrich’s lab at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations Kate and best of luck! – June 2023
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Zeyad Arhouma successfully defnded his Ph.D. dissertation! Congratulations Zeyad and good luck! – May 2023
Sarah Sanders has successfully defended her M.S. thesis and is now a Chemist at Forte Analytical LLC in Fort Collins. Best of luck, Sarah! – May 2022
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And she’s off! Dr. Kaitlin Doucette has left us for her postdoc position at UC- San Francisco! – January 2021
Dr. Kelly Hassell (co-advised with Prof. Mark A. Brown) graduated spring 2020. Good luck, Kelly! -May 2020
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Dr. Cheryle Beuning was awarded a prestigious NRC research fellowship and a postdoc position at NIST. Good luck, Cheryle! – January 2020
Dr. Jim Carsella is now a professor at CSU Pueblo! Best of luck, Jim!
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Dr. Jordan Koehn is now a post doc for the Weeks lab at UNC- Chapel Hill. We’ll miss you, Jordan! – May 2019
Dr. Ben Peters has left us for a post doc position in the Krusemark lab at Purdue University. Best of luck, Ben! – November 2018
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Estela graduated this spring with a Master’s in Inorganic Chemistry. Good luck Estela! – May 2017
Estela is now employed by Homeland Security in Seattle.
Irma Sánchez Lombardo , Post-doctoral researcher in the group and Fulbright Scholar is leaving to take a position at the Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, Mexico beginning Spring 2016. We wish you the best of luck Irma!
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Kellie Woll, (right) is now in graduate school at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and has received a National Science Foundation four year fellowship!
Jason Smee (not pictured) is now on the faculty at University of Texas, Tyler – received one of the University of Texas Systems 2013 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award!
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Kate Kostenkova | Ph.D. Chemistry (2023) | Postdoctoral Research Associate at Professor Aldrich’s Lab (University of Minnesota) |
Heidi Murakami | Ph.D. Chemistry (2023) | |
Maggi Braasch-Turi | Ph.D. Chemistry (2023 | Assistant Professor at Fort Hays State University (Fort Hays, Kansas) |
Josef Grundy | M.S. Chemistry (2022) | Brewing Scientist at Weldwerks Brewing (Greeley, CO) |
Nathan Gasparovic | M. S. Chemistry (2022) | Quality Control Technician at LightDeck Diagnostics (Boulder, CO) |
Sarah Sanders | M. S. Chemistry (2022) | Research Associate and Lab Manager at Colorado State University |
Cameron Van Cleave | Ph. D. Chemistry (2021) | Postdoctoral fellow in the Bianchi lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Institutes of Medicine |
Sam Zhang | M. S. Chemistry (2021) | Industrial position in China |
Gaia Bublitz | M. S. Biochemistry (2021) | Ph. D. student in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado – Boulder |
Kelly Hassell | Ph. D. Cell and Molecular Biology (2021) | Formulations CMC Post-Doc/Early-Stage Development Consultant at Indivior |
Kaitlin Doucette | Ph. D. Cell and Molecular Biology (2020) | Scientist at Brightseed (San Francisco, CA) |
Cheryle Beuning | Ph. D. Chemistry (2020) | Postdoctoral fellow at NIST (Boulder, CO) and the NRC postdoctoral fellowship recipient |
Jordan Koehn | Ph. D. Chemistry (2019) | ITCMS postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill |
James Carsella | Ph. D. Chemistry (2018) | Professor at Colorado State University (Pueblo) |
Ben Peters | Ph. D. Chemistry (2018) | DNA Encoded Scientist at Nurix Therapeutics |
Estela Magallanes | M. S. Chemistry (2017) | The U. S. Department of Homeland Security in San Francisco, CA |