Graduate Students

  • Chris Smith
    I just got back from the Evolution Meeting in Providence and I’m full of information and ideas for research. I had the opportunity to reconnect with past colleagues and meet some new people. Other CU Â鶹ӰԺ folks attended, including the labs of Dan
  • PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS AND COMPETITIVE RUNNERS JOSH WHEELER, LEFT, AND THOMAS VOGLER ON THE SUMMIT OF LONG'S PEAK IN COLORADO.
    Toxic protein assemblies, or "amyloids," long considered to be key drivers in many neuromuscular diseases, also play a beneficial role in the development of healthy muscle tissue, Â鶹ӰԺ researchers have found. "Ours is the
  • Kristin Calahan
    This summer, I had the opportunity to present my research at the 2018 World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin, Ireland. As the premier meeting worldwide in the field of biomechanics, this was an incredible opportunity to network with scientists in this field, both within my subfield of biomechanics and far outside of it. I especially enjoyed this aspect of the conference because as an IQ Biology student I am intrigued by interdisciplinarity and the intersection of biology and mechanics at different length scales.
  • RNA splicing dance
    As part of BioFrontiers Institute Professor John Rinn’s biochemistry class, this week graduate students performed anÌýRNA splicing interpretive danceÌýon the west lawn of the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building. CU Nobel Laureate and
  • Faculty careers can progress in many directions
    The canonical story of faculty productivity goes like this: A researcher begins a tenure-track position, builds their research group, and publishes as much as possible to make their case for being awarded tenure. After getting tenure, increased
  • Does faculty productivity really decline with age? New study says no
    For 60 years, studies of everyone from psychologists to biologists to mathematicians have shown the same remarkably similar academic research trajectory: Scientists publish prolifically early in their careers, peak after about five years, get tenure
  • Graduate Research Assistant Giancarlo Bruni
    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)ÌýhasÌýannounced today the 2017 Gilliam FellowshipÌýawardees—exceptional doctoral students who have the potential to be leaders in their fields as well as the desire to advance diversity and
  • Katia Tarasava, IQ Biology Ph.D. Student
    I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is so far as I can tell - it does not frighten me.–Richard Feynman,ÌýThe Pleasure of Finding Things
  • John Milligan – photo courtesy of Gilead Sciences
    John Milligan spent two years at the Â鶹ӰԺ during his graduate studies in the mid-1980’s. He helped to move his mentor, Dr. Olke Uhlenbeck, in a U-Haul truck across the Great Plains to the Rockies. Uhlenbeck was recruited
  • Phil Richardson, an author on a paper recently published in Nature, developed a love for bioinformatics in BioFrontiers' Robin Dowell's lab. His next move: pursuing a graduate degree in medical genomics.
    Bioinformatics answers questions of cancer and career pathPhil Richardson, an author on a paper recently published in Nature, developed a love for bioinformatics in BioFrontiers' Robin Dowell's lab. His next move: pursuing a graduate degree in
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