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Lab Outing Day 2021

White Water Rafting - Clear Creek, CO

Olivia Pérez de Acha López, MD

Visiting Research Scholar

Eliza Rhee

Summer Intern 2021

Beau Idler

Professional Research Assistant Emeritus

Beau left the lab in June 2020 after working with us for 1 ½ years. During his time in our lab, Beau pioneered our pipeline for testing drug combinations for synergy in cell lines and patient samples. He also made significant contributions to multiple projects through ex vivo drug sensitivity experiments and testing new potential myeloma regimens using in vivo xenograft models. Beau is currently pursuing his MD at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale Arizona.

Denis Ohlstrom

Bioinformatics Certificate Program

Denis left the lab in June 2020 after working with us for 1 year. During his time with our group, Denis created a bioinformatics pipeline for processing mass cytometry (CyTOF) data in Rstudio, and analyzing the output via machine learning algorithms. He also conducted our first single cell RNA sequencing experiment to interrogate myeloma subpopulations. After leaving the lab, Denis entered the MD, PhD program at Emory University.

Lab Outing Day 2020

Grey's Peak, 14,278 feet

Axe Throwing

2020

Poster Presentation

American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, Orlando, 2019

Janet Lee, Visiting Undergraduate

Cancer Research Fellowship Program, Summer 2019

Lab BBQ 2019: Epic Grilled Cheese Party

Lab Outing Day 2018

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New Belgium Brewery Tour, Fort Collins

Mike VanWyngarden

Professional Research Assistant Emeritus

Mike left the lab in December 2018 after working with us for 2 ½ years. During this time, he focused on the development of ex vivo drug sensitivity profiling assay on primary samples which we continue to optimize to measure clinical drug resistance and guide development of new agents for myeloma. This work was recently published in the journal Blood Advances. Mike also conducted multiple in vivo mouse model experiments, including implementation of a technically challenging myeloma patient-derived xenograft model. In addition, Mike generated the firefly luciferase myeloma cell lines that we continue to use in xenograft experiments testing out new drug approaches to this disease. Mike joined the Hematology Clinical Trials Unit at our cancer center as a Clinical Research Coordinator prior to attending the Physician Assistant (PA) program at Colorado Mesa University.

Poster Presentation

American Society of Hematology Annual meeting, San Diego, 2018

Christophe Langouë-Astrie, MS

Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology Program

Christophe left the lab in May 2017 after completing his master degree program. During his time in our group, he created out initial bioinformatics pipeline for incorporation of publicly available data sets to validate and extend our bench work. In doing so, we helped with a collaborative project with Genentech to analyze the potential of targeting the unfolded protein response (UPR) in myeloma treatment. After completing his master’s degree, Christophe went on to join the Pharmacology PhD program at CU Anschutz.

Lab Outing Day 2017

Mount Bierstadt Summit, 14,065 feet

Andres Arriaga

Visiting High School Student through Denver STaRS Internship Program, Fall 2017

Lab Outing Day 2016

Matthews/Winters Trail at Red Rocks