Laboratory Members
Charles Sagerström, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Whitehead Institute/MIT
1993-1997
Ph.D., Immunology
Stanford University
1993
B.A., Biology
Macalester College
1987
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Whitehead Institute/MIT
1993-1997
Ph.D., Immunology
Stanford University
1993
B.A., Biology
Macalester College
1987
My research career started in college with an interest in Immunology that I pursued through graduate school. I was particularly interested in cell fate decisions among immune cells and this led me to carry out postdoctoral research studying embryonic development. I started my own research group at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1997, and in 2019 I relocated to the University of Colorado Medical School. My group has a long-standing interest in understanding how embryonic development is programmed at the level of gene expression. We primarily use zebrafish as a model organism and we apply genome-wide approaches to study transcriptional regulation in early embryogenesis.
Yong-ll Kim, Ph.D. instructor Ph.D., Microbiology Wonkwang University School of Medicine 2017 M.S., Biology Chungnam National University 2011 B.S., Biology Chungnam National University 2009 When I was an undergraduate student, I worked with a master’s degree student who was trying to generate a mutant line of zebrafish using insertional mutagenesis. After joining my master’s degree program, I worked on a project to characterize cells that form bone. I generated a bone-specific col10a1:GFP transgenic zebrafish. I joined my Ph.D. program and started working on my project that focused on the role of peroxisome-related genes during zebrafish development. During this time, I generated several alleles of zebrafish mutants and transgenic zebrafish related to peroxisome biology. Currently I work in the Sagerström lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. Here, my research focuses on investigating the role of hindbrain-related genes during zebrafish development. |
Cameron Bennett ph.d. candidate B.S., Genomics and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University 2021 While an undergraduate at Michigan State University, I had the opportunity to work in Dr. Ingo Braasch’s lab. My research focused on the functional analysis of the endothelin gene Edn4 in neural crest cells and their derivatives in zebrafish. I joined the Sagerström lab as a Ph.D. student in the Molecular Biology program in 2022, and my research focuses on investigating the role of Vgll3 in the transcriptional regulation of early embryonic hindbrain cell fate pathways. |
KAIA KINKEL Ph.D. Student B.S., Biomedical Sciences Amsterdam University College 2020 In my undergraduate studies I had the opportunity to intern with Dr. Maarseveen at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in the Netherlands where I worked on chiral rotaxane synthesis. After moving to Colorado in 2021, I became a professional research assistant with the Nakano Lab in the Pediatric Cardiology section of CU Anschutz. I worked on establishing cardiomyocyte cell lines for patients with single ventricle congenital heart defects using retroviral reprogramming and induced pluripotent stem cell techniques. During my time with this lab, I became fascinated with stem cells and embryonic development. I am now a graduate student with the Cellular, Stem Cells and Development (CSD) program at CU Anschutz and am honored to be joining the Sagerstöm Lab in their research on the transcriptional regulation of embryonic brain development. My research will more specifically focus on understanding the role of TALE transcription factors in embryonic neural circuit formation. |
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Katie Glowinski professional research assistant B.S., Biology Concordia University St. Paul 2021 In my undergrad at Concordia, I had the opportunity to work under and learn from Dr. Mandy Brosnahan and Dr. Taylor Mach in a study focused on S. aureus screening. After graduation, I began working in a Quality Control lab at Bio-Techne in Minneapolis, where I would perform a variety of assays to ensure product specifications for proteins and antibodies. I joined the Sagerström lab in September 2023, and am currently earning my master's in Genetic Counseling at Anschutz while continuing my work in the lab. |
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Lab Alumni Austin Adkins, Ph.D. Research Scientist | University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Heather Reichenbach, B.A. Clinical Research Coordinator | UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO Ethan Wright, M.Sc. Research Lab Supervisor | Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA Jelena Kresoja-Rakic, Ph.D. Scientist | ArtisanBio; Louisville, CO Jessica Warns, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor | Northern State University; Aberdeen, SD |
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