Our Team
Meet the researchers driving our scientific discoveries
Principal Investigator
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Ed Lau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also a faculty member of the Integrated Physiology, Pharmacology & Molecular Medicine, and Cell, Stem Cell & Development PhD programs on campus. Ed received his BA degree in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley and PhD in proteomics at UCLA. Following postdoctoral research at Stanford, He joined the University of Colorado as a faculty in 2020.
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Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr. Juber earned his MS in Exercise Physiology from Florida Atlantic University in 2018, followed by a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Molecular Medicine) from the University of Iowa. Outside of the lab, he enjoys tinkering with recipes spanning from bread-making to meat-smoking and everything in between.
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Calvin received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Outside of science, he enjoys dabbling in a number of hobbies (Book binding, leather crafting, sewing), learning new skills, and having a hot cup of coffee in the early mornings!
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Graduate Students
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Lorena Alamillo is a PhD student in the Pharmacology program. Her research focuses on method development to examine subcellular protein localization, protein synthesis, and protein clearance over time. Using this methodology, she explores sequential responses to progressing ER stress.
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Jay Pavelka is a 4th year PhD student in Integrated Physiology. Their research explores the long-range communication between the heart and adipose tissues in the body, and how comorbidities of metabolic dysfunction affects cardiac health.
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Research Staff
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Thalia is a Laboratory Science Professional in our lab. She received her Bachelor's degree in Mary Baldwin University in 2025.
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Peyton Schaal is a life science research professional in the lab. She earned her Bachelor's degree at CU Boulder in 2024. Her project investigates the post-transcriptional control of protein level during human iPSC differentiation.
Mascot
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Bob is a sleepy, snorty pitty mix. You will often find him sleeping wherever the sun can be found, curled up on a blanket, or attempting to shake someone down for their apple slices.
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Ginkgo is a happy cocker spaniel. She likes to hike in the Colorado mountains. She is perpetually hungry.
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Beepy is a tortoiseshell cat. She likes chasing toys, stretching, and lots of attention.
Alumni
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Aidan performed his Master's degree research in the Biosciences and Biotechnology program along with his certificate in Biomedical Data Science in our lab.
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Jordan performed his Master's degree research in the Biosciences and Biotechnology program in our lab. He is now a PhD student at the University of Michigan.
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Veronica performed her Master's research at the University of Colorado BSBT-GEN program in our lab. She is now an Associate Scientist at Catalent Pharma.
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Nikhitha worked in our lab during her undergraduate study at the University of Colorado Denver majoring in biology. Her work was supported by the University of Colorado MARC U-STAR scholarship.
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Vyshnavi performed her Master's degree research in the BSBT program in our lab. She is currently a senior LSRP in the Department of Immunology at CU Anschutz.
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Himangi performed her Postdoctoral research in our lab where she used machine learning and network models to examine transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulations of protein abundance. She is now a Research Fellow at MSKCC.