

Dr. Sara Sawyer
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
HOMETOWN: Olathe, Kansas
PhD: Cornell University
INTERESTING FACT: My first career was working on offshore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

Vanessa Bauer
LEAD SCIENTIST, HIV PROJECTS
HOMETOWN: Des Moines, Iowa
MS: Cornell University
INTERESTING FACT: I received a gold medal in snowshoe racing at the Empire State Games (NY).

Will Fattor
LAB MANAGER
HOMETOWN: Black Hawk, Colorado
B.S. DEGREE: University of Colorado Boulder
INTERESTING FACT: I am licensed to sail monohull boats.

Camille Paige
HUMAN STUDIES COORDINATOR
HOMETOWN: Littleton, Colorado
B.S. DEGREE: University of Colorado Boulder
INTERESTING FACT: I’ve trained over 800 people in CPR.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Dr. Cody Warren
HOMETOWN: Fountain Valley, California
DEGREES: PhD @ U. Colorado Medical School; Masters of Public Health @ UC Berkeley
INTERESTING FACT: I used to play college baseball.
NIH HIV Postdoctoral Training Fellow,
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Arturo Barbachano-Guerrero
HOMETOWN: Torreón, México
DEGREES: PhD @ SUNY Upstate; MSc @ National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
INTERESTING FACT: I used to capture wild sea lions and howler monkeys for research on microbiology.
Graduate Students

Qing Yang
HOMETOWN: Shanghai, China
B.S. DEGREE: University of Minnesota
INTERESTING FACT: I was stepped on by an elephant when I was 5.

Obaiah Dirasantha
HOMETOWN: Somasila village, India
B.S. DEGREE: Indian Institute of Technology
INTERESTING FACT: I like to sketch human faces

Sharon Wu
HOMETOWN: Foster City, California
B.S. DEGREE: MIT
INTERESTING FACT: I used to be a lucid dreamer and could fully control my dreams every night.

Emma Worden-Sapper
HOMETOWN: Boulder, CO
B.S. DEGREE: University of Colorado Boulder
INTERESTING FACT: I once crocheted a model bacteriophage.

Paul Gendler
Hometown: Foster City, California
B.S. Degree: University of California, Santa Barbara
Interesting Fact: I once grew an 8 foot tree from an avocado pit
Undergraduates

Sam Chappell
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
B.S. Degree: University of Colorado, Boulder
Interesting Fact: I once biked 135 miles from San Francisco to Aspen through the Rocky Mountains in 2 days.

Dani Swope
Hometown: Longmont, Colorado
Major: MCDB with minors in classics and philosophy
Interesting Fact: I taught a virtual cooking class during the pandemic, and still record some videos in my spare time
Lab Alumni
Nick Meyerson, Ph.D.
CEO, Darwin BioSciences
Kyle Clark
Scientist, Darwin BioSciences
Alex Stabell, M.D. Ph.D.
Medical resident (Infectious Disease), Columbia University
Emily Feldman, Ph.D.
Scientist, Inscripta
Jeff Hussmann, Ph.D.
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF
Kyudong Han, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dankook University, South Korea
Alysia East, D.V.M.
Veterinarian, Austin, TX
Ross McBee, Ph.D.
PhD, Columbia University
Chief Scientific Officer, TOMTEX
Joe Timpona, Ph.D.
Scientist, Stealth NewCo
Alison Gilchrist, Ph.D.
Research scientist, Raabe lab @ NYU Langone School of Medicine
Maryska Kaczmarek, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, EcoHealth Alliance
Scott Kerr, Ph.D.
Global Product Manager, BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT
Paul Rowley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Idaho
Dianne Lou, M.D. Ph.D.
Medical resident (Anesthesiology), Vanderbilt University
Ann Demogines, Ph.D.
Senior Director, BioFire Diagnostics
Elena Judd
PhD Student, U. Washington Seattle