Post-Doctoral:
Chris Arian
Dr. Arian is a postdoc in Jessica Young’s lab in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on utilizing human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) derived neurons and cortical organoids to assess the impact of perturbing signature aging genes’ expression on cell function. Aging genes were identified…
Joe Armstrong
Dr. Armstrong is a postdoc in Maitreya Dunham’s lab in the department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. His research focuses on using baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and modified continuous culture systems known as aging chemostats to evolve yeast cells to extend replicative lifespan. In the wild, there is little evolutionary pressure to…
Shyleen Frost
Dr. Frost is currently as a postdoctoral fellow in the Kane lab. She is studying epigenetic patterns, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, and their relationship with frailty and sex differences in aging. This builds upon her thesis work completed in the Heinrich Lab at the University of California, Riverside, which was rooted in unraveling…
Cristina Gildee
Dr. Gildee is a postdoctoral fellow in the Primate Evolutionary Biomechanics Lab (PEBL) in the Department of Anthropology. Her work examines how reproductive history, cellular aging, and inflammation influence bone remodeling and aging. By combining large-scale epidemiological datasets with biomechanical modeling and biomarker analysis, she aims to clarify the mechanisms of skeletal adaptation and aging…
Bradley Ruple
Bradley Ruple is a postdoctoral scholar in the Translational Bioenergetics Lab, training under David Marcinek. His research focuses on the molecular and physiological adaptations to exercise and nutritional interventions, with particular interest in skeletal muscle aging, mitochondrial dynamics, and cardiovascular health. Using a combination of clinical and translational approaches, he investigates how targeted interventions can…
Liza Severs
Dr. Severs is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Aakanksha Singhvi, in the Basic Sciences Department at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. She is interested in studying how glia communicate with neurons to impact behavior, and how this changes with age. Specifically, Dr. Severs is examining how sense-organ glia in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans…
Pre-Doctoral:
Ellen Bakotich
Ellen Bakotich is a Neuroscience PhD candidate in the Buffalo Lab, studying the neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive aging. Her thesis work investigates how normative aging affects eye movement behaviors in aged non-human primates viewing natural images. Ellen’s research aims to understand how aging influences recognition memory and eye movement viewing behaviors. This work has important…
Chris Hsu
Chris Hsu is a PhD student in the MacCoss lab in the Department of Genome Sciences. He uses proteomics and mass spectrometry to study glomerular aging in the kidney. His work aims to identify protein signatures of aging and provide a model for exploring biological heterogeneity in the kidney.
Josiah Quinn
Josiah Quinn is a Neuroscience PhD student in the Gillespie Lab. He studies the neural correlates of cognitive decline in normal aging. His research involves evaluating hippocampal activity patterns in young and old rats performing a flexible spatial navigation task that requires cognitive flexibility.
Emily Teets
Emily is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Aakanksha Singhvi. Emily studies the effect of disease-relevant genes on glia-neuron interactions. They use C. elegans as a model organism to study the mechanism behind the glial engulfment of the thermosensory neuron, the AFD.
Sarah Tomlin
Sarah Tomlin is a graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Ph.D. program, conducting her thesis research in the Lehrbach Lab within the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutch. Her research utilizes genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology techniques in the model organism C. elegans to investigate the fundamental mechanisms by which cells regulate protein degradation.…
