Lab Members Current and Former

Current Lab Members

PI
Ashok Prasad
Associate Professor
Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and
School of Biomedical Engineering,
Colorado State University.

Rosaline Danzman

Rosi Danzman, Cell and Molecular Biology PhD Student, qCMB Fellow and VPR Fellow. Joined the lab in January 2023. Rosi works on cell morphology and its applications.

Soumik Ghosh

Chemical Engineering PhD student. Scott Fellow Spring 2023. Joined the lab in 2023. Works on computational modeling of cancer development.

Sydney Graul

Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Dual Major. Sydney works on cell and nuclear morphology and shape.

Alex Taylor (co-advised with Rachel Mueller)

Biology M.S. student. Alex works on mathematical modeling of the somitogenesis clock in salamanders.

Julia Vance

Chemical engineering Major. Julia works on image processing of cells for cell morphology and shape studies.

Mark Greenwood (co-advised with Ken Reardon)

Chemical Engineering PhD student. Mark works on developing an innovative modern cell-based biosensor for detecting estrogen disrupting chemicals in the environment.

Ethan Harrell

Chemical and biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Dual Major. Ethan has worked on modeling signaling in plants and in prostate cancer.

Former Graduate Students

Joshua Mannheimer

Joshua graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He did very cool work on data-driven modeling of cancer cell drug resistance, co-advised by Dr Prasad and Dr Daniel Gustafson. Joshua is currently a postdoc at the NIH.

Elaheh Alizadeh

Elaheh ran our experimental wet lab for many years and wrote many papers on predicting cellular phenotype from morphology. She graduated with a PhD from Chemical Engineering and did a postdoc at the University of Arizona. Currently she is a research scientist at Jackson Labs.

Wenlong Xu

Wenlong worked on retroactivity in synthetic switches, helped develop the first genetic toggle switch in plants and developed a method to assay cellular viscoelasticity. After his Chemical Engineering PhD and a postdoc at MIT, he is a research scientist at Biogen.

Samy Lyons

Samy graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering as well as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree. She worked on cell shape, synthetic biology, retroactivity and information theory.

Katherine Kiwimagi

Katherine graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. she worked on developing a protoplast assay for synthetic biology in plants, the synthetic genetic toggle switch and contributed to the cell shape and the cancer modeling projects. She is a postdoc at MIT.

Chintan Joshi

Chintan graduated with a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He worked on metabolic modeling using Flux Balance Analysis and similar techniques, with a focus on cyanobacteria. After graduation he was Keck postdoctoral fellow at UCSD.

Keira Havens

Keira graduated with a MS in Biology, and worked on mathematical modeling of synthetic biology circuits. Co-advised by June Medford.

Dustin Berger

Dustin earned an MS in Biomedical Engineering. He worked on osteoblast differentiation.

Former Undergraduate Lab Members

Sydney Alderfer

Sydney worked on experiments and machine learning projects on cell morphology.

Jiangyu Sun

Jiangyu did experiments on cell morphology and the scratch assay for cell migration.

Hannah Mabry

Hannah worked on developing a mathematical model of hormone signaling in plants.

Mary Skillikorn

Mary worked on metabolic modeling of photosynthetic organisms.

Connor Henderson

Connor did mathematical modeling of a cell-based Estrogen Disrupting Chemical (EDC) biosensor.

Daniel Hidalgo-Argote

Daniel worked on modeling the plant hormone system, metabolic modeling and modeling an EDC biosensor.

Sarah Easton

Sarah worked on a detailed review of cancer immunotherapy and a critical analysis of methods used to predict tumor immunogenecity.

Analia Quirk

Analia did experiments and data analysis of cell and nuclear morphologies.

Jordan Castle

For several years Jordan was one of the pillars of our experimental work on cell morphology.

Stephanie Mooty

Stephanie worked on image processing for cell morphology.

Cameron Taylor

Cameron worked on modeling the plant hormone network.

Kyle Hartson

Kyle developed agent-based simulations using the Netlogo platform for teaching science to middle-schoolers and high-schoolers as part of an NSF-funded outreach program.