Current Lab Members

PI: Norman Pace

Senior Personnel/Postdocs:

• Laura Baumgartner (laura.baumgartner@colorado.edu)
• Dan Frank (daniel.frank at colorado dot edu)
• Alexei Kazantsev (alexei.kazantsev@colorado.edu)
• Piret Koll (piret.koll@colorado.edu)
• Steven Marquez (marquezs@colorado.edu)

Affiliated Postdocs:

• Kirk Harris (jjharris@colorado.edu) -former PhD student, now a Research Instructor for the CU-Denver Health Sciences Center
• Jeffrey Walker (jeffrey.walker@colorado.edu) - former graduate student, current postdoc in the Gold Lab

Graduate students:

• Chuck Robertson (chuckr@colorado.edu)
• Kim Ross(Kimberly.Ross@colorado.edu)

Research Assistants:

• Sina Karimpour (sina.karimpour@colorado.edu)
• Kristen Peterson (kristen.peterson@colorado.edu)
• Leah Feazel (feazel@colorado.edu)

Administrative Assistant:

• Cheryl Rapp (rappc@colorado.edu)

Undergraduates:

• Mallory Chan (mallory.chan@colorado.edu)

Former Lab Members

Former Postdoctorates:

• Angelika Krivenko (krivenko@spot.colorado.edu)
• Donnie Evans (donald.evans@colorado.edu)
• Mary Ann DeGroote (mary.degroote@uchsc.edu) M.D., Colorado State University
• John Spear (jspear@mines.edu) Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• Ruth Ley (rley@molecool.wustl.edu) Postdoc at Washington University, St Louis
• Scott Kelley (skelley@sciences.sdsu.edu)Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
• Hazel Barton (mailto:bartonh@exchange.nku.edu) Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University
• Philip Hugenholtz(Phugenholtz@lbl.gov) DOE- Joint Genome Institute
• Chris Pitulle (cpitulle@nature.berkeley.edu)
• Brian Thomas (bcthomas@nature.berkeley.edu)
• Brett Goebel (goebel@nature.berkeley.edu)
• Mike Tanner (tannerm@nature.berkeley.edu)
• Michael Harris (meh2@pop.cwru.edu) / Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, school of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• James Nolan (jnolan@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu) / Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
• Anna-Louise Reysenbach (reysenbacha@pdx.edu) Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Portland State University
• Sean Turner(sturner@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu)
• Jim Brown (jwbrown@mbio.ncsu.edu) / Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Elizabeth Haas
• Gary Olsen (gary@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) / Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
• Drew Smith (desmith@shaman.nexagen.com)
• Mary Peterson
• Tom Walker
• Tom Schmidt (tschimdt@msu.edu) / Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
• Sylvia Darr
• Ed DeLong (delong@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu)
• Mitch Sogin (sogin@mbl.edu) / Director, Program in Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
• Bernadette Pace
• David Stahl (dastahl@u.washington.edu) Professor of Enviornmental and Civil Engineering, University of Washington
• Terry Marsh
• Roger Peterson
• Ford Doolittle (ford@is.dal.ca) / Director, CIAR Program in Evolutionary Biology, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Charles Radcliffe Denver Zoo, Denver, CO
• Bernd Meyhack

Former Graduate students:

• Jeffrey Walker (jeffrey.walker@colorado.edu)
• Kirk Harris (jjharris@colorado.edu)
• Amy Buck
• Scott Dawson (sdawson@nature.berkeley.edu)
• Jose de la Torre(jose3rd@u.washington.edu) University of Washington
• Jiunn-Liang Chen (jiuchen@jhmi.edu) Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University
• Bong-Kyeong Oh (ohb@kuccnx.korea.ac.kr) / Postdoc at Korea University
• Rob Siegel (rsiegel@indiana.edu)
• Sue Barns (sbarns@telomere.lanl.gov)
• Esther Angert (era23@cornell.edu) Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
• Gene Wickham (gene_wickham@bchm.biochem.duke.edu) / Postdoc at Duke University
• Tom LaGrandeur (lagrande@U.Arizona.edu) / Postdoc at Arizona University
• Alex Burgin
• Claudia Reich
• Dave Waugh (waughd@ncifcrf.gov) / Leader, Protein Engineering Group, Macromolecular Structure Laboratory, ABL-Basic Research Program, NCI Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, MD
• David Lane (dlane@hamiltonthorne.com) / VP of Biotech R&D, Hamilton Thorne Biosciences
• Katheleen Gardiner
• Gary Ludi

Former Technicians:

• Allison St.AMand
• Andrew Dalby (andrew.dalby@colorado.edu)
• Alex Poole (poole@rohan.sdsu.edu)/ Graduate student at San Diego State University
• Marissa Ehringer (marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu) / Assistant Professor at University of Colorado, Department of Integrated Physiology and Institute for Behavior Genetics
• MaryAnne Rubio Postdoc at Ohio State University
• Karen Zito (zito@cshl.edu) Postdoc at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Michael Dojka
• Catherine Adamidi

Former Undergraduates:

• Nicole Held - graduate student at Illinois
• Leah Feazel
• Josh Wilcox
• Megan Greening (megan.greening@colorado.edu)
• Alicia Berger (bergera@stanford.edu)/ Graduate Student at Stanford
• Elizabeth Nachtwey (laotsubliss@hotmail.com)

March 2008 :

-Lika leaves the lab for another position in the MCDB department

-Donnie leaves the lab to be a stay-at-home daddy

January 2007:

-Piret Koll arrives from Estonia to join the lab as a postdoc.

December 2006:

-MaryAnn DeGroote, MD, leaves the lab for a position at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins

June 2006:

- Technician Alli St.Amand leaves lab for job in the real world of industry

- Sina Karimpour joins the lab as a technician for RNase P research

May 2006:

- Nicole Held graduates with a BA from MCDB and is accepted to graduate school at the University of Indiana

- Kim Ross joins the lab as a PhD student

April 2006:

- Laura Baumgartner recieves her PhD from the University of Conneticut, takes postdoctoral position in the Pace Lab.

January 2006:

- Postdoc John Spear takes a position at the Colorado School of Mines as an Assistant Professor!

- Junior Technician Andrew Dalby leaves for job in the real world at Dharmacon

-Leah Feazel becomes new junior tech

December 2005:
-Leah Feazel graduates with BA summa cum laude from MCDB

-Stephanie Rapp graduates with BA from English

May 2005:

-Amy Buck awarded PhD, Thesis: "Protein Activation of the RNase P Ribozyme"

-Kirk Harris awarded PhD, Thesis: "Ribosomal RNA as a Phylogenetic Marker for Microbial Diversity in the Environment and in Human Health"

-Jeff Walker awarded PhD, Thesis: "Endolithic Microbial Ecosystems: Molecular Phylogenetic Composition, Ecology and Geobiology"

-Josh Wilcox graduates with BA magna cum laude from MCDB