Smith Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Katharine Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
katharine.r.smith@ucdenver.edu
Education: PhD- University College London, MSci- Imperial College London
Home town: London, UK
Favorite Colorado activities: Hiking, skiing, breweries, chatting about synapses!
Graduate Students
Theresa Welle
June 2019 - Present
Neuroscience Graduate Student
Education: Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology & Chemistry – University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Home town: Urbana, IL
Favorite Colorado activities: Running, hiking and playing with cat!
Sarah Wolfe
June 2021 - Present
Neuroscience Graduate Student
Education: Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology from Towson University
Home town: Joppa, MD
Favorite Colorado activities: Hiking, yoga, and museums!
Amber Stewart
June 2022 - Present
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Education: Bachelor of Science in Honors Chemistry from Towson University
Home town: Glen Burnie, MD
Favorite Colorado activities: Skiing, dispersed camping and tubing the rivers!
Professional Research Assistant
Sara Gookin
May 2017 - Present
Education: Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering - Michigan Technological University
Home town: Byron, MI
Favorite Colorado activities: Hiking, skiing and hanging out with kiddos!
Research Associate
Kevin C Crosby, Ph.D.
2017 - Present
Education: Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2008; Postdoc, University of Amsterdam 2009-2013
Home town: New York City, NY
Favorite Colorado activities: Quarantined computational data analysis.
Alumni
Joshua Garcia, PhD
May 2017 - May 2023
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow in Kevin Bender’s Lab at UCSF
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Education: Bachelor of Science in Biology - University of New Mexico
Home town: Mora, NM
Favorite Colorado activities: Snowboarding, hiking and road trips.
Matthew Taylor, PhD
August 2020 - July 2021
Currently: Instructor of Anatomy/Physiology at the College of Eastern Idaho.
Education: PhD in Neurobiology - University of Utah, BS in Biology - San Diego State University
Home town: Idaho Falls, ID
Favorite Colorado activities: snowboarding, running, fishing, talking about brains!
Dipen Rajgor, PhD
March 2018 - November 2020
Currently: Senior Researcher at Oxford Nano Imaging (Oxford, UK)
Education: PhD - King’s College London , Undergrad - University College London
Home town: London, England,
Favorite Colorado activities: Hiking, Breweries, Skiing (Newbie), Tanning in the sun, not having to wear a rain coat, and of course science!