{"id":380,"date":"2021-03-08T18:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:15:37","slug":"current-and-previous-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/current-and-previous-members\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ackerson Lab and Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_1579-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August 2024: Lab reunion and group retreat in Breckenridge, Colorado.<br>Pictured (generally left-right): (back) Rachel, Matt, Alex H, Chris, Christian, James, Wil, Ricky, Collin, Scott, Phillip, Ian, (middle) Kanda, Marcus, Meg, Gavin, Eli, Addison (hiding), Alex K, (front) Michelle, Bradley, Taylor, Courtney, MaKayla, Tony, Cynthia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-351770ed-050b-4cd8-9b36-3b5dc48b0d8a\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Current Ackerson Lab Members<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/addison-bralick\/\">Addison Bralick<\/a> (PhD Candidate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/rachel-cohen\/\">Rachel Cohen<\/a> (PhD Candidate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/gavin-mcewen\/\">Gavin McEwen<\/a> (PhD Candidate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tony Tien (PhD Candidate, BME)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/taylor-tomalinas\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/taylor-tomalinas\/\">Taylor Tomalinas<\/a>, M.S. (PhD Candidate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/makayla-walker\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/makayla-walker\/\">MaKayla Walker<\/a> (PhD Candidate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/bradley-guillams\/\">Bradley F. Guilliams, PhD<\/a> (Postdoctoral Scientist)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/dr-marcus-tofanelli\/\">Marcus A. Tofanelli, PhD<\/a> (Research Scientist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Alumni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Group-Pic-Breck-2023-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August 2023: Mini-reunion and group retreat in Breckenridge, Colorado.<br>Back row (L to R): Chris Ackerson, Christian Collins, Wil Biddle, Collin Perry, James Armstrong<br>Middle row (L to R): Alex Hendricks, Meg Ackerson, Courtney Solomon, MaKayla Walker, Tony Tien, Audrey Alspach, Addison Bralick, Gavin McEwen<br>Front row (L to R): Bradley Guilliams, Marcus Tofanelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c0f3e1e8-d25a-4f1d-bf54-959a9b8d8e26\">Postdocs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Christine Heinecke &#8211; Assistant Professor, Loyola University New Orleans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. O. Andrea Wong &#8211; Group Lead &#8211; Millipore Sigma<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Ryan Riskowski &#8211; Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-a38f865c-67b3-401b-a3cf-910ee1a19a71\">Visiting Scientists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Kirsi Salorinne &#8211; Associate, Neste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Lucian Staicu &#8211; Principal Investigator, University of Warsaw<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Stefan Knoppe &#8211; Agilent Technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Hiroyuki Naoi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e5324560-5c47-4f21-8215-06bf7f182e86\">Graduate students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Thomas Ni &#8211; Scientist, Merck<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruthanne McCoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Tvedte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Marcus Tofanelli &#8211; Research Scientist, Ackerson Lab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Scott Compel &#8211; Founder and CEO, AEMS Inc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aly Main &#8211; Leonardo Museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Tim Dreier &#8211; Postdoc &#8211; Sandia National Laboratories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Christian Collins &#8211; Science Tutoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Ricky Nemeth &#8211; Enzymologist, Watchmaker Genomics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Chris Hosier &#8211; Postdoctoral Researcher, Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Zach Butz &#8211; Immunoassay Development Scientist &#8211; Zepto Life Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Luiza Knittel &#8211; Postdoctoral Researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Phillip Window &#8211; Research Technologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. James Armstrong &#8211; Thin Film Engineer, Spark Ionx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Kanda Borgognoni &#8211; Postdoctoral Researcher, NIH<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Ian Anderson &#8211; Catalyst Chemist, Plug Power<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Alex Hendricks &#8211; R&amp;D Lead, Strategic Market Research, AEMS Corp.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Collin Perry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Courtney Solomon &#8211; PhD Student at University of Wyoming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olivia McGowan &#8211; Pursuing Law School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-83fe5c1a-d1f9-458f-beff-17c60096831d\">Undergraduates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mackenzie Neubert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tyler Calvino &#8211; Chemical Process Engineer, Worley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billy Phillips &#8211; Design Engineer at Ratio Eleven Technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Josh Nordstrom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Crawford &#8211; Metrology Engineer at Excelitas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Erik Knudson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lisa Windom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Seligman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mengmeng Fang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connor Neu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tata Zhu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skylar Hinckley &#8211; Dental School<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hao Fan &#8211; Brandeis Univ, PhD program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Peppercorn &#8211; Compounders International Analytical Lab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caroline McPhillips<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paige Liao<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Audrey Alspach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Ackerson Lab Members Alumni Postdocs Visiting Scientists Graduate students Undergraduates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}