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Krystal Ortaleza

Krystal is a post-doctoral fellow in the Terskikh Lab. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and recently completed her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. work focused on the design of an artificial pancreas for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes.  Her current work in the Terskikh Lab focuses on the design and evaluation of a device for single cell imaging of epigenetic landscapes. This device will be used to study the impact of various perturbations on the epigenetic landscapes of different cell types including fibroblasts and iPSCs.

Josue Lopez

Josue completed his MS in Cellular Biology and PhD in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Iowa. His research focused on axonal growth, regeneration, and mechanosensation, utilizing in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo models to understand the function of calcium-binding protein 1 (CaBP1) in the peripheral nervous system. As a postdoctoral fellow in the neuroscience department at The University of Texas at Austin, he stablished Caldendrin as repressor of PIEZO2 channels and touch sensation in mice. Currently as postdoctoral fellow working on image-based chromatin and epigenetic age (ImAge) in different cell types that include human iPSC, mammalian cell lines, and mouse primary cells, to answer questions related to cell differentiation, lineage tracing and metabolism.