News & Updates
April 2025
Grecia represented CU Anschutz at the 3-Minute Thesis Competition organized by the Western Assocation of Graduate Schools and The Colorado State-wide competition, where she placed 4th and became state champion, respectively. Congratulations! More information here!
April 2025
Congratulations to Grecia! She was awarded the Basic Science Travel Award by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) to attend the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025 conference, and the Werner and Kitty Hirs Travel Award by the University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus.
April 2025
Shriprada Tiketar, MSc. joined the lab as a Laboratory Services Professional. Welcome to the lab!!
April 2025
Congratulations to Zhantao! He was awarded the Anschutz Professional Award for travel!
May 2025
Arianne, Zhantao and Grecia attended Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025 held in San Diego, CA. Zhantao and Grecia presented their work as they were selected to give talks.
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April 2025
Arianne published a paper in the journal Physiological Reports!
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The title of her work is "Extracellular Vesicles Shaping Gastrointestinal Health and Disease." For more information about this exciting work, please check this link!
December 2024
Annual End of the Year celebration! We enjoyed Vietnamese food and exchange gifts.
December 2024
Zhantao was the recipient of the microgrant "Paneth cell produced IL-18 in shaping the gut microbiota during health and intestinal inflammation from Center for Mucosal Immunology in Rheumatic Disease (CMIR) Microgrants Program - (NIH P30 AR079369). Way to go!
March 2025
Arianne, Parsa and Thor published an article in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CMGH).
The title of their work is "Obese adipose tissue extracellular vesicles activate mitochondrial fatty acid ß-oxidation to drive colonic stemness." For more information about the article, follow this link!
October 2024
Another successful Halloween party with delicious food! Also, our youngest member enjoyed the candies!
December 2024
The University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus held the 3-Minute Thesis competition. Grecia won the 1st place and the People's Choice Award. She will represent the school on the regional competition next March! Check out the school's article: 3-Minute Thesis Competition
August 2024
PhD candidate Parsa Haque was awarded an F99/K00 Fellowship from NCI to study the colorectal cancer tumor microenvironment during obesity. Congratulations Parsa!
June - August 2024
The Theiss lab hosted Bhawana Paudel, a recent graduate from CU Boulder, as a part of the Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), University of Colorado Cancer Center.
July 2024
Our postdoc, Zhantao Yu, participated in the event "Postdoc Research Day: Becoming Agents of Change" at CU Anschutz with DO student Elena Reshetnikoff. Their poster entitled "Paneth Cell Derived IL-18 Rescues DSS-induced Colitis" was awarded second place in the Basic Sciences Poster Competition.
July 2024
Arianne Theiss was awarded the 2024 Raj and Prem Goyal Award Lectureship in Pathophysiology of Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease.
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This prestigious award is given by the American Physiological Society (APS). She will be a lecturer, with her lecture focused on the role of mitochondria in the intestinal epithelium in driving inflammation and central to the innate immunity of Paneth cells.
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To register for this event, follow this link: Webinar Registration - Zoom
May 2024
Grecia Rivera passed her Comprehensive Exam and became a PhD candidate for the Department of Immunology and Microbiology. She will continue her research focusing on the mitochondrial protein Prohibitin 1 and how it affects Salmonella Typhimurium in the GI tract.
May 2024
Our PhD candidate, Parsa Haque, published a first-author review in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology!!!
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Check her work here: Mitochondrial function and gastrointestinal diseases | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
October 2023
Our traditional lab Halloween party was a success!
October 2023
Grecia Rivera attended the 50th National Diversity in STEM conference in Portland, OR.
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Parsa Haque attended the AAEV 2023 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
October 2023
Zhantao Yu, PhD. joined the lab from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
September 2023
Grecia Rivera was awarded with the President’s Diversity Fund for Development and Support travel scholarship from CU Anschutz.
July 2023
Welcome to our new lab members! Grecia Rivera is a PhD student in the Microbiology Graduate program; and Desiree Goodman is our Laboratory Science Professional.
April 2023
Travis Mascarenhas' master internship presentation at CU Anschutz.
June - August 2023
The Theiss lab hosted Richard Drake from University of Hawaii at Manoa as a part of the Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), University of Colorado Cancer Center.
April 2023
Parsa Haque was awarded with the Steve Nordeen Travel Award, Cancer Biology Graduate Program, CU Anschutz.
April 2023
Arianne Theiss PhD was elected as Vice Chair/Chair-Elect of Cellular & Molecular Gastroenterology Section, American Gastroenterological Association Institute Council.
