News & Updates

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

January 2023

Arianne Theiss PhD became Associate Editor of Physiological Reports.