Lab News

October 22, 2026: Elle and Natalia had a great time attending the Ludeman Center National Conference on Women’s Health and Sex Differences in Colorado Springs. Natalia was also selected to receive a travel award and give a flash talk, in addition to presenting a poster!

September 3, 2026: Elle presents a research-in-progress talk at the Perinatal Research Center at CU Anschutz.

August 9, 2026: Ashlyn presents her work at the Molecular Mechanisms and Systemic Impacts in Mammalian Reproduction Gordon Research Conference in Newry, Maine.

July 27, 2026: Sarah begins her rotation with us. Welcome!

July 20, 2026: Ashlyn, Emily, and Natalia represent the lab and had a great time presenting posters at the Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN.

July 1, 2026: Lots of exciting updates: Emily Carnahan officially joins the lab as a graduate student co-mentored by Dr. Christopher Ng, Natalia was awarded a Physiology of Health and Human Disease T32 fellowship, and Elle was awarded a Translational Research Scholars Program grant! Huge congrats to all!

June 17, 2026: Natalia completes & passes her Comprehensive Exam and is now a PhD Candidate!

June 12, 2026: Elle was invited to give a talk at the Signaling by Adhesions Receptors Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire.

June 1, 2026: Aashvi begins her high school summer internship in the lab. Welcome!

January 26, 2026: Ashlyn receives her NOA on her NRSA F31 fellowship through NICHD. Congrats!

November 21, 2025: Elle presented as an invited speaker at the Cilia and Centrosomes Conference in Suzhou, China.

October 24, 2025: Ashlyn gives a talk at the CSD retreat and earns best student talk. Great job!

August 24, 2025: Emily Carnahan starts her rotation with us. Welcome!

August 15, 2025: The Roberson Lab wishes LeCaine and Elizabeth the best of luck as they begin their next adventure, graduate school!

July 23, 2025: The Roberson Lab got their first pilot grant funded by the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research!

June 24, 2025: Natalia Weinzierl officially joins the lab as a graduate student!

June 22, 2025: LeCaine and Elizabeth travel to San Juan, PR to represent the Roberson Lab at SDB. LeCaine gave a fantastic talk on uterine epithelium and junctional proteins across the estrous cycle!

April 8, 2025: Elizabeth Ung is awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship! Congratulations!

March 2025: Both Elizabeth Ung and LeCaine Barker accept graduate school offers! Congratulations!

February 24, 2025: Cristina Velasquez starts her rotation with us. Welcome!

December 1, 2024: Ashlyn Meinecke joins the lab as the first graduate student!

September 16, 2024: The Roberson Lab welcomes our new Post-doc, Ryan Finnerty!

August 27, 2024: Elle, Elizabeth, and LeCaine traveled for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting and had a joyous time. Elizabeth and LeCaine both gave awesome posters on their work!

August 26, 2024: Natalia Weinzierl starts her rotation with us. Welcome!

May 3, 2024: Elizabeth and LeCaine represented the Roberson Lab in Fort Collins, CO at the Rocky Mountain Reproductive Sciences Symposium.

March 3, 2024: The team had a blast at the southwest regional meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology (SWSDB), held here at CU Anschutz! Elle presented a talk as an invited speaker, and LeCaine and Elizabeth presented posters. Elizabeth was also awarded 1st place for best PRA/tech poster presentation - congrats!

February 27, 2024: Gabi Padilla starts her rotation with us. Welcome!

October 20, 2023: Elle’s postdoctoral work on the role of Hedgehog signaling in the adult cycling mouse uterus is officially published in iScience!

September 5, 2023: Wendy Zhang starts her rotation with us. The first of many for the Roberson Lab!

July 17, 2023: LeCaine Barker joins the lab as a Research Assistant. Welcome!

July 14, 2023: Elle presents her talk on how hedgehog signaling cyclically remodels the adult uterus at the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) in Ottawa, Canada.

July 5, 2023: Welcome to Elizabeth Ung, a Research Assistant in the Roberson Lab!

April 26, 2023: The pipettes have arrived in lab.

January 4, 2023: The Roberson Lab arrives at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus!