Additional Lab Staff

Livianna Myklebust
Currently: Post-baccalaureate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ricke Lab
Year in lab: 2019

Francesca Van
Currently: Quality Assurance Tester at Epic
Year in lab: 2019

Asha Jain
Currently: Undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Year in lab: 2019

Izak Walker
Currently: Urgent Care Technician at Bozeman Health
Year in lab: 2018

Katelin Cunningham
Currently: Grants Assistant at Columbia University
Year in lab: 2018, 2017

James Nelson
Year in lab: 2018, 2017

Adetola Coker
Currently: Incoming 1st year medical student at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Year in lab: 2017

Sarah Johnson
Year in lab: 2017

Andew Achenriener
Year in lab: 2016

Leema John
Currently: Senior Systems Engineer at Eli Lily and Company – Research and Development
Year in lab: 2016

Rochely Luna
Year in lab: 2015

Andy Vega
Currently: General Chemistry Tutor at the University of Puerto Rico Arecibo
Year in lab: 2015

Isaac Beaubrun
Year in lab: 2014

Jenny Vo
Currently: M.S. graduate student research at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Year in lab: 2014

Sophie Grutzner
Currently: Research technician, Liqun Luo Lab at Stanford University
Year in lab: 2011

Erik Faber
Currently: M.D./PhD student at the University of Minnesota
Year in lab: 2010

Gary Bo Liu
Years in lab: 2020 – present
Gary is a Biology major at UW-Madison and a graduate of the Biocore Honors Program. Within the Ricke lab, he is working to create 3D reconstructions of embryonic 18 (E18) mouse urogenital tracts (UGTs).

Kegan Skalitzky
Years in lab: 2020 – present
Kegan is working to update the Ricke lab’s numerous databases as well as keep up with general lab maintenance.

Riley Medenwald
Years in lab: 2019 – present
Riley is working in the Ricke lab to help quantify Void Spot Assays (VSAs).

Victor Dobak
Years in lab: 2019 – present
Victor is working in the Ricke lab to help with fixed UGT dissections and quantifying Void Spot Assays (VSAs). 

Asha Jain
Years in lab: 2019 – present
Asha completed a SPUUR internship in the Ricke lab in 2019 while she studied disease-related changes in cell-type composition in the mouse prostatic urethra. She returned in the Spring of 2020 to work with Dr. Popovics on studying the role of osteopontin in prostatic inflammation. she was awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison Sophomore Research Fellowship for her proposal entitled: “Investigating the Role of Inflammatory Molecule Ostepontin on Prostatic Fibrogenesis and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction.”