Selmecki Lab

Anna Selmecki, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
University of Minnesota
Medical School

Postdoc, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and  Harvard Medical School, Cell Biology and Evolution

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology and Genetics

​​B.A., College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Chemistry

Robert Todd, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
​
Ph.D. Creighton University, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

M.S. ​​University of Iowa, Integrated Biology Program

B.S. Iowa State University, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Serin Edwin Erayil, M.D.

Fellowship, Infectious Diseases: University of Minnesota Medical School (2018 - Present)

Residency: Loyola Medicine MacNeal Hospital, Chicago

MBBS: St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India
Photo coming soon

Taylor Crooks

Ph.D. Candidate, MICaB

​B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ​Molecular and Cellular Biology

Natthapon (Mew) Soisangwan

​Ph.D. Candidate, BICB

B.S. Macalester College, Computational Biology
Dalton Piotter

Undergraduate Researcher
​McNair Scholar
Downtown Minneapolis, January 2021

Selmecki Lab Alums

Bailey Kemp
Research Technician
​
​B.A. UMN Morris
Annette Beach
Research Technician, CU and UMN
​
B.A. Brandeis University
Selmecki lab Members from 2015-2019 (May 2019)

June 2017

Nate Brown
Awesome IT support
RaDLab, CU
Tara Erickson
​Undergraduate Researcher, CU
Noah Keime
Undergraduate Researcher, CU
Alec Harrington
CURAS Ambassador,
​Ferlic Scholar,
Undergraduate Researcher, CU

Alison Guyer
​INBRE Fellow,
CURAS Fellow,
Undergraduate Researcher at CU,
Research Technician,
B.A. Creighton University
Ann Braverman
CURAS Fellow
Undergraduate Researcher,
CU
Shilpa Nair
CURAS Fellow
Ferlic Scholar,
Undergraduate Researcher, CU
Tyler Wikoff
CURAS Fellow,
​Ferlic Scholar,
Undergraduate Researcher, CU
Ruby Labausa
Class of 2019
RaDLab Intern, CU
Computer Science & Informatics Major
President of the Computer Science Club 
Stephen Yang
Class of 2019
RaDLab Intern, CU
Computer Science & Informatics Major
Nimi Virk
​Class of 2021
Undergraduate
​Researcher, CU
Tyler Rollman
​Class of 2020
Nebraska INBRE
Undergraduate
​Researcher, CU
Curtis Focht
Research Technician - ​Bioinformatics
B.A. Creighton University
Robert Thomas
​2015-2017
​Research Technician - Bioinformatics
B.A.  College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Biology

Kim Fischer, Ph.D.
2015-2016
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Creighton University Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Patrick Rin
2015-2016
Undergraduate Researcher, CU 
Maximo Guerrero
2017
Undergraduate
​Researcher, CU
Jorge Moreno
​2017 Summer
Undergraduate Researcher, CU
Nels Carlson
2017
Undergraduate
Computer Science
​Researcher, CU
The lab lab.

​Lab Fun

First Omaha Yeast Club - with guest Jason Stajich - March 2018
Disc Doctors v2017
Creighton University Holiday Reception December 2016

2017

Robert (Bobby) Thomas' last day in lab - he's off to graduate school at UNMC!  Good Luck Bobby!
Saturday Coding Party! Pizza required. 
Winter storm. School cancelled. Chili party! Feb 2017

2016

Dr. Selmecki presented at the International Conference on Polyploidy, Hybridization, and Biodiversity in Rovinj, Croatia, Spring 2016
Lab retreat - snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park after the Rocky Mt. Yeast Meeting in Fort Collins, CO, Spring 2016
One-year anniversary celebration at Creighton! Our grad students rock!

2015

Ph.D. students from Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department study the importance of yeast biology and genetics, Summer 2015
Our lab started the Disc Doctors ultimate frisbee team for students and faculty, Fall 2015