Our Team

Dr. Douglas Seals
Laboratory Director
Dr. Douglas Seals is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He obtained B.S. degrees in Education and Business from William Jewell College, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Exercise and Applied physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and postdoctoral research training in Aging and Applied Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After an initial tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona, he moved his laboratory to the former Department of Kinesiology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1992, while creating the first-ever joint appointment by a campus faculty member in the CU School of Medicine (Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Cardiology).
Dr. Matthew Rossman
Associate Laboratory Director
Dr. Zachary Clayton
Assistant Laboratory Director for Preclinical Research
Dr. Daniel Craighead
Assistant Laboratory Director for Clinical Research
Melanie (Connell) Zigler
Laboratory Manager
Dr. Holden Hemingway
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Kevin Murray
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Yara Bernaldo de Quiros Miranda
Visiting Professor
Dr. Katelyn R. Ludwig
Senior Staff Scientist/Wet Laboratory Director
Abigail Longtine
PhD Candidate
Kaitlin Freeberg
PhD Candidate
Nathan Greenberg
PhD Candidate
Sophia Mahoney
PhD Student
Sanna Darvish
PhD Student
CeAnn Udovich
Masters Student
Jill Miyamoto-Ditmon
Senior Professional Research Assistant
Nick VanDongen
Senior Professional Research Assistant
Narissa McCarty
Professional Research Assistant
Emily Adam
Professional Research Assistant
McKinley Coppock
Professional Research Assistant
Ravi Venkatasubramanian
Professional Research Assistant
Gabrielle (“Elle”) Orie
Professional Research Assistant
Hannah Lally
Professional Research Assistant
Megan Facey
Professional Research Assistant
Ashley Darrah
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alumni (starting in 2023)
Grace Maurer – M.S. (2023)
Alex Lindquist – B.S. (2023)
Lucy Egan – B.S. (2023)
Macy Feign – B.S. (2023)