September 2025 – Both Emma and Ryan did fantastic jobs presenting their posters covering their summer work at the undergraduate research symposium at Mines. In fact, Emma won FIRST PLACE overall for her poster! Well done!
April 2025- Our current lab group with Blaster the Burro
April 2025 – Congratulations to Elise on her poster presentation at Society for Biomaterials in Chicago!
September 2024 – Congratulations to Elise on a great first oral presentation at a conference! She presented on our biomaterials for growth plate regeneration work, and gave an amazing talk!
December 2023 – Congratulations to Bikram at his graduation!
December 2023 – Congratulations to Bikram for being the QBE finalist for the Rath Award for most impactful PhD thesis!
November 2023 – Many congratulations to Bikram, or shall I say Dr. Adhikari, for successfully defending his thesis! Another amazing Ph.D. student graduating with many accolades, excited to see where Bikram heads next! (I am keeping him for one more semester though, as a postdoc!)
Summer 2023 – Bikram did a phenomenal job mentoring Dr. Candace McGregor from Denver Public Schools in our NSF Research for Teachers summer program! We were so honored to have Candace join our team for the summer.
May 2023 – Such an honor to be involved with graduation for Alex and Michael, and to be able to hood Michael. Congratulations to both of you!
April 2023 – The Krebs Lab PhD students had a fantastic trip to San Diego for the Annual Society for Biomaterials meeting! Great job on your presentations, Michael and Bikram!
April 2023 – Congratulations Alexandra Raichart, M.S.! Fantastic job with your thesis defense!
April 2023 – Congratulations Dr. Michael Stager, Ph.D.! What an incredible 4 years with 7+ publications already. Great defense today, and I know you are heading on to more great things!
Spring 2023 – Congratulations to Prasanga on a great poster presentation covering his research at Mines!
April 2023 – Melissa attended Society for Advancement of Wound Care / Wound Healing Society annual meeting. She caught up with academic colleagues, met with other companies, and spent some time at GelSana’s table as well.
March 2023 – Melissa was awarded the Women of Mines Leadership Award for faculty.
March 2023 – The Krebs Lab had 3 posters at Rocky Mountain Biomaterials Day. Congratulations to Alex, Bikram, and Michael on their poster presentations – they did wonderfully!
September 2022 – Melissa attended Diabetic Foot Conference (DFCon), met with clinicians and academic researchers, and helped man our first booth for GelSana.
August 2022 – The Krebs Lab PhD students are ON FIRE folks! (I am one lucky advisor, let me tell you.) Michael and Bikram were both selected as 2022 DARPA Risers. They presented a poster to 5 judges, 30 minutes per judge = 2.5 hours straight of presenting their work. All DARPA Risers were scored during this competition, and the top 5 got to present a short oral presentation in front of the entire audience. Michael made it to the top 5. So proud of both of them!
May 2022 – Congratulations to Bikram for an awesome presentation at ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) Annual Meeting!
April 2022 – Many well earned congratulations for Bikram today in being awarded Distinctive Graduate Student in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering Research Award! So, so proud of all that you have already and continue to accomplish!
April 2022 – Congratulations to our undergraduates Alex and Prasanga on their awesome poster presentations at the Mines Undergraduate Research Symposium!
March 2022 – Melissa Krebs, presenting a pitch for her startup GelSana, won 1st place in the Open Division at University of Northern Colorado Montfort College of Business Entrepreneurial Challenge!
October 2021 – Melissa Krebs, presenting a pitch for her startup GelSana, won the Innovation Showcase pitch competition at Colorado Bioscience Association’s Innovation Forward Forum and Awards Celebration!
May 2021 – Congratulations to Katie on the successful defense of her M.S. thesis! She did a great job defending her thesis today, and we are very proud of all she accomplished.
April 2021 – Congratulations to Michael, PhD Candidate! Every ounce of celebration is well deserved!
Spring 2021 – Almost one year into the pandemic and still meeting on zoom! Our latest group photo.
Summer 2020 – Teamwork during a pandemic. This photo was taken pre-pandemic but just a shout out to these three amazing students in particular, Michael, Matt, and Bikram, that have helped maintain productivity and sanity in such a crazy time for research. Matt has moved on to another lab for his postdoc but continues to help us out when we call. Couldn’t do any of this without my amazing students, all of them!
April 2020 – Ben successfully defends his M.S. thesis via Zoom! Congratulations Ben!
February 2020 – Bikram and Michael representing the Krebs lab at the CSM poster session for prospective graduate students!
December 2019 – Matt’s graduation ceremony – congratulations Dr. Osmond! So proud of your many achievements and I know they are only just beginning!
September 2019. Our current lab group!
July 2019. Congratulations to Dr. Matt Osmond, Ph.D.!
June 2019. We all had fun at a BBQ at Prof. Krebs house, although the rain chased us inside! (Tanner was there too but we forgot to take a group photo before he left!)
June 2019. Happy summer! The Krebs lab is getting an influx of new students, and we kicked it off with a lunch in Golden to celebrate our new lab members plus Matt’s recent publication! Stopped to get a picture by our campus burros.
May 2019. Congratulations Matt for another great presentation at an international conference, ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) in Vancouver!
Job well done to our undergraduates who presented their research at CSM’s first annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Congratulations to Nathan Fletcher, Ph.D.!
Jackie, Matt, and Melissa working on novel dental fillings!
Congratulations to Ryan on graduating with his M.S. in Chemistry!
Spring 2016 Group Photo
Congratulations to Sarah on graduating with her M.S. in Chemical Engineering!
Krebs lab group, Spring 2015
TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society) Conference, December 2014
with Eben Alsberg’s lab members
Lab BBQ, July 2014
Research Experience for Pre-Collegiate Students (REPS) program, June 2014
Bowling June 2014
Lab Photo Summer 2013
Summer 2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Academies Mountain West Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology
Fall 2012 Melissa with Lyndsey and Hailey, high school interns
Krebs Research Group 