Alan Elder Email & Phone Number

Aurora, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Benjamin Bitler in the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology. My project focuses on immunosuppression and anoikis resistance in ovarian cancer.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Aurora, CO

• The Borges Lab works studies post-partum breast cancer using clinical samples to identify key biomarkers that contribute to the poor prognosis observed in post-partum women. Additionally, Dr. Borges has many ongoing.
• Drafting and updating research protocols and amendments
• Consenting healthy volunteers and breast cancer patients for clinical research studies
• Responsible for updating and organizing patient information in Excel, REDCap, OnCore, and EPIC software
• Performing blood draws on research participants

Aurora, CO

• The Lyons Lab focuses on post-partum mammary gland involution, specifically how this tissue remodeling process contributes to the promotion and progression of breast cancer. My project focuses primarily on the protein.
• Responsible for lab animal management including ordering, breeding programs, maintaining transgenic mouse colonies, and in vivo experiments
• Performing extensive in vitro assays in the fields of immunohistochemistry, genomics, tissue culture, flow cytometry, and biochemical assays
• Writing, presenting, and generating data for scientific manuscripts and grants, as well as aiding in numerous scientific collaborations on site and nationally
• Managing and training new graduate students, interns, and fellowship students
• Managing daily laboratory logistics, such as inventory and ordering, organizing study data, keeping budgets for numerous purchasing speed-types, and organizing meetings

Portland, Oregon

• The Schedin Lab was one of the first to establish that breast cancer in women diagnosed 0-5 years after giving birth is associated with poorer prognosis than in women that have never been pregnant. During my time in.
• Analyzed and streamlined data into comprehensive study summaries and data files, allowing for the next steps to be taken for various projects
• Deciphered the role of Omega-3 fatty acids and COX-2 inhibitors in breast cancer treatment by performing in vitro and in vivo studies
• Managed daily laboratory specifics such as lab ordering, organizing study data for presentations and spreadsheets, and keeping budgets for numerous purchasing speed-types

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Dr. Mathison is 1 of 5 principal investigators that run the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University. The Mathiason Lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms of how covert prion transmission occurs, in.
• Developed a method of detecting prion diseases in the blood of infected deer and hamsters during clinical and subclinical disease and determined the time at which prions enter the blood following various inoculation.
• Surveyed different tissue samples from multiple species to determine disease prevalence
• Conducted in vivo experiments on multiple species including mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, cats, and deer
• Wrote manuscripts and presented data at multiple national and international meetings

Help students understand and apply concepts relating to the fields of medical bacteriology and virology.

• The focus of my undergraduate capstone work in the Mathiason Lab was to harvest all tissues from Reeve’s muntjac deer and determine the presence of both the native prion protein and the infectious isoforms.
• Performed extensive, full-tissue, necropsies on white-tailed and Reeve’s muntjac deer
• Performed tissue digestion and subsequent RNA and protein analysis to determine which tissues are susceptible to prion infection, thus identifying which tissues are potentially infectious for either consumption or.
• Gathered data for manuscripts and grants for the lab
• Presented our work in poster and oral format at conferences

Master’S Of Science, Microbiology, Immunology, And Pathology

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Bachelor’S Of Science, Microbiology, Immunology, And Pathology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Omega, Campus Crusade

Bachelor’S Of Science, Biology; Human Anatomy And Physiology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Omega, Campus Crusade