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email: erik.serrano@cuanschutz.com
github: axiomcura
twitter: axiomcura
group: active
group: alum
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Erik Serrano is a Computational Bioscience (CPBS) PhD student at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus (CU-AMC).
He joined the Way Lab in July 2022, where he is focusing on developing software applications and new methods to analyze cell morphology readouts.
Before officially joining the Way lab, Erik kickstarted a software tool called [Cytopipe](https://github.com/WayScience/CytoPipe), which implements reproducible analytical pipelines for processing high-dimensional cell morphology readouts.
Erik Serrano is a Computational Bioscience (CPBS) PhD student at the University of Colorado Anschutz.
He joined the Way Lab in July 2022, where he focused on developing software applications and new methods to analyze cell morphology readouts.

Erik obtained his bachelors degree in Molecular Biology with a minor in chemistry at the [California State University, Northridge (CSUN)](https://www.csun.edu/).
Throughout his undergraduate degree, he developed computational methods to elucidate biological insights from protein dynamic data produced by molecular dynamics simulations.
After graduating from CSUN, Erik did his post baccalaureate at [Cedar-Sinai Medical Center](https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/research/departments-institutes/biomedical-sciences.html) where he designed viral based nano-particles through the usage of computational protein modeling.
In addition, he also developed computational methods using gene expression data to identify potential alternative entry points where the nano-particles can be introduced.
During his time in the lab, Erik became the first PhD student to graduate from the Way Lab in July 2026. He was first author on the Pycytominer paper, an image-based profiling review paper, and the Buscar preprint, and he contributed to the mAP-copairs and CytoTable papers. Along the way, he grew into a fully independent scientist.

In his free time, Erik likes to learn different romance languages and its origins.
Erik obtained his bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology with a minor in chemistry at [California State University, Northridge (CSUN)](https://www.csun.edu/).
Throughout his undergraduate degree, he developed computational methods to elucidate biological insights from protein dynamics data produced by molecular dynamics simulations.
After graduating from CSUN, Erik completed his post-baccalaureate at [Cedars-Sinai Medical Center](https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/research/departments-institutes/biomedical-sciences.html), where he designed viral-based nanoparticles using computational protein modeling.
He also developed computational methods using gene expression data to identify potential alternative entry points for introducing the nanoparticles.

In his free time, Erik likes to learn different romance languages and their origins.
He is fluent in Spanish and is currently learning Brazilian Portuguese, which will become his third language.
Aside from learning different languages, Erik also enjoys tech, music, reading, hiking, camping, long boarding, running, weight lifting and dancing.
Aside from learning languages, Erik also enjoys tech, music, reading, hiking, camping, longboarding, running, weightlifting, and dancing.

Erik is now pursuing a postdoc in image-based profiling.
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email: julia.curd@cuanschutz.edu
github: JaceyBronte
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Jacey graduated with B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Biology from Duke University, where she worked in Dr. Raluca Gordan’s lab on CRISPR and MutS.
In her senior thesis, she focused on the DNA binding specificity of MutS, the primary enzyme responsible for initiating mismatch repair, and possible associations with CRISPR Prime Editing technology, specifically in single base pair edits.

Jacey joined the Way Lab in July 2024, and is passionate about pediatric oncology research, with a focus on computational methods.
Jacey joined the Way Lab in July 2024 and left in July 2026.
During her time, she led the Data Analysis workstream on our Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation–funded project, optimizing Cell Painting conditions for our upcoming Pediatric Cancer Cell Morphology Atlas.
She was first author on a manuscript introducing Gene Process Dependencies, which are biological processes and protein complexes worth targeting to kill cancer cells.
Check out her manuscript here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688518v1

She was also the first in the lab to pilot our next-gen Cytomining workflows built on data warehouse technology, and she's passionate about pediatric oncology research with a focus on computational methods.

Jacey is now pursuing her PhD at St. Jude.

Outside of the lab, Jacey enjoys ballet, salsa, and line dancing, and also helps mentor a FIRST robotics team.