- PhD program in BMCDB, UC Davis (Titus Brown lab)
- NSF GRFP Fellow, UC Davis NIH Preparation Fellow, IMSD
- T32 Training Program in MCB
- Fellow, UC Davis Professors for the Future 2024-2025 Cohort
Colton Baumler graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Biology, BA in Chemistry, minor in Mathematics, and honors in research from Concordia University, St. Paul, in December 2018. In the Arsuaga-Vazquez lab at UC Davis, he studied the roles of symmetry and topology on DNA and examined the knotting of dsDNA as it is packaged in a P4 bacteriophage’s capsid to answer questions of how DNA organization, placement, and interactions take place within confined spaces. Colton also is working in Rachael Bay’s evolutionary genomics lab to study genomic differences in thermal tolerance in corals.
Current position: PhD program in BMCDB, UC Davis, with funding from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the UC Davis NIH Undergraduate Preparation Fellowship, and IMSD.