Dr. Thomas Sanger

I received my Ph.D. in 2008 from Washington University in St. Louis and began at Loyola University Chicago in 2016. I am committed to advancing the professional development of all my lab members. Everyone’s lab experience is personalized based on their career goals, whether aimed at developing the skills for academia, education, industry, or medicine. I encourage students interested in our research areas to contact me if interested in joining the lab.

Find my CV here.

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Graduate Students

Joshua Mata

Josh is a master's student in the Sanger lab. He is interested in looking at the morphological differences in hand and feet bones among Anolis and their relatives. He is hoping to gain experience in using museum specimens in research to further develop his museum collections skills.

 

Lab Technicians

Greta Keller

Greta is a graduate of Loyola, and spent her undergraduate years studying a myriad of projects in the Sanger Lab including: craniofacial development, embryogenesis of gecko toe pads, and limb development. She is currently studying the factors that allow for the development of hemigenitalia in squamates using the model system Anolis sagrei.

 

Alexandra Apostolopoulos

Alexandra is studying the development of Anolis sagrei lizards by creating a staging series. She is doing this by creating 3D models using microCT scanning and rendering in VGStudios.

 

Undergraduate students

Mehr Brar

Mehr is currently looking into the craniofacial development of anoles. She wants to gain a deeper insight into what signaling pathways can affect how cartilage develops in these reptiles!

Allie Edwards

Allie is a senior at Loyola, studying skull morphology of different species within Anolis utilizing a microCT scanner.

Sofia Leanos

Sofia cares for the corn snake colony in the lab and analyzes various signlaing pathway knockdowns for their effect on the cartilage development of anole embryos.

Natasha Olivares

Natasha is studying the role of Hedgehog signaling on craniofacial cartilage development with histological and molecular analysis.

Kamran Tejumola

Kamran is most interested in the way in which incubation temperatures (and heat stress) affects the development of reptilian embryos and juveniles.

Alina Mathew

Alina’s project will focus on mapping the development of genitalia in anoles. This will then allow us to find evolutionary similarities and differences among amniotes in regard to genitalia development.  

This could be you!

Are you interested in joining the lab? If so, please review the research we are doing to make sure that it aligns with your interests. After that, contact me directly at tsanger@luc.edu.

Lab Alumni

Sylvia Nunez

Michelle Hajduk

Arlisse Lim

Patricia Chen

Gannon Cottone

Laura Harding

Sarah Alcantara

Rui Shah

Alyssa Carlson

Tyler Jensen

Samuel Jaros

Alexandrea Turnquist

Ameer Odeh

Laura Krance

Judith Kyrkos

Dryden Lachance

Brigid Janos

Adriana Saliceti Galarza

GiHo Jeong

Xavier Rosas

Seerat Dhindsa

Jillian Schuberth

Alyson Reese

Nicholas Sedlacek

Brittni Walker

Clara Fix

Hannah Maher

Naaz Khan

John Resener

former masters students

Lilian Arnaoudoff

Katherine Starr

Former Lab Technician

Beata Czesny

Former post doc

Marta Marchini