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.
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