News

Welcome, Alberto Alarcon! He is joining the lab as a Ph.D. student in the Biological Sciences program, specifically in Microbiology.

Goodbye, Jocelyn ! She graduated with her B.Sc. in Biochemistry in May and will be matriculating into the Biophysics Ph.D. program at UC San Francisco.

Congratulations, Amber and Carmina! They were accepted to be REU interns through the NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution from June to August of 2025.

Congratulations, Jessica Grifaldo! She won second place in her division at the UNLV Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum!

Congratulations, Amber Callaway! She was awarded Best Poster Presentation in Health & Natural Sciences & Engineering at the UNLV OUR Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Congratulations, Zoe Strasser! She received a poster presentation award at the 64th Annual Branch Meeting of the Arizona and Southern Nevada Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.

Congratulations, Zoe Strasser and Valerie Perez! They received research funding via the NSF EPSCoR UROP Academic Year 2025-2026 Scholarship.

Welcome, Syntia Lemba and Alexandra Guillen! They were awarded spring semester funding from the SNNA-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Program and will be hosted by our lab during the Spring 2025 semester.

Welcome, Angeline Roldan! She was awarded spring semester funding from the SNNA-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Program and will be hosted by our lab during the Spring 2025 semester.

Congratulations, Amber Callaway! She received a poster award at the 2024 ABRCMS conference in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology division for juniors. We are very proud of Amber!

Robleto lab members present their summer research at 2024 ABRCMS in Pittsburgh, PA! Pat on the back to Valerie, Khristian, Amber, and Jocelyn.

Congratulations, Jessica Grifaldo! She successfully passed her qualifying exams and is now a Ph.D. candidate! We are so proud of you!

Congratulations, Valerie Perez! She was awarded fall semester funding from the SNNA-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Program.

Welcome, new LSAMP-mentees! We’re happy to host Zoe Strasser, Marvin Gomez Mejia, and Marcus Troy Dizon as part of the Fall 2024 SNNA-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Program.

Dr. Robleto and Gabriel attend the Nevada INBRE statewide annual meeting in Reno, NV.

Congratulations, Khristian! He was awarded the NSF EPSCOR 2148788 “RII Track-1: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science”. We are so proud of you!

Congratulations, Valerie and Elena! They were accepted to be REU interns through the NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution from June to August of 2024.

Congratulations, Amber! She accepted an offer to be an REU intern at the University of Washington as part of their Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine from June to August of 2024.

Congratulations and farewell, Ryan! He accepted his offer to participate in the PREP at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He begins in July!

Congratulations, Jocelyn! She accepted an offer to be an intern as part of the UCSF Summer Research Training Program (SRTP) for the summer of 2024!

Congratulations, Carmina! She will be returning to the McGuire Lab this summer at the University of Idaho through the INBRE RAIN Fellowship Award.

Congratulations, Gabriel! He was awarded the fellowship, ASM Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship, and will attend the 2024 ASM Microbe in Atlanta, GA.

Congratulations, Carmina and Jocelyn! They were awarded funding through SNNA-LSAMP as part of their Undergraduate Research (UGR) program.

Congratulations, Carmina! She was awarded a presentation award at the SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in Portland, OR.

Jocelyn, Carmina, Khristian, Amber and Ryan all attend and present at the SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in Portland, OR.

Hilda leaves the lab to begin a new postdoctoral research fellow position with the Pedraza Lab at the Institute of Biotechnology at UNAM in Cuernavaca, Morelos.

Elena and Valerie join the lab!

Gabriel Strong-Lundquist and Sam Schauf join the lab as graduate students.

Jessica and Hilda attend ASM Microbe where they presented the amazing research happening in the Robleto Lab!

The lab attends the Wind River Prokaryotic Biology Conference in Colorado.

Jocelyn leaves us for the summer to be a Rosetta Commons intern at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with the Khmelinskaia Lab.

Carmina leaves us for the summer because she is awarded the Idaho INBRE RAIN Fellowship Award and interns in the McGuire Lab at the University of Idaho.

Ryan and Khristian are interns in the Robleto Lab through the NSF REU: Mechanisms of Evolution.

Congratulations, Hilda! She was awarded the ASM Peggy Cotter Travel Award to attend 2023 ASM Microbe.

Ryan K. Perez joins the lab.

Jessica is awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP award!

Amber, Merika, Gabie, and Nicole join the lab!

Khristian and Carmina join the lab after Jessica scouts them from the BIOL 207: Phage Discovery course at UNLV.

Jessica begins her Ph.D. in the Robleto Lab!

Anastasia Yulo joins the lab for one month as a visiting undergraduate researcher from UCLA.

The lab goes to the Colorado Wind River Prokaryotic Biology Conference!

Jocelyn joins the lab as an intern through the UNLV NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution.

Dr. Hilda Cecilia Leyva-Sanchez joins the lab as a post-doctoral research fellow.

Carmen is awarded one of three NYU Langone Health Scholar to Faculty Program Fellowships.

Carmen graduated from UNLV after successfully defending her dissertation.

Jessica Grifaldo and Ethan Curran join the lab as interns for the UNLV NSF REU Site: Mechanisms of Evolution.

Holly begins her postdoc with the SF Veteran Affairs Medical Center/UCSF.

Tatiana successfully defends her thesis and graduates.

Holly successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation and graduates in May.

Robert joins the lab as a M.Sc. student!

A lot happened 🙂

The lab begins to form.

Dr. Robleto is hired and starts Microbiology within the School of Life Sciences at UNLV.