Dylan Sarbaugh

Originally from Boulder, CO, Dylan enlisted in the US Navy for 6 years as an Aircrewman Mechanical, flying and working on the P-3 Orion aircraft. Afterwards he received a B.S. in Biotechnology from The City College of New York in 2017. While in school he worked as a research technician in the lab of Dr. Linda Spatz, looking at the interaction between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Following graduation, he moved back to Colorado and started as a research technician in the lab of Dr. Lori Sussel, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, helping to understand the transcriptional networks that govern pancreatic endocrine cell development both normally and in the context of diseases, such as diabetes. In 2019, he joined the molecular biology PhD program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and went back to the Sussel lab to perform his graduate work looking at a chromatin remodeler protein, CHD4, and how it affects the transcriptional regulation of pancreatic beta cells. After successfully defending his thesis project, he has joined the Hill lab to help understand how gut microbes affect pancreatic beta cells in human models such as human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), human islet organoids and primary human pancreas islets.