Erik Serrano
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Erik Serrano is a Computational Bioscience (CPBS) PhD student at the University of Colorado Anschutz. He joined the Way Lab in July 2022, where he focused on developing software applications and new methods to analyze cell morphology readouts.
During his time in the lab, Erik became the first PhD student to graduate from the Way Lab in July 2026. He was first author on the Pycytominer paper, an image-based profiling review paper, and the Buscar preprint, and he contributed to the mAP-copairs and CytoTable papers. Along the way, he grew into a fully independent scientist.
Erik obtained his bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology with a minor in chemistry at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Throughout his undergraduate degree, he developed computational methods to elucidate biological insights from protein dynamics data produced by molecular dynamics simulations. After graduating from CSUN, Erik completed his post-baccalaureate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he designed viral-based nanoparticles using computational protein modeling. He also developed computational methods using gene expression data to identify potential alternative entry points for introducing the nanoparticles.
In his free time, Erik likes to learn different romance languages and their origins. He is fluent in Spanish and is currently learning Brazilian Portuguese, which will become his third language. Aside from learning languages, Erik also enjoys tech, music, reading, hiking, camping, longboarding, running, weightlifting, and dancing.
Erik is now pursuing a postdoc in image-based profiling.