Christina M. Mailloux received her B.S. degree from Tufts University in biology in 2002. She subsequently went to work for the National Institutes of Health under a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA), where she engaged in research on mammalian genetics. Christina is currently pursuing her PhD in Human Medical Genetics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where she studies vitilgo and other associated disorders.

Greggory LaBerge, M.Sc. is the Commander and Director of the Denver Police Department Crime Laboratory, he is also affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - Human Medical Genetics Program as a Ph.D. candidate conducting statistical genetics research on autoimmune disease.