Vatsan Raman, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Bacteriology

​sraman4@wisc.edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Bacteriology, and a member of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Before joining the UW, I was a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and Dr. George Church’s laboratory at the Harvard Medical School. I worked on developing directed evolution methods for designing new proteins and engineering microbial biosynthetic pathways. In my graduate work, I developed computational methods in the Rosetta biomolecular modeling software suite for predicting protein structures at atomic-level accuracy, in the laboratory of Dr. David Baker at the University of Washington, Seattle

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk

Graduate Student, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

My research interests: Programming the host range of bacteriophages

Megan Leander

Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry

My research interests: Allostery, protein dynamics, functional characterization
of mutations, and Michigan basketball.

Yang Liu

Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry

My research interests: Biofuels, redox and pyruvate sensing and manipulation.

Anthony Meger

Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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My research interests: protein design, biomacromolecular structure/dynamics/function relationships, and novel applications of machine learning in computational biology.

Chun Huai (Alex) Luo

Graduate Student, Bacteriology

My research interests: synthetic biology approaches to change natural biological systems to programmable systems with useful applications.

Ellie Austin

Research Technician

Mikayla Fernholz

Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry

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Erik Iverson

Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry