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MEET OUR TEAM

Vatsan Raman, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Bacteriology (Affiliate)
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Affiliate)
Member, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Member, Center for Genomic Science Innovation
sraman4@wisc.edu
Vatsan Raman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Before joining the UW, he was a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and Dr. George Church’s laboratory at the Harvard Medical School where he developed foundational technologies to engineer microbes using biosensors to sustainably produce fuels and chemicals. In his graduate work, he 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

Jackie Chen
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Max Frenkel
Graduate Student
MD-PhD program

Phil Huss
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Megan Leander
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

Yang Liu
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

Anthony Meger
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

Kyle Nishikawa
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

Chun Huai (Alex) Luo
Masters Student
Bacteriology

Ellie Austin
Research Technician

Erik Iverson
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry

David Salamzadeh
Undergraduate
Biochemistry
ALUMNI
Priti Shenoy Summer Intern Khorana Scholars Program, Pune University
2018
Nora Lelivelt Intern Sun Prairie High School Biotechnology Youth Apprenticeship Program
2016 - 2017 | Current Position: Undergraduate, University of California-Davis
Sindhu Yarlagadda Summer Intern Khorana Scholars Program Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
2016 | Current Position (2017): iB Hubs, India