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Vatsan Raman, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Bacteriology (Affiliate)
Member, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Member, Center for Genomic Science Innovation
sraman4@wisc.edu
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry 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
Jackie Chen
Graduate Student, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk
Graduate Student, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
My research interests: Programming the host range of bacteriophages
Max Frenkel
Graduate Student, MD-PhD program
Phil Huss
Graduate Student, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
My research interests: establishing bacteriophage as a therapeutic and microbial community editing tool.
Megan Leander
Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry
My research interests: Allostery, protein dynamics, functional characterization
of mutations, and Michigan basketball.
Xiangyang Liu
Graduate Student, Biophysics
My research interests: Synthetic biology, creating genetic components for regulating various cellular processes.
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
My research interests: protein design, biomacromolecular structure/dynamics/function relationships, and novel applications of machine learning in computational biology.
Kyle Nishikawa
Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry
My research interests: Protein design, metabolic engineering, protein-ligand specificity, ancestral protein reconstruction, protein evolution.
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
Erik Iverson
Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry
David Salamzadeh
Undergraduate, Biochemistry
ALUMNI
Kelly Schwartz, Ph.D Postdoctoral Fellow
2016 - 2019 | Current Position: PPD Consulting
Delia Scoville, Graduate Student, Integrated Program in Biochemistry
2016 - 2019 | Current Position: J.D. UC Berkeley Haas Law School
Mikayla Fernholz, Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry
2018 - 2019 | Current Position: Ph.D student University of Southampton, UK
Nicholas Hoppe Research Technician University of Wisconsin-Madison
2015 - 2018 | Current Position: Ph.D, University of California, San Francisco
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
Hannah Lou Undergraduate Researcher BS - Biology, UW-Madison
2016 - 2017 | Current Position (2017): NIH IRTA Postbac at NHLBI
Sindhu Yarlagadda Summer Intern Khorana Scholars Program Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
2016 | Current Position (2017): iB Hubs, India