MEET OUR TEAM
Vatsan Raman, Ph.D
Associate 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
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
Rebecca Back
Graduate Student
Genetics
Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Phil Huss
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Nathan Novy
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Jonah O'Mara Schwartz
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Suthara Ramachandran
Graduate Student
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tulika Sharan
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Sophia Ulmer
Graduate Student
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Matthew Yang
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry
Chris Macdonald
Visiting Scientist
Jackie Chen
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
James Corban
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Silas Miller
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Evelyn Okal
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Keelin Reilly
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Sarah Schmidt-Dannert
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Saylor Strugar
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Thomas Gillis
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry
Claire Schleicher
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry
JOIN US
We are looking for talented postdoctoral fellows. We are a young, energetic and growing lab. If you are a highly motivated individual interested in synthetic and systems biology, we would love to have you work with us!
We recruit graduate students through the following programs:
We are also involved in the Quantitative Biology Initiative that offers a Quantitative Biology Doctoral Minor.
We encourage talented undergraduates interested in our research to contact Dr. Vatsan Raman: 608-890-1036 | sraman4@wisc.edu