
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

Max Frenkel
Graduate Student
MD-PhD program

Silas Miller
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology

Evelyn Okal
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

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

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
ALUMNI
Postdoctoral fellows:
Kelly Schwartz, Ph.D PPD Consulting
Shi Liu Postdoc UW-Madison
Graduate students:
Anthony Meger Life Edit Therapeutics
Kyle Nishikawa Gilead Pharmaceuticals
Megan Leander Pfizer Inc
Xiangyang Liu McKinsey Inc
Delia Scoville J.D. UC Berkeley Law School
Undergraduates, Masters students and Technicians:
Panagiotis Drosos
Rongchen Liu Graduate student, University of Michigan
Hanyi Yang Graduate Student, Tsinghua University
Blake Zimmerman
Nicholas Hoppe Graduate student, UCSF
Chun Huai Luo Graduate student, Johns Hopkins
Ellie Austin Dental school, Marquette University
David Salamzadeh
Erik Iverson
Priti Shenoy Khorana Program, Pune University
Hannah Lou Med school, Marian Univ. Med. School
Nora Lelivelt University of California-Davis
Sindhu Yarlagadda Khorana Program, IIT-Madras, India
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
























