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
Jackie Chen
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
James Corban
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Max Frenkel
Graduate Student
MD-PhD program
Rebecca Back
Graduate Student
Genetics
Nathan Novy
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Sarah Schmidt-Dannert
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Thomas Gillis
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry
Hanyi Zhang
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry
Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Anthony Meger
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Phil Huss
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Silas Miller
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Evelyn Okal
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Tulika Sharan
Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry
Rongchen Liu
Undergraduate Student
Genetics
ALUMNI
Postdoctoral fellows:
Kelly Schwartz, Ph.D PPD Consulting
Shi Liu Postdoc UW-Madison
Graduate students:
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:
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
