
Meet our Team

Vatsan Raman, Ph.D
SC Fang Endowed Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Bacteriology (Affiliate)
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Affiliate)
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

Dan Mitchell
Graduate Student
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
Alumni
Postdoctoral fellows:
Phil Huss Ph.D, Tabula Bio LinkedIn
Kelly Schwartz, Biovire LinkedIn
Shi Liu Postdoc UW-Madison
Graduate students:
Max Frenkle, Resident: UCLA
Anthony Meger, Life Edit Therapeutics LinkedIn
Kyle Nishikawa, Gilead Pharmaceuticals LinkedIn
Megan Leander, Pfizer Inc LinkedIn
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 LinkedIn
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

Rebecca Back
Graduate Student
Genetics

Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Phil Huss
Graduate Student
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Naia 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









