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Vatsan Raman, Ph.D

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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

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Rebecca Back

Graduate Student 

Genetics

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Tulika Sharan

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Keelin Reilly

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Dan Mitchell

Graduate Student 

Cellular and Molecular Biology Program

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Silas Miller

Graduate Student 

Cellular and Molecular Biology

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Sophia Ulmer

Graduate Student 

Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk

Graduate Student 

Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

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Naia Novy

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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James Corban

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Jonah O'Mara Schwartz

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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

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Rebecca Back

Graduate Student 
Genetics

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Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk

Graduate Student 
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

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Phil Huss

Graduate Student 
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

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Naia Novy

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Jonah O'Mara Schwartz

Graduate Student
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Suthara Ramachandran

Graduate Student
Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Tulika Sharan

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Sophia Ulmer

Graduate Student 
Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Matthew Yang

Undergraduate Student 
Biochemistry

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Chris Macdonald

Visiting Scientist

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Jackie Chen

Graduate Student 
Cellular and Molecular Biology Program

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James Corban

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Silas Miller

Graduate Student 
Cellular and Molecular Biology

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Evelyn Okal

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Keelin Reilly

Graduate Student
I
ntegrated Program in Biochemistry

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Sarah Schmidt-Dannert

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Saylor Strugar

Graduate Student 
Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Thomas Gillis

Undergraduate Student 
Biochemistry

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Claire Schleicher

Undergraduate Student 
Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry

371C HF DeLuca Biochemistry Laboratories Building

433 Babcock Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI – 53706

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