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Vatsan Raman, Ph.D

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Vatsan Raman is an Associate 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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Silas Miller

Graduate Student 

Cellular and Molecular Biology

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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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Chutikarn Chitboonthavisuk

Graduate Student 

Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

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Naia Novy

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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Suthara Ramachandran

Graduate Student 

Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Claire Schleicher

Undergraduate Student

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

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Evelyn Okal

Graduate Student 

Integrated Program in Biochemistry

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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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Declan Smith

Lab Member

TBD

Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows:

Phil Huss LinkedIn

Kelly Schwartz, Biovire LinkedIn

Shi Liu, Postdoc UW-Madison

Graduate students:

Jackie Chen

Dan Mitchell 

Sarah Schmidt-Dannert 

Saylor Strugar

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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Department of Biochemistry

371C HF DeLuca Biochemistry Laboratories Building

433 Babcock Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI – 53706

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