Assistant Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry, Bacteriology and Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Stanford University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Ryan Clark
Research Associate (Postdoc), Genome Sciences Postdoctoral Traineeship
B.S. Ohio State
Ph.D.University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Prediction and Design of Functional Microbial Communities
Yu-Yu Cheng
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. National Taiwan University
Ph.D. Rice University
Interests: Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities
Jun Feng
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ph.D Nankai University
Interests: Next-generation microbial therapeutics, design of microbial consortia for biomanufactering
Freeman Lan
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. University of Toronto
Ph.D University of California San Francisco
Interests: Top-down approaches for studying horizontal gene transfer in complex microbial communities
Erin Ostrem Loss
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. University of Iowa
Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Ecological stability in the gut microbiome
Yili Qian
Research Associate (Postdoc)
B.S. Purdue University
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Synthetic biology approaches to controlling microbiomes
Bryce Connors
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Rhode Island
Interests: Controllability, stability and functional landscapes of microbial consortia
Sonali Gupta
Graduate Student, Biophysics
B.S. New College of Florida
NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Program
Interests: Spatiotemporal behaviors of microbial communities
Madeline Hayes
Graduate student, Microbiology
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Design of microbial communities for bioenergy applications, resistance to invasion by pathogens
Susan Hromada
Graduate Student, Microbiology
B.S. Calvin College
NIH Biotechnology Training Program
Interests: Resilience of microbiomes to invasion by pathogens and antibiotics
Yiyi Liu
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. University of Minnesota
Interests: In situ engineering of microbiomes
Wenbo Lu
Graduate student, Biochemistry
B.S. University of Washington
Interests: Synthetic biology and computational modeling of metabolic pathways and microbial communities
Jaron Thompson
Graduate student, Chemical & Biological Engineering
B.S. Colorado State University
Interests: Data driven models to guide microbial community engineering and experimental design
Jin Wen Tan
Masters student, Bacteriology
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: High-throughput methods to study microbial interaction networks
Tyler Ross
Research Intern
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Single-cell behaviors using tools from machine learning
Zhengyi Chen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Engineering bacteria to sense environmental signals
Undergraduate student,
Biochemistry and Computer Science
Sarah Ertmer
Undergraduate student,
Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Environmental control of complex communities
Alumni
Ryan H Hsu - UC San Diego M.D./Ph.D.
Xinyun (Sherry) Cao - Postdoc, Landick Lab (UW-Madison)
Joshua Hamilton - Federation Bio
