Assistant Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry, Bacteriology and Chemical and Biological Engineering
B.S. Stanford University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
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
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 Clark - Nimble Therapeutics
Jin Wen Tan
Ryan H Hsu - UC San Diego M.D./Ph.D.
Xinyun (Sherry) Cao - Postdoc, Landick Lab (UW-Madison)
Joshua Hamilton - Federation Bio
