Denu Lab

John Denu, PhD

Credentials: Principal Investigator of the Denu Lab

Position title: Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry

Email: john.denu@wisc.edu

Graduate Students

Kevin Buck, MS

Position title: Chemistry

Jessica Han, MS

Position title: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Cassie Leech, MS

Position title: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Postdoctoral Scholars

Spencer Haws, PhD

Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Scientists & Staff

Eric Armstrong, MS

Position title: Researcher III

Sherry Bakhtiar, PhD

Position title: Scientist II

Ann Denu

Position title: Program Admin Specialist

Vyacheslav (Slava) Kuznetsov, PhD

Position title: Scientist I

Undergraduate Researchers

Audrey Catlin

Position title: Biochemistry

Olivia Peterson

Position title: Microbiology

Devin Schult

Position title: Biochemistry

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Alumni

Brittany Albaugh

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Kevin Arnold

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Program Officer at John Templeton Foundation, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

Ben Baeton

Position title: Undergraduate

Graduated with BS in Computer Sciences

Josue Baeza

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student

Investigator - Mass Spectrometry & Protein Characterization at GSK, Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Christopher Berndsen

Position title: Biomolecular Chemistry Graduate Student

Associate Professor at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Steven Bieser

Position title: Undergraduate

Medical Student - Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Melissa Boersma

Position title: Scientist

Director of the Mass Spectrometry Lab at Auburn University, Alabama

Julie Bolding

Position title: Visiting Ph.D. Student

Senior Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners, København, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Margie Borra-Garske

Position title: Biomolecular Chemistry Graduate Student

Associate Director, Head of Biochemistry at Codexis, Inc., Redwood City, California

Laura Borth

Position title: Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student

Policy Associate at Matz, Blancato and Associates Inc., Washington DC

Lindsay Comstock

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Associate Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Rush Dhillon

Position title: Assistant Scientist

Cartoonist in Vancouver, British Colombia

Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Hope College, Holland, Michigan

James Dowell

Position title: Associate Scientist

Scientific Director at Immuto Scientific, Madison, Wisconsin

Jing Fan

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Morgridge Investigator at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jessica Feldman

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student

Group Leader of Process Sciences at LakePharma, Inc., Worcester, MA

Clark Fjeld

Position title: Graduate Student

Manager of Assay Development Clinical Trial Assays at ICON Specialty Labs (formerly MolecularMD), Portland, Oregon

Adam Garske

Position title: Graduate Student

Principal Scientist I at Mammoth Biosciences, Brisbane, California

Casey Hallows

Position title: Biomolecular Chemistry Graduate Student

Associate Director at Codexis, Inc., San Mateo, California

Michael Jackson

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Research Scientist at OHSU Vollum Institute, Portland, Oregon

Youngjoo Kim

Position title: Graduate Student

Assistant Professor at SUNY College at Old Westbury Laboratory, New York

Mark Klein

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Research Scientist 4, R&D - Promega, Madison WI

Erin Kolonko

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Siena College, Albany, New York

Kimberly Krautkramer

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student (MSTP)

General Surgery Intern (PGY1) at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Alexis Lawton

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student

Scientist at Immuto Scientific, Madison, Wisconsin

Jin-Hee Lee

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Senior Research Scientist & Technical Project Manager at Pharmaceutical Product Development, Madison, Wisconsin

Susan Lee

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Senior Scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Morgan Lentz

Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Medical Student at UW-Madison

Anastasia Lindahl

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Scientist - Geltor, San Leandro, CA

Wallace Liu

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Scientist at Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California

Anusha Mehendale

Position title: Research Intern

Masters Student, Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Lily Miller

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student

Scientist, Large Molecule Discovery @ Lilly Oncology

Robert Miner

Position title: Research Assistant

Graduate Student in the Binning Lab at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida

Pragyan Mishra

Education Integrated M.Sc., Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Ph.D., Infection Epigenetics, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Advisor: Rahul Modak, Ph.D.

José Moran

Position title: Biomolecular Chemistry

IPiB, Graduate Student

Sam Oliver

Position title: Graduate Student, IPiB

Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Colorado, Boulder

Yiming (Amy) Qin

Position title: Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student

Dietetic Intern at UC Berkeley & Stanford Health Care, California

Nicole Rademacher

Position title: Undergraduate

Researcher in the Shelef Lab at the UW Department of Medicine

Louise Rafty

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Scientist at Genentech, South San Francisco, California

Keighley Reisenauer

Position title: Undergraduate

Graduate student at Baylor University, Department of Biology

Sara Slager

Position title: Genetics and Genomics

Attending Medical School in 2024

Michael Smallegan

Position title: Associate Programmer Analyst

PhD Candidate in Computational Molecular Biology at University of Colorado, Boulder

Brian Smith

Position title: Chemistry Graduate Student

Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Zhangli Su

Position title: Graduate Student, CMB

K99 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Dutta Lab at the University of Alabama-Birmingham

Kirk Tanner

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Chief Scientific Officer at National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS), Newton, Massachusetts

Julie Thelen

Position title: Undergraduate

Emergency Department and Trauma Unit at Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee

Sydney Thomas

Position title: CMB Graduate Student

Postdoctoral Scholar in Pieter Dorrenstein's Lab, University of California, San Diego

Lei Tong

Position title: Biomolecular Chemistry Graduate Student

Staff Segment Marketing Manager, Oncology Testing and Cancer Research at Illumina, Singapore

Elise Wagner

Position title: IPiB Graduate Student

Vice President of Laboratory Operations at Labcorp, Raritan, New Jersey

Logan Wright

Position title: Research Assistant

Xiaoji Xu

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Research Scientist at Unilever Research & Development, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Wei Yu

Position title: Postdoctoral scholar

Investigator at Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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