Denu Lab

John Denu

Credentials: Principal Investigator of the Denu Lab

Position title: Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry

Email: john.denu@wisc.edu

Graduate Students

Jessica Han

Position title: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Cassie Leech

Position title: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Scientists & Staff

Eric Armstrong

Position title: Researcher III

Sherry Bakhtiar

Position title: Scientist II

Ann Denu

Position title: Program Admin Specialist

Vyacheslav (Slava) Kuznetsov

Position title: Scientist I

Undergraduate Researchers

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: Biomolecular Chemistry

iPiB Graduate Student

Robert Miner

Position title: Research Assistant

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

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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