Graduate Students
| Name | Year Graduated | Last Known Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Bruckner | Ph.D. 1987 | Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Julie Senecoff | Ph.D. 1987 | Program Director, Allied Health Transfer, Manor College, Jenkintown, PA | |
| Scott Morrical | Ph.D. 1987 | Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT | |
| Brian Schutte | Ph.D. 1988 | Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, East Lansing, MI 48824 | |
| Leslie Meyer-Leon | Ph.D. 1989 | President, IP Legal Strategies Group P.C., Centerville, MA | |
| Janet Lindsley | Ph.D. 1989 | Professor of Biochemistry and Addjunct Professor of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| Scott Umlauf | Ph.D. 1990 | Director Immunology and Analytical Testing, VaxInnate Corporation | |
| Jongwon Lee | Ph.D. 1990 | Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Republic of Korea | |
| Wendy Bedale | Ph.D. 1992 | Science Writer, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | |
| Li-chun Huang | Ph.D. 1992 | Product Development at Tessa Therapeutics Pte Ltd | |
| Sarita Jain | Ph.D. 1994 | Vice President, Business Development at Coherus Biosciences, Redwood City, CA | |
| Xiao-hong Qian | Ph.D. 1995 | President, Certified GeneTool, Inc, Pleasanton CA | |
| Lisa Iype | Ph.D. 1995 | Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA | |
| Kerry MacFarland | Ph.D. 1996 | Professor, Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry, Fort Collins, CO | |
| Paul Marrione | Ph.D. 1996 | Product Development Scientist, Medical Device Risk, Exact Sciences Middleton, WI | |
| Qun Shan | Ph.D. 1996 | Richard Q. Shan, Owner, Quintarabio, Albany, CA Quintarabio.com | |
| Alberto Roca | Ph.D. 1997 | SACNAS - Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science | |
| Leslie Waite | Ph.D. 1997 | Senior Clinical Trainer, Genentech, USA, San Francisco Bay Area | |
| Brian Webb | Ph.D. 1997 | R&D Platform Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, IL and Adjunct Instructor, Molecular Biology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford, IL | |
| Julie (Bork) Schultz | Ph.D. 1998 | Research Professional, DHHS/NIH/NIDCD/DIR/LMG/SHG | |
| Tanya Arenson | Ph.D. 1998 | Registered Patent Agent, Casimir Jones, S.C., Middleton, WI | |
| Kevin Rice | Ph.D. 2000 | Associate Professor, Colby College, Department of Chemistry, Waterville, ME | |
| Shelley Lusetti | Ph.D. 2001 | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM | |
| Aimee Eggler | Ph.D. 2002 | Associate Professor, Biochemistry Program Villanova University , Villanova, PA | |
| Mara-Eliza Robu | Ph.D. 2002 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613 | |
| Julie Eggington McLachlan | Ph.D. 2006 | President & CEO at Center for Genomic Interpretation, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| Julia Drees | Ph.D. 2006 | Scientific Director of Chemistry, Kaiser Permanente, Regional Laboratory, San Francisco Bay Area | |
| Michael Hobbs | Ph.D. 2006 | Associate Direcctor, Operational Excellence, Illumina, Madison, WI | |
| Julia Cox | Ph.D. 2007 | Senior Patent Agent, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Madison, WI | |
| Dennis Harris | Ph.D. 2007 | Associate Director, Content Strategy and Outcomes, The Endocrine Society, Washington, DC | |
| Rachel Britt | Ph.D. 2010 | Health Specialist and Communications Director, Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), NIH, Washington, DC | |
| Vessela (Petrova) Ensberg | Ph.D. 2010 | Associate Director Data Architecture, Data and Digital Scholarship Department, Shields Library, UC Davis, Davis, CA | |
| Marielle Eichhorn-Gruenig | Ph.D. 2010 | Study Director/Lab Head, Synlab Pharma Institute, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Audrey Klingele | Ph.D 2011 | Quality Engineer, LGC, Biosearch Technologies, Middleton, WI | |
| Asher Page | Ph.D. 2012 | Director, Business Development, Cullinan Oncology, Boston, MA | |
| Khanh Ngo (Courtney) | Ph.D. 2012 | Project Director of Biological Chemistry, Avomeen, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Rose Byrne-Nash | Ph.D. 2013 | Scientist, InDevR, Inc., Boulder, CO | |
| Angela (Manlick) Gruber | Ph.D. 2014 | Scientist, PreventionGenetics, Marshfield, WI | |
| TaeJin Kim | Ph.D. 2015 | Senior Scientist, Altria, Richmond, VA | |
| Erin (Ronayne) Hinson | Ph.D. 2015 | Manager of the Manufacturing/Laboratory Automation Group, Illumina, San Diego, CA | |
| Tyler Stanage | Ph.D. 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Boulton lab, The Francis Crick Institute, London, England | |
| Steven Bruckbauer | Ph.D. 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University, Bisson Lab | |
| Zachary Romero | Ph.D. 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ | |
| Kanika Jain | Ph.D. 2021 | Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Carolina University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina | |
| Miguel Angel Osorio Garcia | Ph.D. 2022 | ||
| Nina Jocic Bonde | Ph.D. 2023 |
Postdoctoral Fellows
| Name | Dates with Lab | Last Known Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandra Neuendorf | 1983-1985 | Retired, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Department of Chemistry, Oshkosh, WI 54901 | |
| Cynthia Gates | 1986-1988 | Associate Director, Medical Writing at Biogen, Cambridge, MA | |
| B. Franklin Pugh | 1987-1988 | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA | |
| Jong-Il Kim | 1985-1993 | Professor, Seoul Woman's University, Department of Applied Microbiology, Seoul, Korea | |
| Sergei Saveliev | 1992-2004 | R&D Project Leader, Promega Corporation, Madison, WI | |
| Koichiro Ishimori | 1993-1994 | Professor, Faculty of Science, Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan | |
| Jong-Moon Kim | 1999-2002 | ||
| Nami Haruta | 2002-2004 | Laboratory of Developmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan | |
| Dmitry Baytin | 2005-2007 | Molecular Genetics Lab, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300 Russia | |
| Akiko Sakai | 2007-2009 | Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology, Niigata University, Japan | |
| Cedric Norais | 2008-2011 | Manager, Promega PETAL, France | |
| Stefanie Chen | 2012-2016 | Assistant Teaching Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC | |
| Takeshi Shinohara | 2019- | ||
| Camille Henry | 2017-2022 |
Support Staff
| Name | Dates with Lab | Last Known Position |
|---|---|---|
| Carol C Pfeffer | May 1993 - March 2021 | University Services Associate 2 |
| Sindhu Chitteni-Pattu | 2000 - March 2022 | Associate Researcher |
| Camille Henry | 2022 - 2023 | Research Associate |
| Elizabeth A Wood | 1984 - January 2024 | Senior Research Specialist |
Undergraduates
| Name | Year Graduated | Last Known Position |
|---|---|---|
| Michael J. Modica | 2002 | MD, Radiology, Saint Alphonsus, Boise, ID |
| April Jean Schumacher | 2003 | Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT |
| Jeffrey John Shaw | 2003 | Senior Research Scientist, Promega Madison, WI |
| Hamza Guend | 2004 | MD, TriHealth Surgical Institute |
| Lena Ho | 2004 | Assistant Professor, Duke, NUS Medical School, Singapore |
| Hyunji Ryu | 2004 | Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| Simona Rosu | 2005 | Associate Director, STEM Graduate Careers at Syracuse University |
| Michael Ross Goodman | 2006 | Validating Specialist, Scientific Protein Laboratories (SPL), B.S., M.S. |
| Meng Kwang Marcus Tan | 2007 | Research Manager, Dornier MedTech, Singapore |
| Reece Joseph Goiffon | 2007 | M.D., Ph.D., Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Michael William Ahn | 2007 | DDS, Dentist, Hastings, MN |
| Li Hao | 2008 | Research Fellow at Molecular Engineering Lab, A*STAR, Singapore |
| Michael Christopher Popelars | 2008 | DMD, Dentist, MAC Dental, Green Bay, WI |
| Jae Eun Lee | 2009 | |
| Katie Lynn Scarpace Schroeder | 2009 | UW-Madison School of Pharmacy Community Pharmacy Residency Program, Two Rivers, WI |
| Sarit Aimee Klugman | 2009 | Project Manager, Pharma Services, NeoGenomics Laboratories, Aliso Viejo, CA |
| Lindsay L. Hamilton | 2009 | Working on Masters in Nursing to be Nurse Practitioner Spring 2014. Wheaton Franciscan St. Joseph Hospital, Milwaukee, WI |
| Lukas Blackford Bane | 2010 | Strategic Growth Associate, D.E. Shaw Research, New York, NY |
| Joseph Piechura | 2011 | Bioinformatics Scientist, Indigo, Cambridge, MA |
| Ricardo Reyes | 2011 | Senior Business Account Executive, Cox Communications, San Diego, CA |
| Sang Joon (Michael) Won | 2012 | Graduate Student, Brent Martin lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Chemical Biology PhD Program (Started Fall 2013) |
| Lauren Buckley | 2012 | Founder, LBWell, Milwaukee, WI |
| Allison Maytag | 2012 | Research Specialist, Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO |
| SungHyu Koo | 2012 | Graduate Student, University of Utah at Salt Lake City |
| Eileen Molzberger | 2012 | Grad Student, Dennis Theile’s lab, Duke University Fall 2013 |
| Xue (Summer) Xia | 2013 | Left Cox lab Fall 2012. As of 2014, Graduate Student, Fengyi Wan, Johns Hopkins University |
| Mengyuan (Mandy) Zhou | 2013 | Left Cox lab Fall 2012. Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Paul Iglar | 2013 | Pursuing Masters Public Health at UW-Madison. As of October 2013, Lab Assistant, Kendrick Labs, Madison, WI |
| Tayla Olsen | 2014 | Research Technician III/Lab Manager, lab of Anthony Rongvaux, Fred Hutchinson University, Seattle, WA |
| Karina Saskia Herlambang | 2014 | Graduate student, Brandeis University, Biochemistry, Waltham, MA |
| Staci Baker | 2015 | Pharmacist, Madison, WI |
| Rachel (Dvorak) Ceron | 2015 | Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania |
| Nicole Romero | 2015 | Working Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Americorps Member, City Year, Boston, then applying for Med School |
| Mary Menhart | 2016 | Bioinformatics Masters student at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam |
| Yui Chun (Serena) Wan | 2016 | Working in Cox lab |
| Bowon Joung | 2016 | MD program at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, August 2018 |
| Matthew Ritger | 2017 | Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), University of Virginia |
| Laura Sowin | 2017 | Will take gap year in 2017 before applying for medical school in 2018 |
| Hannah Robiolio | 2017 | Will take 1-2 years off before applying to med school. Will take a year or two to work full-time, gain more outside of class experience through volunteering in clinics, job shadowing, and translating for Hispanic patients. |
| Joseph Trimarco | 2018 | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology PhD Program at Duke University. |
| Kamya Gopal | 2018 | Grad School at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Cell and Molecular Biology Department PIBS Program. Fall 2018. |
| Neema Mbele | 2019 | Research Intern Cox lab for one year beginning summer 2019 |
| Sarah Thimmesch | 2019 | Med school at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee beginning 08/2019 |
| Illissa Landcaster | 2020 | |
| Emma Steigerwald | 2020 | Direct-Entry MSN program at Marquette University. After completing this program, I am planning on continuing on to become a nurse practitioner. |
| Hope Beyer | 2020 | |
| Jessica Liu | 2021 | Working as a CNA and doing volunteering and will continue as I apply to medical school this summer |
| Abigail Watson | 2021 | Planning to start a Ph.D. in Biochemistry with Luca Pellegrini's lab at Cambridge |