People

Jason Kwan, Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, 2020–Present, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Assistant Professor, 2013–2020, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Postoc, 2010–2013, University of Utah (Eric Schmidt Lab)

Ph.D., 2005–2010, University of Florida (Hendrik Luesch Lab)

MPharm, 2004, University of Bath

John Barkei, Researcher

B.S., Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Annecie Benatrehina, Postdoc

Ph.D., 2018, Pharmacognosy, The Ohio State University (Douglas Kinghorn Lab)

Chase Clark, Postdoc

Ph.D., 2020, Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago (Brian Murphy Lab)

B.S., 2012, Biochemistry, Berry College, Georgia

Andrew Lail, Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. Student

B.S., 2019, Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

Christine Mlot, Research Associate

B.S., Bacteriology and French, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Evan Rees, Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. Student

B.S., 2016, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Siddarth Uppal, Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. Student

B.S., 2019, Pharmacy, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Sam Waterworth, Postdoc

Ph.D., 2018, Rhodes University (Rosemary Dorrington Lab)

B.Sc., 2014, Rhodes University

Kyle Wolf, Biophysics Ph.D. Student

B.S., 2014, Case Western Reserve University

Former lab members, current affiliation:

Michael Lafeyette

Rene Ramos, Lodo Therapeutics

Ian Miller, National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems

Jennifer Ross, Pharmaceutical Product Development

Angela Xu, Zymergen Inc.

Skylar Carlson, Smithsonian Marine Station

Jared Baxa, University of Utah

Tessa Burghardt, UW-Madison

Juan Lopera Peña, ATCC Microbial Genetics

Kelly Montgomery, UCSF

Heather Seo, UW-Madison

Noah Budi, UW-Madison

Izaak Miller, Alleghany College

Ian Tham, UW-Madison

Ted Weyna

John Barkei, UW-Madison (Mansfield Lab)

Christopher Andrews, Navigent

Max Wrobbel

Lab Photos

Lab Thankstmas Party 2021

Front row from left: Anthony Rende, John Barkei, Jason Kwan, Siddarth Uppal. Back row from left: Andrew Lail, Sam Waterworth, Annecie Benatrehina, Christine Mlot

Welcoming new postdoc Annecie Benatrehina during ASP 2019

Left to right: Jason Kwan, Christine Mlot, Annecie Benatrehina, Sam Waterworth, Kyle Wolf, Michael Lafayette

Lab holiday party 2018

Left to right: Jason Kwan, Evan Rees, Sam Waterworth, Kyle Wolf, Christine Mlot. Honorary lab member: Hari Patel-Kwan

Lab outing at the Terrace

Left to right: Ian Tham, Kelly Montgomery, Juan Lopera Peña, Ian Miller, Skylar Carlson, Izaak Miller, Jason Kwan

Jennifer and Angela discover a whole shrimp lodged in a marine sponge!