Illuminating the inner-workings of bacterial and viral pathogens by cryo-electron microscopy

People

Elizabeth R. Wright, Ph.D.

Position title: Professor

Email: erwright2@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-0666

Address:
Biochemistry lab page

Team

Steve Garvis, Ph.D.

Position title: Scientist II

Email: sgarvis@wisc.edu

Ujjayini Ghosh, Ph.D.

Position title: Scientist II

Email: ughosh4@wisc.edu

Corina Evans

Position title: Assistant

Email: ceevans3@wisc.edu

Matty Gaines, Ph.D.

Position title: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: mgaines3@wisc.edu

Josh Pierson, Ph.D.

Position title: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: japierson2@wisc.edu

Hayley Hirsch

Position title: CMB Graduate Student

Email: hhhirsch@wisc.edu

Mason Klawitter

Position title: Biophysics Graduate Student

Email: mklawitter2@wisc.edu

Ava Berdelman

Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: aberdelman@wisc.edu

Ellie Murray

Position title: Undergraduate Student

Email: ermurray3@wisc.edu

Nicholas Rienstra

Position title: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: nrienstra@wisc.edu

WRIGHT LAB ALUMNI

Undergraduate Students

Brenna Rae

(2021 – 2023)

Joseph Olson

(2020 – 2022)

Laurie Zhang

(2021 – 2022)

Kaylee Jo Rajek

(2022 – 2025)

Michael Sandvick

(2021 – 2022)

Joseph Baumgardt

(2023 – 2025)

EPIC

Verona, WI

PhD Students

Grant M. Williams

(2009 – 2012)

 Scientist, Centers for Disease

Control, Atlanta, GA

Raven Shah

(2017 – 2018)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Novartis

Cambridge, MA

Juan Sanchez

(2019 – 2025)

Senior Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Madison, WI

Zunlong Ke

(2013 – 2018)

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, UT-Austin

Austin, TX

Vicky Pappas

(2019 – 2022)

Research Specialist, University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Lucie Nepovímová

(2025 – 2026)

Fullbright Fellow, Masaryk University

Central European Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

Rebecca S. Dillard

(2014 – 2018)

Officer, Police Department

Huntsville, AL

Joseph Kim

(2018 – 2024)

Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF

San Francisco, CA

Postdoctoral Fellows

Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Ph.D.

(2009 – 2013)

Director, Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core, Emory University

Leon De Masi, Ph.D.

(2012 – 2013)

Scientist, Novo Nordisk

Cheri Hampton, Ph.D.

(2013 – 2017)

Operations and Technical Manager

Cryo-EM Research Center and Midwest Center for Cryo-ET, UW-Madison

Juleen Dickson, Ph.D.

(2019-2021)

Sales Representative, Evident Scientific

Bryan Sibert, Ph.D.

(2019-2025)

Sr. Scientist, St. Jude Children’s Research Hosptial

Jens M. Holl, Ph.D.

(2009 – 2012)

Scientist, Merck-Millipore

Kristen M. Lamb, Ph.D.

(2014 – 2015)

Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim

Max Housman, Ph.D.

(2016 – 2017)

Daniel Parrell, Ph.D.

(2019-2024)

BioCore Facilitator, UW-Madison

Gabriella Kiss, Ph.D.

(2012 – 2013)

Director of Global Strategic Accounts, Refeyn Ltd.

Joshua Strauss, Ph.D.

(2013 – 2016)

Assistant Professor and Cryo-EM Core Director, University of North Carolina

Nicoleta Ploscariu, Ph.D.

(2018 – 2020)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

Jae Yang, Ph.D.

(2018-2025)

Assistant Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Faculty