Lab Members
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Chris Gisriel - Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2019-2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University, 2017-2019
PhD, Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 2017
BSc, Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 2014
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Gaozhong Shen - Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, 1994-1998
PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology, Arizona State University, 1993
MS, Plant Genetics and Breeding, Sichuan Agricultural University, 1985
BSc, Argonomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, 1985
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Nikki Magdaong - Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005-2018
PhD, Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 2015
BSc, Chemistry, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2003
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Chris Brininger - Postdoc
PhD, Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, 2024
BS/MS, Biochemistry/Chemistry, Idaho State University, 2019
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Himanshu Mehra - Postdoc
PhD, Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, 2024
B/M Technology, Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University, 2018
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Maximino Emerson - Graduate Student
BA, Biochemistry, University of Kansas, 2023
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Judy Tang - Undergraduate
Current Undergraduate Student (BS), Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023-present
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Kyle Prock - Undergraduate
Current Undergraduate Student
(BS), Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023-present - 
      
      
      
        
  
      

Jasper Curtis - Undergraduate
Current Undergraduate Student
(BS), Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024-present - 
      
      
      
        
  
      

Isabel Crispin - Undergraduate
Current Undergraduate Student (BS), Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-present
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Ellen Hurley - Undergraduate
Current Undergraduate Student
(BS) Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024-present - 
      
      
      
        
  
      

Michelle Lee - High School Student
Senior at Middleton High School in the Biotech Youth Apprenticeship Program
 
Alumni
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Molly was an undergraduate researcher with us in the Fall of 2024, Spring of 2025, and Summer of 2025.
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Iris was an undergraduate researcher with us in the Fall of 2024. She is now in the Epidemiology graduate program at Harvard University.