Former Postdoctoral Scholars
Jeffrey Cameron
Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar 2013-2015
RASEI Fellow and Assistant Professor at CU-Boulder
Spencer Hoover
Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar 2008-2010
Director of Process and Analytical Development
Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies at CCRM
Christopher Jones
Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar 2013-2016
Asst. Research Scientist at Arizona State University
Rung-Yi Lai
Position title: Postdoctroal Scholar 2015-2017
Lecturer at Suranaree University of Technology
Andrew Markley
Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar 2011-2016
Co Founder at Hoplark HopTea
Scientist at Think Bioscience
Former Graduate Students
Daniel Agnew
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering 2013
Director, Corporate Development at
Nimble Therapeutics
Matthew Begemann
Position title: PhD Microbiology 2014
Associate Director, Molecular Technologies at Benson Hill Biosystems
Austin Comer
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering - 2018
Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
Nestor Hernandez
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering 2018
Scientist - Enzyme Engineering at Manus Bio
Travis Korosh
Position title: PhD Environmental Chemistry and Tech. 2017
Associate Director of Biology at ForeLight, Inc
Rebecca Lennen
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering 2012
Director of Strain Engineering at Lygos
Christopher Mehrer
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering 2019
Sr. Fermentation Engineer at Genomatica
Gina (Gordon) Newmann
Position title: PhD Microbiology 2018
Research Scientist- Synthetic Biology at Benson Hill
J. Tyler Youngquist
Position title: PhD Chemical Engineering 2013
Scientist at The J.M. Smucker Company
Recent Former Undergraduates and Visiting Scientists
More Distant Former Undergraduates
- Alex Steiner – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Victoria Alber
- Nate Bennett
- Elizabeth Ciborowski
- Matthew Dysthe
- Derek Jacobs
- Haoxiang Lyu
- Laura McGinley
- Oscar Londono
- Jordan Lange
- Karolina Myrda
- Monica Dorda
- Helian Vunk
- K’Yal Bannister
- Richard Mikel
- Austin Rottinghaus
- Alex Carlos
- Ryan Clarke
- Charles Johnson
- Josh Rose
- Haley Schoenberger
- Martin Schumacher
- Wendi Sun
- Erin Zess
- Josh Thiede, 2013 – University of Minnesota, PhD in Biochemistry
- Joseph Villanueva (REU, 2012)
- George Degen (REU, 2012)
- Nicole Sonnert (REU, 2012)
- Zachariah Harris (REU, 2012)
- Eric Walters (BS, 2012) – University of California-Davis, PhD in Microbiology
- Amanda Stevermer (BS, 2012)
- Mary Sagstetter (BS, 2012)
- Michael Zaiken
- Michael Luc
- Victor Orler (BS, 2012) – Eisenmann
- Nico Herman (BS, 2012) – University of California-Berkeley, PhD in Chemical Engineering
- Max Kruziki (BS, 2011) – University of Minnesota, PhD in Chemical Engineering
- Samuel Porter
- Carlos J.M. Martinez (REU, 2011)
- Megan Elseheimer
- Amy Claas (BS, 2011) – LyondellBassell
- Jon Goodman (BS, 2011) – Iowa State, PhD in Chemical Engineering
- Scott Patnode (BS, 2011) – Hydrite
- Cody Wenzel (BS, 2011) – Dow-Chemical
- Jae Ahn (BS, 2011) – Halliburton
- Emily Schmitt (BS, 2011) – Minnesota, PhD in Biochemistry
- Scott Walhovd (BS, 2011) – Bemis
- Keith Olson (IBS-SRP, 2010)
- Kritika Kumar (Khorana Scholars Program)
- Joe Lubin (BS, 2011)
- Igor Luzhansky
- Joe Field (BS, 2011) – BP
- Suman Gunasekaran (High School) – Harvard University
- Gina Lewin (IBS-SRP, 2010) – UW-Madison, PhD in Microbiology
- Ashley Paulick (BS, 2010)
- Amy Brownson (BS, 2010) – Bemis
- Sixing Liang (BS, 2009)
- Anna Meilke (BS, 2009) – Nestle
- Handara Utomo (BS, 2009) – Aquarius Maritime
- Phil Angart (BS, 2009) – Michigan State, PhD in Chemical Engineering
- Asif Rahman (BS, 2009) – Utah State, PhD in Synthetic Biology
Former Visiting Scientists
- Wasti Nurani
- Thomas Raines