abecker@mcw.edu
Mentor: Jong-In Park, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2016
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, major in Human Biology with a Dietetics emphasis, minor in Chemistry
Research Interest: Over the last decade, metabolic reprogramming has emerged as a new hallmark of cancer. I am interested in further investigating cancers ability to alter its bioenergetics that allow it to continually proliferate and metastasize in diverse nutrient conditions.

lbergluecke@mcw.edu

mbrunner@mcw.edu
Mentor: Matt Scaglione, PhD
Year Entered MCW:2017
Previous Education: UW La Crosse

schou@mcw.edu

adishman@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Volkman, PhD
Year Entered MCW:  
Previous Education: University of Michigan, BS, Biophysics
Research Interest:

jegner@mcw.edu
Mentor: Blake Hill, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2013
Previous Education: Carthage College, Kenosha, WI; Major: Biology and Neuroscience, Minor: Chemistry and Physics
Research Interest: My research project is aimed at understanding how the two mitochondrial outer membrane proteins Fission protein 1 (Fis1) and Mitochondrial dynamics protein of 51 kDa (MiD51) interact to modulate the GTPase mechanoenzyme Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) in stress-induced mitochondrial fission. I also am discovering new molecules that bind Fis1 by NMR screening of chemical libraries.

cjgoetz@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Smith, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2015
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BS, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Minor in Spanish
Research Interest: Understanding the mechanisms by which bromodomains and sirtuins modulate epigenetic function. Drug discovery and the development of novel chemical probes to answer biological questions and for use as potential therapeutics.

hhaver@mcw.edu
Mentor: Matt Scaglione, PhD
Year Entered MCW:  2016
Previous Education: BS in Chemistry with a Biochemistry concentration from St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Research Interest: I am interested in structural/functional biology and enzymology. In the Scaglione lab, I will be exploring the structure and function of the ubiquitin conjugating enzyme Ube2w in order to understand its physiological purpose.

uihenacho@mcw.edu
Mentor: Blake Hill, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2016
Previous Education:
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kekalous@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Smith, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2014
Previous Education: Concordia University, Mequon, WI: Major: Vocal Music, Minor: Natural Science
Research Interest: Current research interests include determining the effect of oxidative posttranslational modification on the enzymatic activity of sirtuin deacylases.

akanack@mcw.edu 
Mentor: Matt Scaglione, PhD 
Year Entered MCW: 2013 
Previous Education: 
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akleist@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Volkman, PhD
Year Entered MCW:  
Previous Education: Duke University, BS, Biology
Research Interest: Structural biology and drug discovery, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structure, signaling, and biased agonism at GPCRs, Chemokine and chemokine receptor biology as it relates to cancer pathogenesis.

dknaack@mcw.edu
Mentor: Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2016
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin – Madison, BS in Biology
Research Interest: Reducing communication discrepancies between researchers, physicians, and hospitalized patients through translational medicine and research

mnagree@mcw.edu
Mentor: Jeffrey Medin, PhD
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Previous Education:
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roldham@mcw.edu
Mentor: Jeffrey Medin, PhD
Year Entered MCW:
Previous Education:
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molp@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Smith, PhD
Year Entered MCW:  
Previous Education: Washington University- St. Louis, AB, Chemistry
Research Interest: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology

hpowers@mcw.edu

sproudfoot@mcw.edu
Mentor: Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2014
Previous Education: Alma College (Alma, MI); Major: Biology, Minor: Chemistry
Research Interest: I am studying the complex, exciting field of cardiovascular disease. My research aims to use structure-function studies to uncover new ways of improving cholesterol excretion, thereby preventing build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in arteries.

ssantarriaga@mcw.edu
Mentor: Matt Scaglione, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 
Previous Education: University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Molecular Biology
Research Interest: My research project is to understand mechanisms by which Dictyostelium resists protein aggregation.

jstafford@mcw.edu
Mentor: John Corbett, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2013
Previous Education: Harding University, BS in Biochemistry
Research Interest: I am interested in understanding how environmental factors, specifically viral infection, can cause β-cell damage leading to the induction of autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes. I am examining the dichotomous roles that the inflammatory mediators IL-1 and nitric oxide can play in promoting both β-cell damage while also protecting against virally mediated cell death.

mwaas@mcw.edu
Mentor: Rebekah Gundry, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2013
Previous Education: Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interest: Our lab focuses on the differentiation of human stem cells into cardiomyocytes. I am interested in the various ways that we can apply mass spectrometry to provide us with information about cell surface proteins to improve this process

mwedemeyer@mcw.edu
Mentor: Brian Volkman, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2015
Previous Education: Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, BS, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interest: My interests include chemokine-GPCR structural interaction and chemokine signal transduction. Chemokines are the body’s most elegant system for orchestrating directed chemotaxis of immune cells. I am currently engineering these proteins to act as a homing system for cellular therapies.

chayyeo@mcw.edu
Mentor: John Corbett, PhD
Year Entered MCW: 2015
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BS in Biochemistry
Research Interest: Our lab is interested in understanding β-cell damage mediated by cytokines (i.e. IL-1) as an early event in the development of type 1 diabetes. IL-1 stimulates nitric oxide production in β-cells, and nitric oxide has been known to play both damaging and protective roles in β-cells. My research project focuses on identifying the protective mechanisms mediated by nitric oxide in β-cells.