Lab Members

Principle Investigator

M. Thomas Record, Jr.

Position title: Principal Investigator

Email: mtrecord@wisc.edu

Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences
John D. Ferry Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., University of California-San Diego


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Research Staff

Irina Shkel

Position title: Assistant Scientist

Email: ishkel@wisc.edu

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Departments: Biochemistry, Chemistry
Research Description:  Thermodynamics of complex fluids, DNA and protein solutions. Methods of numerical and analytical analysis of experimental data in kinetics and thermodynamics.

Emily Zytkiewicz

Position title: Research Specialist

Email: zytkiewicz@wisc.edu

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Subgroup: Solutes
Research Description: Quantifying chemical interactions of polyols with protein functional groups in order to develop solute probes of biopolymer processes

Graduate Researchers

Max Rector

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: mjrector@wisc.edu

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Program: Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB)
Subgroup: RNA polymerase
Research Description: Using solute probes (urea) to determine points of large structural shifts during initial transcription.  Using FRET/PIFE to DNA wrapping/unwrapping during open complex formation and transcription initiation.

Undergraduate Researchers

Lucia Breuer

Position title: Undergraduate

Email: lebreuer@wisc.edu

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Major: Biochemistry
Subgroup: RNA Polymerase

Tuhin Chatterjee

Position title: Undergraduate

Email: tchatterjee5@wisc.edu

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Majors: Biochemistry
Certificate in Data Science
Subgroup: RNA Polymerase

Hailey Rude

Position title: Undergraduate

Email: hrude@wisc.edu

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Major: Biology
Subgroup: DNA Transcription

Stephanie Ruzicka

Position title: Undergraduate

Email: sruzicka@wisc.edu

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Major(s): Biochemistry
Subgroup: Solutes