Advising
Upon declaring the major, all Molecular and Cell Biology students are assigned to an advising team composed of a Faculty Advisor and the Student Services Coordinator, Ginny Jackson. Schedule an appointment with Ginny via Starfish.
Declared students are encouraged to meet with their Faculty Advisors and Student Services Coordinator regularly throughout the duration of their undergraduate experience.
Your Faculty Advisor
Your Faculty Advisor provides guidance specific to the molecular and cell biology discipline through discussions about undergraduate experiences (i.e. internships, research, volunteering, etc.) that will help prepare you for graduate work or a career after graduation.
You can make an appointment with your Faculty Advisor via email.
Your Student Services Coordinator
Your Student Services Coordinator provides guidance specific to the molecular and cell biology discipline but also provides developmental advising throughout your undergraduate career. Your Student Services Coordinator will help with course selection, registration, DARS, L&S degree and major requirements, and tracking progress towards graduation, as well as connecting you to important resources across campus. Current students can schedule an appointment with Students Services Coordinator, Ginny Jackson, through Starfish. Questions can be sent to vjackson4@wisc.edu.
Declared students are strongly encouraged to meet with their Faculty Advisors and Student Services Coordinator regularly throughout the duration of their undergraduate experience.
Faculty Advisors
Nihal Ahmad
Email: nahmad@dermatology.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-5359
Address:
B-25 Medical Sciences Center
Department Affiliation: Dermatology
Research: Biomedical research, Cancer biology and progression
Kurt Amann
Email: kjamann@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-265-3150
Address:
335 Bock Laboratories
Website: https://integrativebiology.wisc.edu/staff/amann-kurt/
Research: Mechanisms of cell structure and motility, Biochemical behavior of molecules
Zsuza Fabry
Email: zfabry@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-8717
Address:
6130 Medical Sciences Center
Website: https://pathology.wisc.edu/staff/fabry-zsuzsanna/
Department Affiliation: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research: Immunopathology, Neuroimmunology, Multiple Sclerosis
Yevgenya Grinblat
Email: ygrinblat@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-3219
Address:
128 Zoology Research
Website: https://grinblat.neuro.wisc.edu/
Department Affliciation: Neuroscience
Research: investigate conserved genetic mechanisms that control vertebrate embryogenesis by focusing on a conserved family of zinc-finger transcription factor genes, the Zinc-Finger-in-the-Cerebellum (Zic) family.
Trina McMahon
Email: tmcmahon@engr.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-3137
Address:
5552 Microbial Sciences
Website: https://mcmahonlab.wisc.edu/
Department Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research: Microbial ecology of natural and engineered systems, Bacterial metabolism related to wastewater treatment and freshwater nutrient cycling
Phillip A Newmark
Email: pnewmark@morgridge.org
Phone: (608) 316-4105
Address:
3266 Morgridge Inst Research
Website: https://crb.wisc.edu/staff/newmark-phillip/
Department Affilication: Integrative Biology
Research: Planarian regeneration, germ cell development, schistosomes
Marisa S Otegui
Email: otegui@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-265-5703
Address:
B119 Birge Hall and 401A Bock Labs
Website: https://botany.wisc.edu/staff/otegui-marisa-s/
Department Affiliation: Botany
Research: focuses on the regulation of vesicle trafficking mechanisms in plant cells. Our goal is to understand how cells control the flow of proteins and specialized metabolites between different cellular compartments.
Srivatsan Raman
Email: sraman4@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-890-1036
Address:
441B HF DeLuca Biochemistry Laboratories
Website: https://www.ramanlab.org/
Department Affiliation: Biochemistry
Research:Synthetic and systems biology, protein design, directed evolution of proteins and biosynthetic pathways
Student Services Coordinator
Ginny Jackson
Contact Ginny Jackson for advising in the Molecular Biology major
Email at vjackson4@wisc.edu or schedule an appointment