Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Owen Tamplin

Credentials: PhD Molecular Genetics

Position title: Assistant Professor

Pronouns: he/him/his

Email: tamplin@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-0938

Graduate Students

Nicole Woodhead

Position title: Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) PhD Student

Email: nmwoodhead@wisc.edu

Cesi Deng

Position title: Genetics PhD Student

Email: cesi.deng@wisc.edu

Octavia Santis Larrain

Position title: Cell and Molecular Pathology (CMP) PhD Student

Email: santislarrai@wisc.edu

Undergraduate Students

Shanti Hug

Position title: Undergraduate Researcher

Email: sshug@wisc.edu

Julia Poelma

Position title: Undergraduate Researcher

Email: poelma@wisc.edu

Rylie Ceplina

Position title: Undergraduate Researcher

Email: rceplina@wisc.edu

Nina Chosy

Position title: Undergraduate summer student

Email: chosy2@wisc.edu

Julian Kamanda

Position title: Undergraduate Researcher

Email: kamanda@wisc.edu

Kylie Sweeny

Position title: Undergraduate Researcher

Email: kfsweeny@wisc.edu

Lab Staff

Alice Alhajkadour

Position title: Research Intern

Email: alhajkadour@wisc.edu

LAB ALUMNI

Nout Schimmelpennink, BSc

Undergraduate Researcher (2023-2024), UW-Madison, Class of 2024, Pharmacology and Toxicology & Molecular and Cell Biology

(Current Position: Research Intern at AstraZeneca)

Ai Tang Song, BSc

Undergraduate Researcher (2022-2024), UW-Madison, Class of 2024, Biomedical Engineering

(Current Position: Research Intern in the lab of Dr. Carl June, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, U Penn)

Casey Ostheimer, BSc

Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2023), UW-Madison, Class of 2023, Genetics and Genomics

(Current Position: Medical Student at Creighton University School of Medicine)

Damola Elujoba-Bridenstine, PhD

UW-Madison Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) PhD Graduate 2022

(Current Position: Senior Scientist II, Novartis Institutes for Biomed.Research)

Rebecca Schiavo, PhD

UW-Madison Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) PhD Graduate 2021

(Current Position: Senior Scientist at Labcorp Drug Development)

Sobhika Agarwala, MSc, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2017-2021)

(Current Position: Medical Writer at INVIVO)

Haley Engle, BSc

Lab Manager (2016-2019), University of Illinois at Chicago

(Current Position: Aquatics Supervisor at Northwestern University)

Ken Joves, BSc

Undergraduate Researcher (2017-2020), University of Illinois at Chicago, Class of 2020, Biochemistry

(Current Position: Research Specialist at the Chronis Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Natalie Piehl, BSc

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Intern (2019), University of Illinois at Chicago

(Current Position: Graduate Student at Northwestern University)

Jonathan Busquets, BSc, MSc 

Graeme Carnegie Summer Research Fellow (2019), University of Illinois at Chicago

(Current Position: Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Allon Klein, Harvard Medical School)

Frances Walker, BSc 

Summer high school research intern (2017-2018), NIH NIDDK STEP-UP Program, University of Illinois at Chicago