Members

 

Wenjun Zhang

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Location: Stanley Hall 508A
Phone: (510) 643-8682 

CV Link


POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Rui Zhai, PhD

rui_zhai@berkeley.edu

Kaimin Jia, PhD

kaiminj@berkeley.edu 

Yoo-Sung Ko, PhD

yoosungko7@berkeley.edu

Haoran Pang, PhD

panghaoran7777@berkeley.edu

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Di Gu

Chemistry

dgu@berkeley.edu

Dunya Al Marzooqi

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

dunya_almarzooqi@berkeley.edu

McKenna Loop Yao

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

mckenna_yao@berkeley.edu

Justin Baerwald

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Co-advised with Jay Keasling

jbaerwald@berkeley.edu

Nicole 

Wong

Chemistry 

Chemical Biology

nicolefwong@berkeley.edu

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Zhenyu Guo (Chemistry, Nanjing University)  

Amy Lee (Chemical Biology)

Celina Lee (Chemical Biology)

Eunice Yoon (Chemical Engineering)

Helen Sun (Chemistry)

Rachel Sullivan (MCB) 

Lina Wang (Chemical Biology) 

Bailey Daymo (Chemical Engineering)

Caroline Luo (Chemistry) 

Yiyan Zhou (MCB) 

ALUMNI

Graduate Students

Antonio Del Rio Flores (PhD 2023, Post-doc at Stanford University) 

Colin Barber (PhD 2022, Boston Consulting Group)

Nick Zill (PhD 2022, Senior Scientist at Merck) 

Jeremy Seidel (PhD 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Jeffrey Li (PhD 2020, Scientist at C16 Biosciences)

Frederick Twigg (PhD 2020, Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim)

Will Skyrud (PhD 2020, Scientist at Arzeda)

Zhongrui Li (MS 2020)

Michael Su (PhD 2019)

Nick Harris (PhD 2019; Co-founder, Berkeley Brewing Science)

Nico Herman (PhD 2017; Scientist at Zymergen)

Xuejun Zhu (PhD 2017; Postdoctoral Associate, MIT IMES)

Joyce Liu (PhD 2016; Scientist at Codexis)

Bonnie Domigan (MS 2013; Senior Research Associate at KnipBio)


Postdoctoral Researchers

Yongle Du, PhD (postdoc 2022; process development scientist, Amgen)

Zhijuan Hu, PhD (Postdoc 2021; Assistant researcher, Westlake University) 

Wenlong Cai, PhD (Postdoc 2020; Scientist at Zymergen)

Juan Wang, PhD (Visiting Scholar 2020; Lecturer, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)

Will Porterfield, PhD (Postdoc 2019; Scientist at Fornia Biosolutions, Inc.)

Yaobing Huang, PhD (Visiting Scholar 2019; Associate Professor, Nanjing Forestry University)

Junying Ma, PhD (Visiting Scholar 2017; Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Juan Zhang, PhD (Visiting Scholar 2017; Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University)

Seong Jong Kim, PhD (Postdoc 2016; University of Mississippi)

Wei Huang, PhD (Postdoc 2016; Assistant Professor, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Ella Zafrir, PhD (Postdoc 2016; Research Scientist at Gilead)

Michio Sato, PhD (Postdoc 2015; UCLA)

Zhe Rui, PhD (Postdoc 2015; Scientist at Renewable Energy Group, Inc.)

Liang (Jack) Zhang (Visiting Scholar 2013)

Moriah Sandy, PhD (Postdoc 2013; Clinical Assistant Professor at UT Austin)


Undergraduate Students

Andrew Mai (Chemical Engineering)

Kiki Wang (Chemistry)

Yuzhu (Karlie) Lin (BS 2024 Nanjing University, Chemistry)

Siyue Yang (Chemical Biology)

Jenna Kira (Chemical Engineering) 

Dennis Xue (BS 2023, Chemical Engineering)

Nicholas Do (BS 2023, Chemical Engineering and Economics)

Kaushik Seshadri (BS 2023, Chemical Engineering)

Kyle De Matias (BS 2022, Chemical Engineering)

Sammy Marinkovich (Chemical Engineering)

Di Gu (Chemistry, PhD candidate UC Berkeley)

Ismael Montanez (Chemical Biology)

Rohin Devanathan, Jr (Chemical Engineering)

Ted Gao (Chemistry)

Sarah Lee (Chemical Biology)

Alli Green (Chemical Engineering)

Moriel Dror (Chemical Engineering)

Patrick Negulescu (Chemical Engineering)

Sam Ng (Chemical Engineering)

Joy Geng (Microbial Biology)

Alex Leung (Materials Science/Bioengineering)

Tate Tong (Chemical Engineering)

Ty Perez (BS 2019, Associate Scientist at Mekonos)

Ryan Khalaf (BS 2018, Medicinal Chemistry Internship at Genentech)

Joelle Martin (BS 2018, Pharmaceutical Development Internship at Genentech)

Maria Cabrera (BS 2018, Research Technician at Caltech)

Li Cao (BS 2018, PhD student at Princeton with NSF GRFP)

Katherine Zhou (BS 2018, MS student at UPenn)

Brianna Lax (Amgen Scholar 2017)

Amy Li (Chemical Engineering)

Frank Gao (Chemistry; PhD student at UChicago)

Jordan Downey (BS 2017; Bioprocess Manufacturing Technician at Genentech)

Emily Sun (BS 2017; PhD student at UC Santa Barbara)

Kadhirvel Manickam (BS 2017, Software Engineer at Allevi)

Dylan Mendonca (BS 2017, Research Associate at JUUL Labs)

Vinh Tran (BS 2016, PhD student at UIUC)

Phoebe Yeh (BS 2016; Amyris)

Ripika Bedi (BS 2015; Medical student at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine)

Yongsheng Li (Chemical Engineering & Computer Science; Google)

Haedyn Christie (BERET 2013)

Joel Sanchez (Amgen Scholar 2014; PhD student at Stanford University)

Jin Soo Chung (Chemical Engineering; Samsung BioLogics)

Rajandeep Brayana (Chemical Engineering)

Wenyuan Bao (Chemistry)

Tai Lun Ng (BS 2014; PhD student at Harvard University)

Esther Kemper (BS 2015; PhD student at Scripps Research Institute)

Emil Olsson (Exchange student 2013; Haldor Topsoe A/S)

Ziyan Feng (BS 2012; MS student at Columbia University)

Zihao (Peter) Yan (BS 2014; MS student at University of Pittsburgh)

Tiffany Hwang (BS 2013; USC School of Pharmacy)

Brian Jung (BS 2012; Fluor)

Shyh-Herng (James) Lo (TTE-REU 2012)

Himani Nadgauda (BS 2013; University of Illinois at Chicago)

Vincent Yeh (BS 2013; Stryker Neurovascular)

Scott Ahn (BS 2012; Fluor)