Lab Members
Shramana Chatterjee is a structural biochemist who received her PhD from the Crystallography and Molecular
Biology Division of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India. She is
co-mentored by Dr. Hausinger and Dr. Hu of BMB. Her initial project focused on an
[FeS]-containing form of the LarE sulfur transferase that participates in the synthesis
of the nickel-pincer nucleotide. Currently she is characterizing bacterial, fungal,
and ancestral sequence reconstruction versions of the ethylene-forming enzyme.
Yali Wang is Biochemical Engineer who received her PhD from Xiamen University, and received
additional training with Prof. David Baker on creating protein shells at the University
of Washington. Her work focuses on engineering bacterial microcompartments to contain
2-aminophenol-1,6-dioxygenase, an Fe(II)-containing enzyme and to characterize the
effects of confinement on enzyme activity. She is a member of the DOE-supported Energy
Frontiers Research Center on campus.
Yao Zhang is a structural biologist who received his PhD in Bioinorganic Chemistry from Guangxi
Normal University in Guilin, China. Yao carries out biochemical, mechanistic, and
structural characterization of enzymes that synthesize or use the nickel-pincer nucleotide
cofactor. He is jointly mentored by Dr. Hausinger and Professor Jian Hu in BMB.