Coon Group alumni are pursuing exciting careers all across the globe.
Each year several students earn their Wisconsin Ph.D. after conducting research in the Coon Laboratory. We are proud to present them here and share with you their successes.
Our Alumni
“I learned how to be a self-starter—that no idea is bad, but an idea has to carry weight and momentum to be carried through to see it to the end.”
“Altogether, I cannot speak highly enough about what I got out of the Coon lab, its high profile research that allows you to work on the cutting-edge.”
“But I was not anticipating the level of attention to detail in various aspects of our careers and research, which I think may be unique to the Coon group.”
“I learned how to see a problem from many viewpoints and to articulate my viewpoint to effectively make an argument for something I feel strongly about.”
“I was involved in some really neat, high impact projects while I was at the Coon lab. If you had asked me at the beginning of my grad school career, I never would have thought that was possible.“
“I was drawn to UW because all of the students I met on my visit seemed so happy, and because there were so many collaborations—not just within the department but also across the university.“
``I really liked the diversity of projects I saw happening in the Coon lab and its collaborations with different groups in the university and across the country.``
”Knowing more about what goes on behind the scenes, I’m much more appreciative of the not necessarily flashy and cutting-edge but really essential work that administration provides.”
The Coon Group is always on the lookout for new members. Professor Coon accepts students from several UW-Madison doctoral programs including Chemistry, the Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB), and Cellular & Molecular Pathology.