Members List

Title: IT Web Designer / Developer
Email: bgyawali@ad.unc.edu
Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal

Title: PhD student
Email: bfordyce@unc.edu
Hometown: Jensen Beach, FL

Title: Research Technician
Email: mbkuijer@med.unc.edu
Research: psycho-active drug screening program
Future Research: pharmD. degree
Other Interests: floorball, soccer, & building cyborgs

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: bkrumm@email.unc.edu

Title: Big Kahuna
Email: bryan_roth@med.unc.edu

Title: Wizard
Email: drdave@purdue.edu

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: dewran@unc.edu
Hometown: Cliffside Park, NJ
Research: Genome engineering technologies
Future Research: GPCR signaling chracterization

Title: Applications Analyst
Email: EstelaLopez@unc.edu
Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: wangjing@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Jilin, China

Title: Research Associate
Email: julie.pickett@unc.edu
Hometown: Concord, NC
Research: Synthetic organic chemistry, drug development, PET tracers, opioid receptors, neuropsychopharmacology
Other Interests: Cats, cooking, cocktails, Android phones, plants, traveling, aerial dance

Title: Research Specialist
Email: kensuke_sakamoto@unc.edu
Hometown: Kumamoto, Japan
Research: GPCR screening and characterization
Future Research: Discovery of novel psychoactive compounds
Other Interests: Baseball, Hiking, and Stretching

Title: Research Specialist
Email: hua@unc.edu

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: mkjain@unc.edu
Hometown: Bazpur, Uttarakhand, India
Research: GPCRs signaling mechanisms, Neurological disorders, Drug discovery
Future Research: Drug discovery, GPCRs functions, Neurological disorders
Other Interests: Photography, Traveling, Hiking, Sports, Yoga

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: nicholas_wright@med.unc.edu
Hometown: Harrisonburg, VA
Research: Structural biology
Future Research: Conformational dynamics with cryo-EM
Other Interests: Running, spending time with family

Title: Research Technician
Email: ferhew@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Recife, Brazil
Future Research: N/A
Other Interests: Yoga, reading, cooking and making jewelry

Title: Research Associate/DARPA project Manager
Email: rgumpper@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Bradenton, FL
Research: Structure-Function of GPCRs, X-ray Crystallography/Cryo-EM, Drug Discovery, AI/ML in Drug Discovery, Neurological Disorders
Other Interests: Guitar, Cooking, Coding, Philosophy

Title: Senior Research Specialist
Email: sandy.hufeisen@unc.edu

Title: Research Technician
Email: talia.albert@unc.edu
Hometown: State College, PA
Research: Primary and Secondary Binding Assays
Future Research: N/A
Other Interests: Reading, Writing, Music, Running, Soccer

Title: Research Specialist
Email: violetta_weinreb@med.unc.edu

Title: Assistant Scientific Director
Email: xphuang@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Jiangsu province, PR China
Research: GPCR signaling and alosteric regulation of GPCRs

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: yitichiu@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Yilan, Taiwan
Research: deorphan GPCRs
Other Interests: Travelling

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: yoojoong@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Research: Structural and functional study of GPCRs using cryo-EM, Structure-based drug discovery, Neurological disorders
Future Research: Structure-based drug discovery, Molecular signal transduction in cognitive processing, Neurological disorders
Other Interests: Sports, workout gym, traveling, watching movies

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Email: chengzhi@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Hubei, China
Future Research: Mechanisms of GPCR signaling and structure-based drug discovery
Other Interests: Program, history and ride

Title: PhD: Lead, Quality-Biologics Hospira, Inc
Email: axbsxb96@gmail.com
Hometown: New Delhi, India

Title: Psychiatrist, Portland VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University
Email: abbasat@ohsu.edu

Title: Pharmacology / Toxicology Reviewer at FDA
Email: daniel.urban@duke.edu

Title: PhD: Assistant Professor, Burnam Institute, San Diego, CA
Email: dsheffler@sanfordburnham.org
Hometown: Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Research: In Bryan Roth's lab, my graduate work has focused on the regulation of signaling of the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptor. Specifically, I have characterized a novel interaction between the third intracellular (i3) loop of the 5-HT2A receptor and a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family, RSK2. This interaction has been found to have profound effects on 5-HT2A receptor signaling.
Future Research: My interests are in the complex regulation of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs): GPCR signal transduction, ligand binding, receptor desensitization, and the processes of GPCR internalization and down-regulation.I have a specific interest in the pharmacology of GPCRs, but I am also interested in the mechanisms of signal transduction in general.
Other Interests: I recently was married to Allison Limpert, another fifth year graduate student in the Neurosciences department, and had a lovely honeymoon on the islands of Maui and Hawaii in Hawaii.When I'm not in the lab, I'm spending time with my lovely wife and our cat Scout.

Title: GSK Vaccine Division
Email: fyan@unc.edu

Title: Director of Assay Development and Co-founder at EVE Bio
Email: diberto@live.unc.edu

Title: MD, PhD: Assistant Professor Center for Neuroscience UC Davis Medical School
Email: jgray@lppi.ucsf.edu
Hometown: Newark, Ohio

Title: Senior Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company
Email: katelansu@gmail.com

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ray Stevens Lab USC
Email: whitekl@email.unc.eu

Title: PhD: visiting assistant Professor Oberlin University Neurosciences Department
Email: katherine.alex@case.edu
Research: Alex KD, Yavanian GJ, McFarlane HG, Pluto CP, Pehek EA.Modulation of dopamine release by striatal 5-HT2C receptors.Synapse. 2005 Mar 15;55(4):242-51.Previous work has demonstrated that dopamine (DA) transmission is regulated by serotonin-2C (5-HT2C) receptors but the site(s) in the brain where these receptors are localized is not known. The present work utilized in vivo microdialysis to investigate the modulation of DA release by 5-HT2C receptors localized in the nerve terminal regions of the mesocortical and nigrostriatal DA pathways. Microdialysis probes implanted in the striatum or the prefrontal cortex (PFC) measured dialysate DA concentrations, while the selective 5-HT2B/2C inverse agonist SB 206553 was given locally by reverse dialysis into these terminal regions.

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC Chapel Hill
Email: martilias_farrell@med.unc.edu

Title: Molecular Pharmacologist at Exscientia
Email: olsenr@email.unc.edu

Title: Principal Scientist in Discovery Biology at Septerna
Email: rstracha@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Akron, OH
Research: Regulation of the 5HT2A receptor

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh SOM, Pittsburgh, PA
Email: rogansc@mail.magee.edu
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Research: DREADD mouse project
Other Interests: Traveling, food and wine, soccer

Title: MD, PhD: Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Email: zxx6@case.edu

Title: Product Manager - GPCR Drug Discovery Upstate|Chemicon|Linco now part of Millipore Corporation
Email: blaine_armbruster@millipore.com

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: caocan23@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Anhui, China
Research: Signaling Mechanisms of GPCRs

Title: Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Ichan School of Medicine, New York, NY
Email: dwacker@email.unc.edu

Title: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Email: dipendra.aryal@med.unc.edu

Title: Drug Discovery at Kallyope
Email: evardy@gmail.com

Title: Head of Screening Facility / Research Project Manager / Tarran Lab, UNC
Email: msassano@unc.edu

Title: Research Scientist, Biology
Email: hu.zhu@NIH.gov
Hometown: Jiangsu province, P.R. China
Research: RNA editing
Future Research: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: hyejin@email.unc.edu

Title: HTS Specialist with Taosheng Chen at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Email: HM.Lee@STJUDE.ORG
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Research: Drug screening against Rett Syndrome
Future Research: 5129 Neuroscience Research Building

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Email: jmccorvy@email.unc.edu

Title: Assistant Professor University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Galveston, TX
Email: joaallen@utmb.edu
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Research: In vivo regulation of 5-HT2A receptor signaling and trafficking by scaffolding proteins (caveolins and PSD95)

Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at University of Utah School of Medicine
Email: justin.english@biochem.utah.edu

Title: Assistant Scientific Director, Case Center for Imaging Research at Case Western Reserve University
Email: Kerry.Grimberg@uhhospitals.org
Hometown: Wantagh, NY

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: klkim@unc.edu
Hometown: Taean-gun, South Korea
Research: The structural study of GPCR by X-ray crystallography
Future Research: The structural study of heterodimeric GPCR by Cryo-EM
Other Interests: Travel, and watching movies

Title: PhD Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology University of Tromso, Norway

Title: Assistant Professor, Health & Community Systems, School of Nursing, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Email: daviesm@pitt.edu

Title: Director R&D THC Pharm GmbHD-60599, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Email: njensen@unc.edu
Hometown: Hamburg, Germany
Research: Functional selectivity at serotonin type-2 receptors
Future Research: Combining pharmacological, biochemical, chemical, and computational methods to study serotonin type-2 receptors

Title: Assistant Professor
Email: patrick.giguere@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Ottawa, ONK1H 8M5
Research: Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Other Interests: (613) 562-5800 x8402

Title: Senior Scientist, Central Drug Research Institute/CSIR, Lucknow,UP-226001, INDIA
Email: yadav@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Ambedkar Nagar,Uttar Pradesh, India
Research: GPCR mediated modulation of neuronal plasticity in development of opioid tolereance, Treatment stratgeis of neuronal inflammation and neuropathic pain neuro-autoimmune diseases
Other Interests: Play tennis, cricket and reading science fiction.

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: samslo@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Holland, Michigan
Future Research: Polyketide synthase enzymology
Other Interests: Running, hiking, disc golf

Title: Senior Scientist at Novametics
Email: samarpan_majumder@med.unc.edu
Hometown: Calcutta, India
Research: Screening compounds against GABA A receptor which is implicated in number of diseases viz. insomnia, depression, anxiety, seizure, schizophrenia and many more.
Other Interests: Visiting new places and trying to get an idea about the local people- their history, culture, socio-economic condition.

Title: Principal Investigator and Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and CellBiology /Shanghai 200031 CHINA
Email: shengunc@email.unc.edu
Hometown: AnHui, China
Other Interests: Running; Billiard; Travel.

Title: Post-Doc Research Associate
Email: hustzsc@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Anhui, China

Title: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah
Email: shuyun.dong@pharm.utah.edu

Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: sreemaj@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Calcutta (Kolkata), India
Research: Current research involves screening drug libraries for selective activity against understudied GPCRs, de-orphanization of orphan GPCRs in the human genome and brain mapping project
Future Research: Brain-gut connection, immune-neuroendocrine circuitry, receptor pharmacology and biosensors
Other Interests: Gardening, music, movies, food

Title: Assistant Professor, Center for Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University
Email: taoche@wustl.edu

Title: PhD: Senior Scientist, Abbot Labs
Email: timothy.vortherms@abbott.com

Title: Retired
Email: kroeze@unc.edu

Title: Postdoctoral research scientist - Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Email: peiying1980@gmail.com

Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: yongfeng@email.unc.edu
Hometown: Xuchang

Title: Professor UCSF
Research: Sabbatical (2011-12)

Title: Chair Pharmacology UCSD
Research: Sabbatical (2014)

Title: Asubio Pharmacy Co
Email: sato.seiji.gn@asubio.co.jp
Research: Sabbatical (2014-2016)

Title: DaiNippon Sumitomo
Research: Sabbatical (2012-2014)