Research scientist profiles

Jui-Yen Huang, Ph.D.

Associate Scientist

Phone:

812-855-8645

Email:

juiyhuan@iu.edu

Research interests: Cortical brain circuitry formation, neurobiology, redox biology, neurodegenerative disease

Anna Kalinovsky, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-9965

Email:

akalinov@indiana.edu

Research interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural circuit assembly and function, role of cannabinoid signals in cerebellar circuits and their specific behavioral outputs

Yvonne Lai, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-2524

Email:

yylai@indiana.edu

Research interests: Developing novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of neurological disorders using disruptors of protein-protein interactions

Stephanie Mauthner, Ph.D.

Associate Scientist

Phone:

812-856-2681

Email:

mauthner@indiana.edu

Research interests: How sensory neurons detect painful stimuli, mechanosensory transduction machinery, ion channel function, and ion channel trafficking in pain neurons

Piotr Mroz, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-2052

Email:

pamroz@iu.edu

Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metablic disease

Alex Straiker, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-2684

Email:

straiker@indiana.edu

Website:

https://straiker.pages.iu.edu/

Research interests: Physiology of cannabinoid receptors in neurons, cannabinoids in synaptic transmission, cannibinoids in ocular health

Kishore Thalluri, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist

Email:

kisthall@iu.edu

Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology and developing novel peptide - based therapeutic strategies for the treatment of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Jim Wager-Miller, M.S.

Associate Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-2684

Email:

jm99@indiana.edu

Research interests: Cellular signaling methods development, best practices for undergraduate lab education

Fa Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist

Email:

zhang418@indiana.edu

Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metabolic disease

Yujin Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist

Phone:

812-856-7197

Email:

zhang512@iu.edu

Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metablic disease