Scientific Report 2008

Chemical Physiology

Chairman's Overview

Staff

Benjamin F. Cravatt, Ph.D.*
Professor and Chairman

Ola Blixt, Ph.D.**
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Martha Fedor, Ph.D.***
Associate Professor

Natasha Kralli, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Jeanne Loring, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental
Neurobiology

Kerri Mowen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

James Paulson, Ph.D.****
Professor

Hugh Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Enrique Saez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

John Yates III, Ph.D.
Professor

Staff Scientists

Michael Bracey, Ph.D.

Steven Brown, Ph.D.

Daniel Cociorva, Ph.D.

Pedro Gonzalez-Cabrera, Ph.D.

Sherry Niessen, Ph.D.

Maria Sanna, Ph.D.

Catherine Wong, Ph.D.

Adjunct Appointments

Melissa Carpenter, Ph.D.
Novocell, Inc.
San Diego, California

John Kozarich, Ph.D.
ActivX Biosciences, Inc.
La Jolla, California

Prithi Rajan, Ph.D.
Christian Medical College
Vellore, India

David Smotrich, M.D.
La Jolla IVF
La Jolla, California

Senior Research Associate

Euijung Jo, Ph.D.

Research Associates

Sanja Arandjelovic, Ph.D.

Casimir Bamberger, Ph.D.

Inbar Ben-Nun, Ph.D.

Erin Carlson, Ph.D.**
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Ramya Chakravarthy, Ph.D.

Emily Chen, Ph.D.**
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

Weihsu Chen, Ph.D.

Gladys Completo, Ph.D.

Judith Coppinger, Ph.D.

Eduardo Dominguez, Ph.D.

Anthony Don, Ph.D.*****

Meng-Qiu Dong, Ph.D.**
National Institute of Biological Sciences
Beijing, China

Sonia Fernandez Veledo, Ph.D.

Bryan Fonslow, Ph.D.

Ibon Garitaonandia, Ph.D.

Xuemei Han, Ph.D.

Michael Hock, Ph.D.

Tilak Jain, Ph.D.

Norihito Kawasaki, Ph.D.

Jin Kim, Ph.D.

Florian Kopp, Ph.D.

Louise Laurent, Ph.D.

Lichun Li, Ph.D.

Liang Liao, Ph.D.**
Acme Bioscience, Inc.
Palo Alto, California

Lu Liu, Ph.D.

Bingwen Lu, Ph.D.

Kalotina Machini, Ph.D.

David Marsolais, Ph.D.

Brent Martin, Ph.D.

Daniel McClatchy, Ph.D.

Michele McKinney, Ph.D.

Eduardo Medina, Ph.D.

Nico Mitro, Ph.D.**
University of Milan
Milan, Italy

James Moresco, Ph.D.

Ryuichiro Nakai, Ph.D.**
Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan

Aleksey Nakorchevskiy, Ph.D.

Corwin Nycholat, Ph.D.

Mary O’Reilly, Ph.D.

Sandra Pankow, Ph.D.

Joanna Pawlak, Ph.D.

Suzanne Peterson, Ph.D.

Judith Prieto, Ph.D.

Emanuela Repetto, Ph.D.

Christian Ruse, Ph.D.

Cleo Salisbury, Ph.D.**
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
Emeryville, California

Hideo Satsu, Ph.D.*****

Jason Thomas, Ph.D.

Hua Tian, Ph.D.

Claire Tiraby-Nguyen, Ph.D.

Sarah Tully, Ph.D.

Eranthie Weerapana, Ph.D.

Binging Wei, Ph.D.**
Pfizer Inc.
Groton, Connecticut

Aaron Wright, Ph.D.

Ying Zeng, Ph.D.

Sabrina Zimmerman, Ph.D.

Scientific Associates

Ognian Bohorov, Ph.D.

Claire Delahunty, Ph.D.

Nora Leaf, Ph.D.

Lujian Liao, Ph.D.

Marie Schaeffer, Ph.D.

Robin Wesselschmidt, Ph.D.

* Joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and the Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neurological and Psychiatric-Disorder Institute

** Appointment completed, new location shown

*** Joint appointment in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology

**** Joint appointment in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine

***** Appointment completed