The HiFAN team is comprised of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, UNC Greensboro and Simon Fraser University and great collaborators from the University of Washington and the University of Bergen

Principal Investigators

John MacMillan
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
jomacmil@ucsc.edu

Roger Linington
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in High-Throughput Screening and Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Cananda
rliningt@sfu.ca

Nadja Cech
Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
nadja_cech@uncg.edu
Research Team

Aswad Khadilkar
Project Scientist, UC Santa Cruz
Role: Development of gene expression platforms
email: askhadil@ucsc.edu

Scott Lokey

Matylda Zietek
Research Scientist, UC Santa Cruz
Role: High throughput screening applications, cytological profiling
email: mzietek@ucsc.edu

Sahar Hosseinzadeh
Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz
Role: Investigation of bioactive small molecules
email: sahossei@ucsc.edu

Akshar Lohith
Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz
Role: Bioinformatics, data pipelines for high throughput screening
email: alohith@ucsc.edu

Olav Kvalheim
Professor, University of Bergen
Role: Consulatant, cheminformatics and statistics
Trevor Clark
Post-doc, Simon Fraser University
Role: Metabolomics, natural product isolation
email: trevor_clark@sfu.ca
Tim Baumeister
Daniel Todd
Joëlle Houriet
Post-doc, UNC Greensboro
Role: Metabolomics
Victoria Anderson
Postdoc, UNC Greensboro
Role: Metabolomics
Preston Manwill
Postdoc, UNC Greensboro
Role: Metabolomics
Warren Vidar
Ph.D student, UNC Greensboro
Role: Metabolomics
Fridah Rotich-Too
Ph.D student, UNC Greensboro
Role: Metabolomics
Beverley Rabbitts
Director of Operations, UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center
Role: cytological profiling and high-throughput screening
email: brabbitt@ucsc.edu