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

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

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

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

Aswad Khadilkar

Project Scientist, UC Santa Cruz

Role: Development of gene expression platforms

email: askhadil@ucsc.edu

 

Scott Lokey

Scott Lokey

Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Role: Project 1 co-lead, highthoughput screening

email: slokey@ucsc.edu

Matylda Zietek

Matylda Zietek

Research Scientist, UC Santa Cruz

Role: High throughput screening applications, cytological profiling

email: mzietek@ucsc.edu

Sahar Hosseinzadeh

Sahar Hosseinzadeh

Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Role: Investigation of bioactive small molecules

email: sahossei@ucsc.edu

Akshar Lohith

Akshar Lohith

Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz

Role: Bioinformatics, data pipelines for high throughput screening

email: alohith@ucsc.edu

Olav Kvalheim

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

Postdoc, Simon Fraser University

Role: Cheminformatics

email: tim.baumeister@gmx.de

Daniel Todd

Mass Spec Research Operations Manager, UNC Greensboro

Role: Metabolomics

email: datodd3@uncg.edu

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