Visiting Scientists and Research Faculty

Victor Yushmanov (Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Techcnology, Moscow, Russia), Research Instructor, 2000-2004; Victor worked on NMR studies of mechanisms of general anesthesia.

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Esmael J. Haddadian (Ph.D., The Ohio State University), , 2006-2008; Esmael worked on a computational study of ion channels of anesthetic effects.

Chait Wannere (Ph.D., University of Georgia), 2006-2007; Chait worked on a computational study of ion channels of anesthetic effects

Agnieszka Szarecka (Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), 2004-2006;  Agnieszka worked on anesthetic binding and protein dynamics.

Alexander C. Saladino (Ph.D., University of Iowa), 2003-2006;  Alexander worked on the structure and dynamics of cys-loop receptors.

Serguei Liachenko (Ph.D., National Moscow Medical University, Russia), 1998-2002;  Serguei worked on MRI assessment of asphyxia-induced cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Jian Hu (Ph.D., Third Military Medical College, Chongqing, Sichuan, China), 1998-2000;  Jian worked on cerebral protection and resuscitation after prolonged circulatory arrest and development of membrane protein expression systems.

Igor Zubrzycki (Ph.D., Capetown, South Africa), 1999-2000;  Igor worked on structural determination of human glycine receptor

Bin Yan (Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York), 1995-1996; Bin worked on distribution of anesthetics and nonanesthetics in a model membrane.

Graduate Students

Xiaohu Da (University of Pittsburgh), Graduate Student, 2005;  Xiaohu worked on NMR of membrane proteins.

Michael J. Yonkunas (B.S., Millersville University), Graduate Student, 2002-2005;  Michael worked on computational study of protein-anesthetic interactions.

Teodora Pene Dumitrescu (University of Pittsburgh), Graduate Student, 2003;  Teodora worked on homology modeling of nAchR alpha7.

Darien R. Kavasmaneck  (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine),  Medical Student, 2002;  Darien worked on identifiying anesthetic binding sites in ligand-gated ion channels.

Yue Lu (University of Pittsburgh), Graduate Student, 2001;  Yue worked on parameterization of anesthetic molecules for MD simulations.

Ting Ting Zhang  (B.S., National Institutes of Chemistry, China), Gradaute Student, 1994-1995;  Ting Ting looked at anesthetic-protein interaction by NMR.

Undergraduates

Shaun Tomaszewski (University of Pittsburgh),  2005-2006;  Paymon worked on membrane protein expression and purification

Paymon Bagheri  (University of Pittsburgh),  2002-2004;  Paymon worked on membrane protein expression and purification.

Martha Zegarra (Dartmouth College),  1999-2002;  Martha worked on membrane protein expression and purification

Vernee Belcher (University of Pittsburgh)  1999-2000;  Vernee worked on anesthetic effects on proteins.

Shawnne Spencer (University of Pittsburgh), 1998;  Shawnne worked on anesthetic effects on proteins

Creighton Moorehead (University of Pittsburgh), 1996-1997;  Creighton worked on anesthetic effects on proteins.

Staff / Research Specialists

Ling Li (B.S., Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China), Research Specialist, 2001-2008