People

Principal Investigator

Rob McGinty, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College
rmcginty [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu

Graduate Students

Caleb Fisher
Graduate Student
MCBP Training Program
B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
cbfish [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu

Lizzy Taggart
Graduate Student
BCBP Curriculum, Biochemistry track
B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Richmond
etaggart [at] email [dot] unc [dot] edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jacob Gordon, Ph.D.
Eshelman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Protein Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
NIH-OXCAM Fellow
gordonja [at] unc [dot] edu

Mai Huynh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Chemistry
Penn State University
maihuynh [at] unc [dot] edu

Alumni

Graduate students

Gabby Budziszewski, Ph.D. (2017-2022)
Current position: Operations Manager, National Crystallography Center, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute

Cathy (Anderson) Spangler, Ph.D. (2017-2022)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, OHSU, Gouaux lab

Nate Wesley, Ph.D. (2018-2022)
Current position: Scientist, Protein Science Team, Pairwise

Yani Zhao, Ph.D. (2020-2025)

Postdoctoral fellows

Aleksandra Skrajna, Ph.D. (2017-2023)
Current position: Assistant Professor, UCSC

Ken Lin, Ph.D. (2020-2025)

Undergraduate students

Dalal Azzam, B.S. Chemistry, Highest Honors (2018-2022)
Current position: Duke University Graduate Program in Biochemistry

Carinne Geil, B.S. Chemistry (2017-2020)
Current position: West Virginia School of Medicine M.D. Program, class of 2027

Maya Logan, B.S. Biology (2020, 2022)

Research Technicians

Eyla Arteaga (2021-2023)
Current position: Research Specialist, UNC Kidney Center

Matt Baird (2016-2017)
Current position: Harvard Medical School Graduate Program

Emily Howe Barbour (2017-2018)
Current position: UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Pharm.D. Program, class of 2023

Andrew Cesmat (2019-2020)
Current position: UNC School of Medicine M.D. Program, class of 2024

Yuka Koyama (2018-2019)
Current position: UNC School of Medicine M.D. Program, class of 2026

Holly Simmons (2020-2021)
Current position: Research Technician, University of Pittsburgh

Charlotte Smith (2019-2020)
Current position: UNC School of Medicine M.D. Program, class of 2024

High School Students

Erin Blanding, Young Innovators Program summer intern (2017)
Current position: Duke University, class of 2023

Isabel Fargo, summer intern (2022)
Current position: Carrboro High School, class of 2023

Jessica Gomez-Zamudio, WinSPIRE high school intern (2019)
Current position: UNC Chapel Hill, class of 2024