People
Current Members

Brian Kuhlman
Professor
bkuhlman@email.unc.edu
120 Mason Farm Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260

Jeff
Jones
Lab Manager
jeffrey_jones@med.unc.edu

Brock
Harvey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Brock_Harvey@med.unc.edu

Matthew
Hvasta
Graduate Student
mghvasta@med.unc.edu

Gisselle
Prida Ajo
Graduate Student
gprida@email.unc.edu

McGuire
Metts
Graduate Student
McGuire_Metts@med.unc.edu

Shota
Kudo
Visiting Researcher
shota@email.unc.edu

Shawn
Yu
Clinical Fellow
shawn_yu@med.unc.edu

Henry
Dieckhaus
Graduate Student
dieckhau@unc.edu

Jake
Hughes
Graduate Student
jhug@unc.edu

Harris
Davis
Graduate Student
manwarh@ad.unc.edu

Tomoaki
Kinjo
Postdoctoral Fellow
tkinjo7@email.unc.edu

Christopher
Shelby
Graduate Student
cshelby@live.unc.edu

Tomiris
Mulikova
Graduate Student
mulikova@email.unc.edu

Tiger
Zhang
MD/PhD Student
tigerz@email.unc.edu

Owen
Rogers
Research Technician
orogers@email.unc.edu
Photos of the Lab
We enjoy working together, eating out, and celebrating each other’s success!
Here are some of our favorite moments throughout!
Group photos throughout the years
Working in the lab and traveling to conferences
Holiday parties and celebrations
Tree climbing at Piedmont Tree Climbing
Recent skiing trip to Sugar Mountain
Please check out our entire gallery of lab gatherings and hikes!
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Former Members
| Zhiyuan (Zoey) Yao | Merck, Boston, MA | zhiyuanyao2016@gmail.com | ||
| Nick Randolph | Profluent Bio, Emeryville, CA | nickzane22@gmail.com | ||
| Amrita Nallathambi | Skape Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark | amritan1707@gmail.com | ||
| Thanh Thanh Nguyen Phan | Moderna Therapeutics, MA | thanhthanh.n.phan@gmail.com | ||
| Amelia McCue | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | amccue1116@gmail.com | ||
| Odessa Goudy | AI Proteins, Boston, MA | odessagoudy2013@gmail.com | ||
| Rodney Park | Syngenta, Research Triangle Park, NC | rod.park@live.com | ||
| Matt Cummins | ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland | mccummin@email.unc.edu | ||
| Viet Vu | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | vietvu@college.harvard.edu | ||
| Andrew Leaver-Fay | Prescient Design, CA | aleaverfay@gmail.com | ||
| Aubrie Weyhmiller | Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, NC | aubriew@renci.org | ||
| David Thieker | Cyrus Biotechnology, Chapel Hill, NC | david.thieker@gmail.com | ||
| Alice Peng | UNC, Chapel Hill, NC | alicepeachtree11@gmail.com | ||
| Hailey Wallace | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | hailey.wallace@ucsf.edu | ||
| Stephan Kudlacek | Menten AI, TX | stephan.kudlacek@gmail.com | ||
| Teppei Niide | Osaka University, Osaka, Japan | teppeiniide@gmail.com | ||
| Jack Maguire | Menten AI, East Lansing, MI | jack@med.unc.edu | ||
| Frank Teets | Institute for Protein Innovation, Boston, MA | frankdt@email.unc.edu | ||
| Ella Buckner | Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC | ellabuckner@hotmail.com | ||
| Colleen Maillie | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY | cmaillie@u.rochester.edu | ||
| Alexander Payne | Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, New York, NY | alexpayne1997@gmail.com | ||
| Drew Fleming | Medical School, VA | drew_fleming@med.unc.edu | ||
| Andrew Lerner | Eshelman Institute for Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC | amlerner@email.unc.edu | ||
| Sharon Guffy | Pairwise Plants, Durham, NC | sharonguffy@gmail.com | ||
| Joe Harrison | University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA | joseph.scott.harrison@gmail.com | ||
| Hayretin Yumerefendi | Pfizer, New York, NY | hayretiny@gmail.com | ||
| Mahmud Hussain | Precision BioSciences, Durham, NC | mmhussai@ncsu.edu | ||
| Minnie Langlois | Meridian, ID | minnie.langlois@gmail.com | ||
| Seth Zimmerman | Duke, Durham, NC | a999bopper@gmail.com | ||
| Tim Jacobs | UNC, Chapel Hill, NC | timjacobs2@gmail.com | ||
| Ryan Hallett | Dualogics LLC, Chapel Hill, NC | ryan@dualogics.com | ||
| Doo Nam Kim | Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM | doonam.kim@gmail.com | ||
| Gurkan Guntas | Pfizer, Boston, MA | gurkanguntas@gmail.com | ||
| Bryan Der | Notch, Richmond, VA | bryander.s@gmail.com | ||
| Oana Lungu | University of Texas, Austin, TX | oilungu@gmail.com | ||
| Ben Stranges | Harvard University, Boston, MA | benstranges@gmail.com | ||
| Steven Lewis | Cyrus Biotechnology, Chapel Hill, NC | smlewi@gmail.com | ||
| Ron Jacak | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, MD | ron.jacak@gmail.com | ||
| Grant Murphy | Merck, West Point, PA | g.s.murphy@gmail.com | ||
| Eun Jung Choi | CJ CheilJeDang, Seoul, South Korea | s_banshe@yahoo.com | ||
| Ramesh Jha | Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM | rjha.unc@gmail.com | ||
| Doug Renfrew | Simons Foundation, New York, NY | doug.renfrew@gmail.com | ||
| Xiaozhen Hu | Scripps, San Diego, CA | huxz01@gmail.com | ||
| Deanne Sammond | National Renewable Energy Lab, Denver, CO | deanne.sammond@gmail.com | ||
| Ziad Eletr | Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA | ziadeletr@gmail.com | ||
| Xavier Ambroggio | Rosetta Design Group, Burlington, VA | xavier@rosettadesigngroup.com | ||
| Glenn Butterfoss | NYU, New York, NY | butter@gmail.com |

