Jeffrey Conn Research Group  

LAB MEMBERS
LAB LEADERSHIP

P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.
Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery

Principal Investigator

Colleen Niswender, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Molecular Pharmacology

Carrie Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 

Behavioral Pharmacology

Zixiu Xiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Electrophysiology
SUPPORT STAFF

Donna Kay Ingram
Senior Executive Assistant

Office Administration 

Thomas A. Ekman, Ph.D.
Project Manager

tom.ekman@vanderbilt.edu

POST-DOCS, STUDENTS, AND STAFF

Jennifer Ayala
Graduate Student

Randy Barrett
Research Assistant Professor

Joint with Elaine Sanders-Bush Lab

Ashley Brady, Ph.D.
Research Fellow

Tom Bridges
Graduate Student

Joint with Craig Lindsley lab

Mark Grier
Graduate Student

Alexis Hammond
Graduate Student

Satyawan Jadhav

Satyawan Jadhav
Research Fellow

satyawan.jadhav@vanderbilt.edu

Kari Johnson

Kari Johnson
Graduate Student

Paulianda Jones

Paulianda Jones
Research Fellow

Robert Kline
Research Assistant II

Joint with Neurology

Cherry Luo
Research Assistant I

Joy Marlo
Research Assistant III

Nicole Miller
Graduate Student

Alice Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Instructor

Sameer Sharma
Graduate Student

Joint with the Craig Lindsley Lab

Doug Sheffler, Ph.D.
Research Fellow 

Jana Shirey
Graduate Student

Analisa Thompson, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist

Daryl Venable
Senior Research Specialist

Huiyong Yin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Joint with Jason Morrow lab
COLLABORATORS IN THE DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAM

Craig Lindsley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry
Director, Medicinal Chemistry

Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry

Dave Weaver
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry
Director, Lead Discovery

Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry
High-Throughput Screening

Emily Days
Laboratory Manager

High-Throughput Screening
David Weaver Lab

Daniel Dorset
Research Assistant II

High-Throughput Screening
David Weaver Lab

Christopher Farmer
Seniro Research Specialist

High-Throughput Screening
David Weaver Lab

Stacey Lindsley
Technical Assistant

Craig Lindsley Lab

Matthew Mulder
Research Assistant III

Craig Lindsley Lab

Richard Williams, Ph.D.
Research Specialist Senior

Craig Lindsley Lab

Sandra Zhou, Ph.D.
Research Fellow

Craig Lindsley Lab
 

 

OTHER VANDERBILT COLLABORATORS

Jens Meiler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry
Jens Meiler Lab

David Wasserman, Ph.D.
Professor; Director, Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center

Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Michael Bubser, Ph.D.
Research Instructor

Psychiatry
Ariel Deutch Lab

Nellie Byun, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Fellow

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science / John Gore Lab

Mariusz Butkiewicz
Title to be named

Department of Chemistry
Jens Meiler Laboratory

Silvia Cambronero
Research Assistant I

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

Eric Dawson
Research Instructor

Department of Biochemistry
Jens Meiler Lab

Freyja James
Research Assistant

Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
David Wasserman Lab

Jack Kennedy
Title to be named

Department of Pharmacology
Craig Lindsley Lab

Brian Laden, Ph.D.
Licensing Associate

Office of Technology Transfer and Enterprise Development

Ralf Mueller
Graduate Student

Jens Meiler Lab

Tiffany Rodewald
Research Assistant II

Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
David Wasserman Lab

Masakazu Shiota, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

M. Noor Tantawy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

Jarrod True, M.B.A.
Lab Manager

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

Jason Williams, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

Yue Zou
Research Assistant III

Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science