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Steven Munger, Ph.D.

Stephan Vigues, Ph.D.

Renee Cockerham, Ph.D.

Hiroyuki Arakawa, Ph.D.

Tatsuyuki Takahashi, Ph.D.

Maartje Geraedts, Ph.D.

Cedric Uytingco, M.S.

Adam Clark, B.S.

Veronica Lopez, B.S.

Steven Munger, Ph.D.

Professor
Dr. Munger completed undergraduate studies in the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. through the Whitney Laboratory and the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida under the mentorship of Barry W. Ache. Postdoctoral training was obtained in the laboratory of Randall Reed in the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Munger joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in 2000. He is a member of the Programs in Neuroscience, Molecular Medicine, and Biochemistry, as well as the Training Program in Chemosensory Neuroscience, and the Integrative Membrane Biology Training Program.

Stephan Vigues, Ph.D.

Research Associate
Favorite taste quality: Umami
Favorite smell: Le Pié d'Angloys

My research focuses on the binding mechanisms between the sweet and umami ligands and their respective class C G-protein coupled receptor T1R2/T1R3 and T1R1/T1R3.

Renee Cockerham, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Favorite taste quality: Sweet (as evidenced by my daily intake of soda and ice cream)
Favorite smell: Noxema skin cleanser

My project involves characterizing an olfactory subsystem that lacks the typical, GPCR-based olfactory signal transduction mechanism. The cells of this subsystem express the receptor guanylyl cyclase GC-D, exhibit novel targeting to the olfactory bulb, and respond to the peptides guanylin and uroguanylin.

Tatsuyuki Takahashi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Favorite taste quality: Umami
Favorite smell: Moringa milk

Hiroyuki Arakawa, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Favorite taste quality: Umami (miso)
Favorite smell: Chronic stuffy nose (I cannot smell)

My research interest is how animals communicate through odor and how these odor communications appear to form adaptive behaviors.

Maartje Geraedts, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Favorite taste quality: Sweet
Favorite smell: Dutch apple pie

My research focuses on the sweet taste receptor T1R3 in the intestine, and how sweeteners and artificial sweeteners modulate glucose homeostasis and secretion of satiety hormones.

Cedric Uytingco, M.S.

Graduate Student,
Favorite taste quality: Sour
Favorite smell: Vanilla

My project is to look at how odorant information is processed in the olfactory bulb. Specifically, I will be examining the differences in processing between the main canonical system and the GC-D necklace subsystem.

Veronica Lopez, M.S.

Graduate Student,
Favorite taste quality:
Favorite smell:

 

Adam Clark, M.S.

Graduate Student, Toxicology
Favorite taste quality: I don't play favorites. I don't want to make anyone jealous.
Favorite smell: French fries

Past Lab Members

  • Lucy Brown, Ph.D.
  • Ted Nelson, Ph.D.
  • Hyun Jin Choi, M.S.
  • Yiling Nie, Ph.D.
  • Wendy Olson, Ph.D.
  • Shawn Dotson, Ph.D.
  • Daniel Shepherd, B.S.
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