December 2025
Congratulations to Nora!
Graduate student Nora Madaras has been awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
December 2025
Check out our latest research in press at JBC!
This manuscript uncovers new layers of “bias” among GPCR ligands.
November 2025
Congratulations to Nana!
Nana is one of 14 pre-doctoral scholars selected as a recipient of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund’s Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP).
Nana presents her research at the GDEP Diversity Workshop and New Awardees’ Meeting in Raleigh, NC.
October 2025
Halloween fun with the Chidley, Darnell, Goetz, and Tsvetanova labs
ChatGPT picked our lab’s pumpkin as the “Scariest”!
September 2025
Congratulations to Haleigh!
Haleigh was awarded a slot in the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (PSTP)!
September 2025
Welcome to Haleigh!
Haleigh is joining our lab from the Biology Ph.D. program!
July 2025
Chem-SURF Research Symposium
Anna presents her research at the conclusion of the Chem-SURF program.
June 2025
Congratulations to Anna!
Undergraduate Anna Drozman received a Chem-SURF fellowship and will be working with us full-time this summer!
May 2025
Congratulations to Pooja!
Our postdoc Pooja Sridhar is beginning a position at Stereo Biotherapeutics, an exciting new biotech startup. We are excited for her but will miss having her here! Good luck, Pooja!
April 2025
Duke Undergraduate Research Symposium
Ura and Rebecca presented posters about their research in our lab.
April 2025
ASPET 2025, Portland, OR
Laura and Lauren Slosky (U Minn) co-chaired a session on the “Emergent Pharmacology of Allosteric GPCR Ligands.” Our fantastic speakers attracted a standing-room only crowd!
January 2025
Congratulations to Rebecca and Ura!
Both have received awards to support their undergraduate research. Rebecca will be supported by an Undergraduate Research Support Assistantship, and Ura received an Undergraduate Research Independent Study Grant!
December 2024
White Elephant gift exchange with the Tsvetanova Lab
December 2024
Congratulations to Nana!
Graduate student Nana Acheampong has been awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship!
November 2024
Congratulations to Nora!
Graduate student Nora Madaras received a Duke School of Medicine Precision Genomics Collaboratory-Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education graduate student pilot research grant!
October 2024
Annual PCB Halloween Party
The Minions won first place in the departmental costume contest for the second year in a row!
The making of Vector
October 2024
Welcome Anna and Ura!
Duke undergraduates Anna Drozman (Chemistry) and Ura Zhang (Biology) are beginning to do research in our lab!
September 2024
PCB Departmental Retreat, Wrightsville Beach, NC,
Pooja represents the lab at the scientific sessions.
July 2024
SURPH Presentations
Alex presents his summer research at the conclusion of his SURPH experience before heading back to Colorado!
June 2024
Nana and Matt head to New England for their first Gordon Research Conferences!
Nana at the Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks GRC
Matt walked away with a poster award at the Chemotactic Cytokines GRC! Congrats!
May 2024
Welcome to Alex! 
Our first undergraduate summer student is spending the next few months with us through the Summer Undergraduate Research in Pharmacology & Cancer Biology (SURPH) program!
May 2024
Department Kickball Game: Pharmacology vs. Molecular Cancer Biology
Matt makes a homer!
April 2024
ASPET 2024
Nora, Laura, and Pooja enjoyed the science and networking in Washington, D.C.!
March 2024
Welcome to Nora, who is joining our lab from the Pharmacology Ph.D. program!
January 2024
Welcome to Rebecca, our first undergraduate student!
December 2023
Congratulations to Brandi and Amanda!
Their new manuscript is available online at Molecular Pharmacology. This has been a wonderful collaboration with the Cheloha lab at NIH/NIDDK!
October 2023
Annual PCB Halloween Party
Our lab racked up the ribbons this year!
Winner of “The Most Scientific Pumpkin” Category: The Dangers of Mouth Pipetting
First Place in Costume Contest: Scooby Doo and the Story of the Haunted Laboratory
September 2023
PCB Departmental Retreat, Wrightsville Beach, NC
Having fun at the party after two days of amazing science!
August 2023
Introducing our newly minted PhD CANDIDATES!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to Matt and Nana on acing your prelims!
August 2023
Bowling with the Tsvetanova Lab
Welcoming our two newest members, Amanda and Pooja!
Matt and Amanda celebrate strikes!
July 2023
BioCoRE Symposium
Matt and Nana present their award-winning posters!
Photo credits: Les Todd
May 2023
Sending Brandi off to grad school!
May 2023
ASPET 2023
Duke at ASPET 2023- Tsvetanova and Wingler Labs
Matt, Nana, and Laura at ASPET
Nana presents her poster at ASPET 2023!
October 2022
Annual PCB Halloween Party
Brandi and Matt prepare to represent the lab in the Annual PCB Pumpkin-Carving Contest.
May 2022
The Wingler Lab has doubled in size this semester with the addition of graduate students Nana and Matt!
