{"id":6026,"date":"2026-02-23T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6026"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:41:04","slug":"seminar-with-irina-kufareva-phd-uc-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/event\/seminar-with-irina-kufareva-phd-uc-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar with Irina Kufareva, PhD (UC San Diego)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>In person only<\/em>\u00a0|\u00a0Hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/yinglong-miao\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-outlook-id=\"25dd9dd7-de09-409e-86e9-27b3f353bd87\">Dr.Yinglong Miao<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Research Summary: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kufareva.ucsd.edu\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-outlook-id=\"897bec6c-36d1-44c9-b0b5-ca68d0e2ff92\">The Kufareva lab<\/a>\u00a0studies structural, molecular, and architectural principles of cell responses to stimuli and drugs via computational approaches. Our work is mostly focused on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). We use conventional and AI-powered molecular modeling to unlock the therapeutic potential of orphan and understudied GPCRs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6027 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1656\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-scaled.png 1656w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-994x1536.png 994w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-1325x2048.png 1325w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/852\/2026\/02\/IRINA-600x927.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1656px) 100vw, 1656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>ABOUT THE SPEAKER:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Irina Kufareva, PhD, Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC San Diego<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Education: <\/strong>S.c. laude M.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science (1994) from Tomsk State University, Russia; Ph.D. in Computer Science (2000) from Tomsk State University, Russia<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Postdoctoral training: <\/strong>Computational Structural Biology (2004-2009), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Selected Professional Experiences: <\/strong>Editorial Board member, npj Drug Discovery (2024-present), NIH DMPB study section standing member and alternate chair (2023-2025); NIH DDNS study section, standing member (2022); NIH BPNS study section, standing member (2021); co-organizer, community-wide GPCR Dock assessments (2010, 2013, 2021); ad hoc reviewer for NSF CLP PSD panel (2019) and NIH NCF study section (2017).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Selected Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Recipient of the UC San Diego VCHS Excellence Award in Mentorship, Service and Research<\/li>\n<li>Invited presentations at the CHI Discovery On Target Conference, Boston, MA (2022), Gordon Research Conference on Mol. Pharmacology, Ventura, CA (2019), 256th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA (2018), 5th Hawaiian GPCR workshop, Kona, Hawaii (2017), ASCEPT-MPGPCR Joint Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, Australia (2016), and others.<\/li>\n<li>Work featured in Nature News &amp; Views (2016), Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (2016), Science Perspectives (2015), Biopolymers (2014), and UC San Diego HS Newsroom (on several occasions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In person only\u00a0|\u00a0Hosted by Dr.Yinglong Miao Research Summary: The Kufareva lab\u00a0studies structural, molecular, and architectural principles of cell responses to stimuli and drugs via computational approaches. Our work is mostly focused on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). We use conventional and AI-powered molecular modeling to unlock the therapeutic potential of orphan and understudied GPCRs. &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/event\/seminar-with-irina-kufareva-phd-uc-san-diego\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seminar with Irina Kufareva, PhD (UC San Diego)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67838,"featured_media":6028,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[9],"class_list":["post-6026","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-seminar","cat_seminar","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seminar with Irina Kufareva, PhD (UC San Diego) | Computational Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/event\/seminar-with-irina-kufareva-phd-uc-san-diego\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seminar with Irina Kufareva, PhD (UC San Diego) | Computational Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In person only\u00a0|\u00a0Hosted by Dr.Yinglong Miao Research Summary: The Kufareva lab\u00a0studies structural, molecular, and architectural principles of cell responses to stimuli and drugs via computational approaches. 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