Justin G. English, PhD

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Academic Information

Departments: Biochemistry - Assistant Professor

Academic Office Information

justin.english@biochem.utah.edu

(801) 587-1760

Biomedical Polymers Research Bldg
Biochemistry
20 S 2030 E, Room: 108B
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Labs

Education History

Graduate Training University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Pharmacology 		Ph.D.
Undergraduate Cornell University
Biology and Genetics 		B.A.

Selected Publications

  1. Fallon BS, English JG (2022). Ion-ing out the genetic variants of Kir2.1. Elife, 11.
  2. Cao C, Kang HJ, Singh I, Chen H, Zhang C, Ye W, Hayes BW, Liu J, Gumpper RH, Bender BJ, Slocum ST, Krumm BE, Lansu K, McCorvy JD, Kroeze WK, English JG, DiBerto JF, Olsen RHJ, Huang XP, Zhang S, Liu Y, Kim K, Karpiak J, Jan LY, Abraham SN, Jin J, Shoichet BK, Fay JF, Roth BL (2021). Structure, function and pharmacology of human itch GPCRs. Nature, 600(7887), 170-175.
  3. Nagai Y, Miyakawa N, Takuwa H, Hori Y, Oyama K, Ji B, Takahashi M, Huang XP, Slocum ST, DiBerto JF, Xiong Y, Urushihata T, Hirabayashi T, Fujimoto A, Mimura K, English JG, Liu J, Inoue KI, Kumata K, Seki C, Ono M, Shimojo M, Zhang MR, Tomita Y, Nakahara J, Suhara T, Takada M, Higuchi M, Jin J, Roth BL, Minamimoto T (2020). Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys. Nat Neurosci, 23(9), 1157-1167.
  4. Olsen RHJ, DiBerto JF, English JG, Glaudin AM, Krumm BE, Slocum ST, Che T, Gavin AC, McCorvy JD, Roth BL, Strachan RT (2020). TRUPATH, an open-source biosensor platform for interrogating the GPCR transducerome. Nat Chem Biol, 16(8), 841-849.
  5. Che T, English J, Krumm BE, Kim K, Pardon E, Olsen RHJ, Wang S, Zhang S, Diberto JF, Sciaky N, Carroll FI, Steyaert J, Wacker D, Roth BL (2020). Nanobody-enabled monitoring of kappa opioid receptor states. Nat Commun, 11(1), 1145.
  6. English JG, Olsen RHJ, Lansu K, Patel M, White K, Cockrell AS, Singh D, Strachan RT, Wacker D, Roth BL (2019). VEGAS as a Platform for Facile Directed Evolution in Mammalian Cells. Cell, 178(4), 1030.
  7. English JG, Roth BL (2015). Chemogenetics-A Transformational and Translational Platform. JAMA Neurol, 72(11), 1361-6.
  8. English JG, Shellhammer JP, Malahe M, McCarter PC, Elston TC, Dohlman HG (2015). MAPK feedback encodes a switch and timer for tunable stress adaptation in yeast. Sci Signal, 8(359), ra5.