Sombers Lab

Heck yassssss!!!! We got another journal cover!!! Beautiful work by Jenna Berger Martyr and Dylan Denison deserves the spotlight!!! 💪💪💪

ACS Chemical Neuroscience features Dr. Sombers’ research as cover art » Department of Cellular and Systems Pharmacology » College of Pharmacy » University of Florida ACS Chemical Neuroscience selected artwork from Dr. Leslie Sombers’ latest publication to appear on the journal’s cover in May 2026.

Hot new paper out!!! 🔥 This one describes the latest in our relentless quest to monitor and understand the enkephalins.....

This study was led by Jenna Berger Martyr and Dylan Denison working in collaboration with the lab at Illinois. It combines electrochemical monitoring of exocytosis with mass spectrometry to characterize the temporal complexity and chemical diversity of peptide participants in opioid signaling. Go team!!! 💪💪💪

Profiling Endogenous Opioid Peptide Release from Adrenal Chromaffin Cells Despite longstanding recognition that the adrenal medulla is a major source of both catecholamines and opioid peptides, direct measurements of opioid peptide release kinetics─and characterization of the full complexity of the peptidergic forms released─remain under studied. Here, this gap is add...

Best of luck to Jovica Todorov, who is beginning a new position with Shelley Minteer's lab at Missouri S&T. We miss him already, and can't wait to see what he accomplishes in this new role! Go Jovica!!

is a wrap! Great talks and lots of shenanigans in San Antonio. And.. Remember the Alamo!! 🤠 Kayleigh Linder Kalynn Turner Jovica Todorov