Tamara Mocking is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Academic center for drug research (LACDR), Leiden university.  She studied biopharmaceutical sciences (Bsc & Msc) at Leiden university and obtained her PhD working on modulation of GPCR signaling using light sensitive-molecules containing a photoswitchable moiety as tools to influence GPCR activity with light at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the group of Prof dr. Rob Leurs. Currently, she a postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. Laura Heitman where her main focus is to aid in the development of novel label free assays to study Solute Carrier proteins (SLCs). This family of transporter proteins are currently underappreciated due to a lack of available tools to study these membrane proteins. However, these SLC have a great potential as novel therapeutic targets, as they facilitate transport of a large variety of molecules ( i.e. drugs, neurotransmitters, hormones, ions ect.) across the cell membrane and, thereby regulate cellular homeostasis. Within the ReSOLUTE consortium we aim to enhance SLC research by developing novel tools and assays to study and deorphanize this class of transporter proteins.