Structural Biology
Structural biology in neuroscience is the field that studies the three-dimensional structures of biological molecules in the nervous system and how those structures determine neural function, communication, and disease.
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Appointments and titles
- Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute
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Areas of interest
- x-ray crystallography and electrophysiology
- cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
- sodium channels
- ion channels
- channel assembly, channel gating, and ion selectivity
- protein biochemistry
- structural biology
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Appointments and titles
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
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Areas of interest
- Cell Biology, Organelle Dynamics, Bacterial Infection, Protein Structure, Membrane Remodeling, Computational Biology, Cryoelectron Microscopy, Cryoelectron Tomography
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Appointments and titles
- Professor, Vollum Institute
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Areas of interest
- chemical synapses and synaptic transmission
- glutamate receptors
- neurotransmitter transporters
- ligand-gated ion channels
- cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
- x-ray crystallography
- membrane proteins
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Appointments and titles
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine
- Associate Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
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Areas of interest
- Structural biology
- Ion Channels
- G-protein coupled receptors
- Structure-based drug design
- Purinergic receptors
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Appointments and titles
- Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute
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Areas of interest
- mechanotransduction
- ion channels
- electrophysiology
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Appointments and titles
- Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
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Areas of interest
- Ion channel regulation
- Insulin secretion regulation in health and disease
- Pancreatic beta-cell biology and signaling
- Pharmacological chaperones
- Structural biology of potassium channels
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Appointments and titles
- Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine
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Areas of interest
- Unnatural amino acid mutagenesis of membrane proteins
- Ion conduction and voltage gating in K+ channels
- Transport mechanism in glutamate transporters
- Folding of membrane proteins
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