MPPB Faculty :: Brown University

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- Wayne Bowen
- Dept Chair, Professor of Biology, Co-director of MPP Graduate Program
- We study sigma receptors, proteins found throughout the body. They bind several classes of psychoactive drugs. Activation of sigma-2 receptors causes programmed cell death (apoptosis). We are trying to understand the underlying more>>
- Edward Hawrot
- Alva O. Way University Professor of Medical Science
- We pursue biochemical and pharmacological studies aimed at understanding the fundamental structure-function relationship of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). We also study the molecular basis for the highly specific recognition more>>
- Julie Kauer
- Professor
- My laboratory focuses on understanding molecular mechanisms involved in synaptic plasticity and modulation of neuronal excitability using modern electrophysiological techniques in brain slices. Our work is related to understanding more>>
- John Marshall
- Professor
- In response to hormonal or synaptic stimulation, excitable cells (including smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and neurons) undergo a diversity of changes in their electrical properties. My lab is studying the trafficking and localization of more>>
- Anita L. Zimmerman
- Professor
- Our research is in molecular and cellular aspects of the nervous system, with an emphasis on ion channels and the early stages of vision in rods and cones. An ion channel is a membrane protein with an internal pore that opens in response more>>