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The Chanda lab is happy to welcome our newest member Dr. Suhaila Rahman as a Staff Scientist!

The lab gathers with friends and family over delicious food and drinks to wish Vinay the best of luck on his next adventure!

Come see our research, “Structural Basis for Hyperpolarization-dependent Opening of the Human HCN1 Channel” here in bioRxiv!

The lab gathers with friends and family over delicious food and drinks to wish Willy the best of luck on his next adventure!

The lab gathers with friends and family over delicious food and drinks to wish Brian the best of luck on his next adventure!

Come see our new paper, “Interplay between VSD, pore, and membrane lipids in electromechanical coupling in HCN channels” here!

Come see our new paper, “Strategies for Overcoming the Single-Molecule Concentration Barrier” here!

Come see our paper, “Charge-voltage curves of Shaker potassium channel are not hysteretic at steady state” here!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome new lab members Dr. Kathleen Bickel and Grace Sugrue! Kathleen joins the lab as a Regional & Ambulatory Anesthesia Fellow and Grace as an undergraduate researcher!

Come see our work on acylated and alkylated benzo(crown-ethers) in biological membranes here!

Come see our protocol on preparation of giant E. coli spheroplasts for electrophysiological recordings here!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome new lab members Dr. Susovan Roy Chowdhury and Dr. Arghya Polley as postdoctoral researchers!

The lab gathers with friends and family over delicious food and drinks to wish John the best of luck on his next adventure!

Come see our latest work on cAMP binding to full-length HCN channels here!

Check out the review on electromechanical coupling in voltage-gated ion channels here!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome new lab members Brian Lu and Ram Rallapalli! Brian joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher and Ram as a research technician!

Check out the new PNAS paper on temperature-dependent gating here!

The lab gathers with friends and family over delicious food and drinks to wish Debanjan the best of luck on his next adventure!

Check out the new eLife paper on MthK here!

The lab gathers with friends and family to wish Yihao the best of luck on his next adventure!

The lab gathers over Zoom with friends to wish David the best of luck on his next adventure!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome Theresa Harter and Dr. Yongchang Chang! Theresa joins us as lab manager and Dr. Chang as senior scientist!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome Dr. Verena Burtscher! Verena joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

Check out our new eLife paper on single-molecule analysis here!

Dr. Chanda has accepted an exciting offer to join the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis! The lab will be moving in April 2020. See you in the Show-Me State!

Check out the new eLife paper now online!

The Chanda lab is happy to welcome Dr. Vinay Idikuda! Vinay joins us as a postdoctoral researcher!

Our new paper on the NMR structural analysis of the isolated voltage-sensing domain from Shaker is now online!See it here!

We are excited to announce that our new single-molecule analysis software DISC is now available on GitHub! We have posted a pre-print of our manuscript describing this incredibly fast and accurate method on bioRxiv! Links: Download DISC here  Read our paper here

See our new publication on the mechanism underlying the hyperpolarization activation of HCN channels in PNAS!

The Chanda lab is happy to welcome our new members! Dr. Willy Carrasquel-Ursulaez  joins as a postdoctoral researcher and Jenna Lin is a first year graduate student in the Biophysics Training Program.

During the 2018 Annual Biophysics Colloquium on campus, Yihao won the Best Senior Student Poster Presentation. Congratulations and good job!

The Chanda lab welcomes our two new undergraduate researchers in the lab! Stephan is a senior undergraduate in biochemistry and Owen is a sophomore majoring in physics (and maybe mathematics, too). Both will be working with Ruohan and David on various aspects of the single-molecule projects in the lab.

New JGP paper now online! In this study, Dr. Claudia Alvarez-Baron and Dr. Vadim A. Klenchin explore what underlies the molecular basis for increased cAMP efficacy in HCN2 channels using a mutagenesis, electrophysiology, and kinetic modeling. See the paper here!

Our new publication in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology is now online!  This study was led by Dr. Ana I. Fernandez-Marino and aided by a  fruitful collaboration with Dr. Lucie Delemotte lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.  See the paper here.

The SMPH Tenure Track Promotions Committee met and recommended that Dr. Baron Chanda be promoted to Professor. Congratulations, Baron!

The Chanda lab is excited to welcome two new additions to the group! Debanjan joins us a doctoral researcher and Nandinin as a research intern!

After a semester study in Paris, Alex, an undergrad in the lab, has suffered enough with the wine and happily came back for the fascinating science (and beer). Welcome back Alex, we miss you!

Second collaboration between Ed Chapman’s lab and Chanda lab led by Huan and Debasis of Chapman lab gets to Nature. Yihao from Chanda lab helps with developing the single fusion pore recording. Fresh online, take a look!

It is bittersweet for the Chanda lab to say farewell to our  Dr. Marcel P. Goldschen-Ohm as he begins the next step in his career as an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Texas-Austin! Marcel joined the Chanda lab in September of 2009 and has had many scientific accomplishments, specifically in the use of  single-molecule methods to probe ion channel gating. We wish […]

The Chanda lab is happy to welcome our first year rotation students Wu Lanxi (Biophysics Program) and Alex Duckworth (IPIB)!

The Chanda lab is thrilled to welcome our newest post-doc, Ruohan Zhang! Ruohan comes from ASU where he did his PhD under Dr. Timoth Steimle using spectroscopic methods to study the rotational and vibrational structures of small metal-containing molecules in the gas phase. Ruohan joins David in being  jointly advised  between Baron and Randall Goldsmith and aims to […]

A recent interview with Baron from the Biophysical Journal is now online! Baron is an editor for Biophysical Journal’s Channels and Transporters section. PDF

The Chanda lab welcomes a new summer rotation student, Stanford Mitchell. Stanford will be (officially) starting at UW-Madison this upcoming fall semester in the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology program.

John has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship from UW’s Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC). Congratulations!

Our undergraduate researcher Alex Blair has been awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate Research Award! Way to go Alex!