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Visit from Dr. Teresa Giraldez Fernandez!

Friend and fellow ion channel enthusiast Dr. Teresa Giraldez Fernandez from the Department of Biomedical Research Universidad de La Laguna visits Madison! In addition to giving a fantastic talk, she was treated to a day out ice fishing with the lab! See photos here!

Marcel honored as a Postdoctoral Reviewer for JGP

Marcel Goldschen-Ohm has definitely been busy! Among writing many of his own papers, he found the time review a number many as well for the  Journal of General Physiology- more so than any other postdoctoral reviewer!  Here, JGP Editor-in-Chief Sharona E. Gordono presents Marcel with an award for  Postdoctoral Reviewer for Reviewed the Most Manuscripts […]

BPS 2017!

The Chanda group attends the 61st Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana!  Check out our gallery from the week in NOLA here!

New Student!

The Chanda group is pleased to welcome a new graduate student – Prasanth Kumar! Welcome!

Way to go Claudia!

Claudia is a proud recipient of the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship! Great job Claudia!!

eLIFE Paper Published!

Co-first authors Marcel and Dima publish their paper in eLIFE where they combine single-molecule binding dynamics and a novel crystal structure to understand how cAMP binds to monomeric cyclic nucleotide binding domains of HCN2 channels. This also marks the first paper for both John and David from the lab! Congratulations all!

Farewell party for Ana!

We bid farewell to our postdoc Ana over drinks and food at the Great Dane Pub! Ana will be starting a second postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Kenton Swartz at NIH. We will miss you Ana and best of luck!

Farewells and Introductions

We are sad to see our undergraduate lab technican Zach leave but are happy to welcome his replacement, Natalie! Natalie is a first year undergraduate student in pursuit of biomedical engineering. Welcome Natalie!

Summer BBQ

Summer BBQ at Baron’s house with friends and colleagues from UW.

The lab sets sail!

The Chanda lab enjoys a day sailing on Lake Mendota captained by our very own undergraduate Alex!

Lab Outing!

The Chanda lab visits Union South for a day of cake, beer, and bowling!

Collaborative work leads to NSMB cover article!

In collaboration with Ed Chapman’s lab here at UW-Madison, Marcel helped to demonstrate that exocytic fusion pores are composed of both lipids and proteins. This article was featured as the cover of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology for the December 2015 issue!

Congratulations Dr. Kevin Oelstrom

Kevin has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Understanding the Gating Mechanisms of Voltage-dependent Sodium and Potassium Channels”. Kevin will soon be starting his new position at Ceullar Dynamics International with former Chanda lab member, Brian. Congratulations Kevin! You will be greatly missed!

New Student!

David White has joined the lab from the Neuroscience Training Program and will be jointly-advised by Baron and Randall Goldsmith from the Department of Chemistry. Welcome David!

New Undergraduate Researcher

Alex Blair joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Alex is a sophmore majoring in Biology.

NSMB News & Views from Marcel

Marcel’s commetary “How to open a proton-pore more than S4” has been published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Welcome Hongbo!

Hongbo Chen joins the Chanda lab as a co-advised student with Katherine Henzler-Wildmann. Hongbo will be using NMR to tease apart ion channel structure-function. Welcome!

New Graduate Students!

The Chanda lab is happy to welcome two new graduate students from the Biophysics Graduate Program- John Cowgill and Yihao Jiang!

Lab Outing

The Chanda lab goes laser tagging!!

Welcome Claudia!

Dr. Claudia P. Alvarez-Baron joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome!