Team Members

The Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC) is composed of 27 investigators from 17 institutions in three different countries. For contact information and to find out more about the specific research performed by these investigators and their group, please visit their profile pages. Links to their respective cores and projects, and recent Consortium-related publications are provided as well.

Eduardo Perozo

Principal Investigator

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago

Chris Ahern

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Ivet Bahar

Professor and John K. Vries Chair, Department of Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Marc Baldus

Professor, Bijvoet Institute for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University

Francisco Bezanilla

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago

Olga Boudker

Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College

James Bowie

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Virginia Cornish

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

Volker Dötsch

Professor, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goethe University

Steve Goldstein

Provost and Professor of Biochemistry, Brandeis University

Claudio Grosman

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Miguel Holmgren

Senior Investigator, Molecular Neurophysiology Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health.

Wonpil Im

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Bioinformatics, The University of Kansas

Jonathan Javitch

Lieber Professor of Experimental Therapeutics (in Psychiatry) and Professor of Pharmacology in the Center for Molecular Recognition, Columbia University

Lewis Kay

Professor, Departments of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of Toronto

Steve Kent

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago

Shohei Koide

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago

Anthony Kossiakoff

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago

Merritt Maduke

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

Hassane Mchaourab

Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics; Professor of Physics & Chemistry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Robert Nakamoto

Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia

Andrzej Rajca

Charles Bessey Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska

Benoît Roux

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago

Emad Tajkhorshid

Professor of Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Computational Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Harel Weinstein

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Chairman, Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Director, Institute for Computational Biomedicine Tri-institutional Professor (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Sloan-Kettering, Rockefeller University), Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Martin Zanni

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin

Ming Zhou

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Baylor College of Medicine

Francis Valiyaveetil

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University