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CMPR Members

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CMPR Faculty Members:

Listed in Alphabetical Order by Last Name

Name

Affiliation

Research

Contact Information
Pablo Artigas, Ph.D., Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Structure-based functional studies of P-type ATPases and their regulation pablo.artigas@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-1142
Michael P. Blanton, Ph.D., Professor    Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Structural analysis of ligand-gated channels michael.blanton@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-2425
Yangzom Bhutia, Ph.D., Associate Professor Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Transporters and its relevance to cancers Yangzom.D.Bhutia@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-1282
Dima Bolmatov, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy, TTU Soft condensed matter physics, biophysics and membrane neuroscience, with a focus on the structural and dynamical properties of lipid membranes under electric and ionic stimuli  Dima.Bolmatov@ttu.edu (806)834-8448
Luis Cuello, Ph.D., Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Structure and dynamics of ion channels luis.cuello@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-2525
Elka Georgieva, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry, TTU Structure and function of viroporins and membrane exporters of Mycobacterium tuberculosis elgeorgi@ttu.edu(806) 8348166
Lan Guan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Co-Director  Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Structures and mechanisms of secondary active transport lan.guan@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-3102
Juyang Huang, Ph.D., Professor Physics, TTU Roles of cholesterol in determining the physicochemical properties of cell membranes juyang.huang@ttu.edu(806) 834-3182
J. Josh Lawrence, Ph.D., Associate Professor Pharmacology and Neuroscience Nutrigenomics, cellular and synaptic physiology of Alzheimer’s disease, role of excitation/inhibition balance in disease states, hippocampal learning and memory circuitry, GABAergic inhibition, cell type specificity of neuromodulation, antioxidant depletion over lifespan, neuroinflammation, effects of diet on healthy aging, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics john.lawrence@ttuhsc.edu (806) 743-3887
Michaela Jansen, PharmD, Ph.D.,  Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Structures and mechanisms receptors & solute transporters and their pharmacological relevance michaela.jansen@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-4059
Andrey Karamyshev, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor Associate Director Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Membrane protein targeting, translocation/insertion and folding in health and disease andrey.karamyshev@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-4102
Zemfira Karamysheva, Ph.D., Associate Professor Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Translational control in protozoa and mammalian organisms, specialized ribosomes, molecular mechanisms of persistence and drug resistance in Leishmania parasites zemfira.karamysheva@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-3231
Michael Latham, Ph.D., Associate Professor Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota The role of conformational changes in the function of a critical DNA double strand break repair complex  
Hongjun Liang, Ph.D., Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Membrane biophysics and bionanoengineering  H.liang@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-1463
Ruibin Liang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry, TTU Quantum dynamics simulation on molecular photoswitches and water splitting rliang@ttu.edu‭(806) 834-7183
Malaiyalam Mariappan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress, Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), Ubiquitin-mediated protein quality control, Autophagy, Neurodegenerative diseases, type 2 Diabetes malaiyalam.mariappan@ttuhsc.edu(806) 743-4104
Marcos Matamoros Campos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,  Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Investigating membrane protein structural dynamics marcos.matamoros@ttuhsc.edu
(806) 743-1140
Xue Wen Ng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Investigate the spatiotemporal membrane dynamics, organization and interactions of membrane receptors in pancreatic islet cells and its implications in health and diabetes xuewen.ng@ttuhsc.edu
(806) 743-7145
Raheleh Ravanfar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry, TTU Molecular Mechanism of Metalloproteins, Bio-inspired Heterogeneous Catalysis Using Heme-containing Proteins, Targeted Delivery and Controlled Release raheleh.ravanfar@ttu.edu
(806) 834-6129
Adam Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry, TTU Receptor tyrosine kinases, cell signaling, and effects of oncogenic variants of uncertain significance aw.smith@ttu.edu
(806) 834-3551
R. Bryan Sutton, Ph.D., Professor Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥
X-ray crystallography of C2 domains of synaptotagmin and human dysferlin
(806) 743-4058
Ina Urbatsch, Ph.D., Professor Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Ï㽶ֱ²¥
Structure-function of multidrug-resistance transport proteins
(806) 743-2700T
Tetyana Vasylyeva, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Pediatrics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Nephrin in the slit diaphragm of podocytes, permeability, nephrotic syndrome, and treatment.
Michael Wiener, Ph.D., Professor, Co-Director & Department Chair Cell Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Ï㽶ֱ²¥  
Kai Zhang , Ph.D., Professor Biological Sciences, TTU, Molecular Parasitology  
kai.zhang@ttu.edu
(806) 834-0550