@ChandaLab06

Ion Channel Biophysicist. Loves greasy proteins. Fluorescence spectroscopy, Single molecule dynamics, Electrophysiology, Thermodynamics.

 St. Louis, MO, USA
chandalab.wustl.edu
Joined January 2019
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Announcing the second round of 2025 SGP Rising Star Travel Awards for students and postdocs. The $500 awards can be used for meetings held up to 1 year from notification. Apply today! Deadline: 31 December 2025 sgpweb.org/awards/risingstar
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Baron Chanda retweeted
BaoLab@HuanBao426 Aug 2025
Our DeFrND approach is finally published. A simple trick to isolate membrane proteins with native lipids for structural and functional characterization. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…

DeFrND: detergent-free reconstitution into native nanodiscs with designer membrane scaffold peptides

Nature Communications - To bypass the limitations of detergents, Ren et al. developed peptide scaffolds that extract membrane proteins directly into lipid nanodiscs, preserving the native...

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Tickets to the 12th JGP-SGP Mixer are going fast! Join us in LA to connect with fellow SGP members. There is no charge to attend, but you must be an SGP member and register at sgp-jgp2025mixer.eventbrite.…. To join SGP, please visit sgpweb.org/membership.
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SGP congratulates Dr. Huanghe Yang on receiving the 2025 Paul F. Cranefield Award for his outstanding paper, “Niclosamide potentiates TMEM16A and induces vasoconstriction” doi.org/10.1085/jgp.20231346…
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SGP congratulates Dr. Man Si on receiving the 2025 Cranefield Postdoctoral Fellow Award for her outstanding paper, “Epilepsy-associated Kv1.1 channel subunits regulate intrinsic cardiac pacemaking in mice” doi.org/10.1085/jgp.20241357…
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SGP congratulates Dr. Rachael Lucero on receiving the 2025 Cranefield Student Award for her outstanding paper, “Transport of metformin metabolites by guanidinium exporters of the small multidrug resistance family” doi.org/10.1085/jgp.20231346…
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Baron Chanda retweeted
BaoLab@HuanBao416 Nov 2024
Happy to introduce DeFrND: designer peptide scaffolds to enable detergent-free reconstitution of membrane proteins with native lipids into nanodiscs for biochemical and structural studies. Let me know if you would like to try it. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

DeFrND: detergent-free reconstitution into native nanodiscs with designer membrane scaffold peptides

Membrane scaffold proteins-based nanodiscs (NDs) have facilitated unprecedented structural and biophysical analysis of membrane proteins in a near-native lipid environment. However, successful...

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Just 3 weeks until SGP 2024! You can still submit an abstract to present a poster if you🚨submit and register by 15 August at sgp2024.com🚨Join us to hear great talks by Rachelle Gaudet @RachelleGaudet, Josefina del Mármol @MarmolJosefina, and many more!
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📣Apply now for SGP's ⭐️2024 Excelsior Award⭐️ for exceptional early career scientists under-represented in physiology and biophysics. 💫💫Find out more 👉 sgpweb.org/awards/excelsior. Ready to apply? visit 👉 bit.ly/sgp2024excelsior.
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This week's research seminar features Dr. Hiro Furukawa from @CSHL. Details below ⬇️ 📆 Tuesday, March 12 ⏰ 4:00 p.m. 🔬 "Dissecting functions and pharmacology of molecular machines mediating neurotransmission" 📍 HOLDEN Auditorium (FLTC) anesthesiology.wustl.edu/eve…
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Dr. John Del Rosario, a postdoc in @robgereau's lab, has been honored with the prestigious Excelsior Award from @sgpweb! Congratulations, Dr. Del Rosario! sites.wustl.edu/gereaulab/so…
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Ion channel people! Consider applying for the Ion Channel GRS/GRC happening this summer! I’m happy to be co-chairing the GRS with @AnabelFMarinho. We’ll definitely make it a fun one! Apply here: grc.org/ion-channels-grs-con… grc.org/ion-channels-confere…
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Very soon, we will start the first and unique Worldwide Sodium Channel Conference in the Alps #Grindelwald #Switzerland. The final program is out sodiumchannelseminars.org/So… Want to know how much snow we have? Here is the webcam: jungfrau.ch/fr-ch/live/webca… #IonChannels #SodiumChannels
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Join us online for the 9th SGP-EpIC Seminar featuring Alexandria Miller speaking on "Viral Ion Channels." Register at sgp-epic-seminars.com
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Join us at tomorrow's SGP Business Meeting to learn about the Society's 2023 activities and get a preview of the 2024 Meeting and other upcoming events. A Q&A session will follow. Register at bit.ly/sgp2023business. Members only. Visit sgpweb.org/membership to join or renew.
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👉 bit.ly/471lQcX Check out the@sgpweb@JGenPhysiol 2024 Junior Faculty Network with mentor Janice L. Robertson (@RobertsonWUSTL) of@WUSTLmed
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Congratulations to the outstanding researchers and scientists for achieving the No. 3 ranking in @NIH funding! We’re fortunate to work alongside such outstanding clinicians and scientists. #washuanesthesia @WashUanesthesia @WUSTLmed anesthesiology.wustl.edu/dep…

Department ranks in top 3 in NIH research funding in 2022 | Anesthesiology | Washington University...

According to the latest data compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ranked No. 3 among...

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Baron Chanda retweeted
Vladimir Y-Y@vyy_sf28 Dec 2022
Computational protein design inspired by nature and guided by structural biology and experimental data to develop novel therapeutics to treat pain. #nihHEALinitiative #ucdavis #UCDavisMed #ucdavishealth #pain #OpioidCrisis doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81727

Computational design of peptides to target NaV1.7 channel with high potency and selectivity for the...

Rationally designed peptide inhibitors of human voltage-gated channels have transformative potential to define a new class of biologics to treat pain.

elifesciences.org
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And we are proud of @PopStarLab her contributions to our science, our society, and making the lives of ALL scientists better! 👏👏👏
Jacobs School at University at Buffalo@Jacobs_Med_UB25 Oct 2022
Internationally known researcher Gabriela Popescu, PhD, has been recognized for her efforts to improve equity & inclusivity in the fields of #physiology & #biophysics! 🎉 @sgpweb has chosen @PopStarLab to receive the 2022 Sharona Gordon Award: buff.ly/3TyPRtz #UBuffalo
Dr. Popescu stands in the lobby of @jacobs_med_ub in #Buffalo

ALT Dr. Popescu stands in the lobby of @jacobs_med_ub in #Buffalo

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Wonderful news! If I had to pick a favourite paper of his, it'd be the one about ancient ion channels, of course ;-) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize3 Oct 2022
BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
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