Calcium Signals

Dr Leslie S. Satin is the Joanne I. Moore Endowed Research Professor of Pharmacology of the University of Michigan Medical School. He obtained his PhD from UCLA in the laboratory of D. Junge and conducted postdoctoral work at Stony Brook University with P. R. Adams and at the University of Washington, Seattle, with D. Cook. His research has focused on calcium signaling, ion channels, oscillations, and stimulus-secretion coupling in pancreatic beta cells.

Manu Ben-Johny is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University. He received a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics from Saint Louis University, and subsequently completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of David Yue. His lab focuses on the biophysics and physiology of voltage-gated sodium and calcium ion channels that shape cardiac and neuronal action potentials and in developing nature-inspired approaches to manipulate ion channel function.

Ivy Dick is an assistant professor in the Physiology Department at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. She began her career under the direction of Drs. Charles Cohen and Owen McManus at Merck Research Labs and subsequently earned her doctoral degree under the direction of Dr. David Yue in the Biomedical Engineering department at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied the mechanisms underlying calmodulin regulation of voltage-gated calcium channels. Dr. Dick's current research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of voltage-gated calcium channel regulation, and how genetic mutations disrupt channel function.