Participants

Principal participants in the Center for the Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins are listed below, along with their areas of expertise.

Team Member Institution Areas of Expertise and Contribution to Project
R. Michael Garavito, Director Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Expression, purification, and crystallization of membrane proteins
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lipid characterization using mass spectrometry
David DeWitt Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Cloning and expression methods for membrane proteins in mammalian cells
Suzanne Thiem Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Cloning and expression methods in insect cells
Christoph Benning Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biochemistry and genetics of lipid biosynthesis
Andreas Weber Department of Plant Biology Cloning, expressing, and purifying solute transport proteins
Mark Worden Department of Chemical Engineering membrane protein expression, cyclic voltammetry