Welcome to the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics of School of
Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The department consists
of an interactive group of faculty, staff, postdoctoral trainees, and students. Our
central missions are high-quality biomedical research, education of medical and graduate
students, and service to the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences,
and Health Sciences Center as a whole. Our main research interests are biological
membranes and membrane proteins, with a focus on molecular mechanisms in health and
disease, as well as applications to medicine and biotechnology. Our department has
a state-of-the-art Membrane Protein Core Laboratory that provides support to our laboratories
and other laboratories across TTUHSC and TTU. Our department also houses the multidisciplinary
Center for Membrane Protein Research, which involves faculty from seven departments
at TTUHSC and TTU. I encourage you to contact us if you need additional information.
Lan Guan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Chair
Recent and Upcoming Seminar Speakers
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Mechanism of iron transport and regulation in ferroportin”
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University of New York
“Cryo-EM reveals allosteric couplings responsible for channel gating in human CFTR
and the structural basis of their impairment by the F508del mutation"
Room 1C125A&B, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Department of Bioscience
Sandia National Laboratories
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Associate Professor
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Room 1C100 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry & Physiology
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Loyola University Chicago
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Washington
Room 1C100, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Physiology
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico School of Medicine
Room 1C100, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Alberta
Room 1C100, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Assistant Professor
Structural Biology of Membrane Transport
University of Minnesota, Hormel Institute
Room 1C100, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
