Event time:
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Jane Ellen Hope Memorial Building JEH
315 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT
06510
Event description:
Sudha Chakrapani received her Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai India in 1999. She then moved to the US for her doctoral work with Tony Auerbach at the University at Buffalo on single-channel kinetic studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. She then went on to do her postdoctoral research with Eduardo Perozo at University of Virginia and moved with the lab to University of Chicago. Here, she was trained in EPR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, and studied gating mechanisms in potassium channels and voltage-gated sodium channels.
In 2010, Sudha started her independent position at Case Western Reserve University.