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Baylor College of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Welcome to the Wensel laboratory. Our research includes the following areas:
Visual transduction Gene repair in neurons
G protein pathways and proteins that regulate them in the retina and the brain Time-resolved fluorescence and luminescence
RGS proteins: GAPs for heterotrimeric G proteins Electron and x-ray crystallography
Biomembranes Gene engineering in mice and frogs
Ocular Proteomics TRP Channels
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Laboratory Personnel

GRADUATE STUDENTS POSTDOCS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
(mail) Feng He(mail)
Ben Tobe (mail) Zhixian Zhang (mail)
Monica Galaz Montoya (mail) Gustavo Javier Rodriguez (mail)
Zheng Wang (mail) Arundhati Chattodpadhyay (mail)
Jared Gilliam (mail) (mail)
Ivette Sandoval (mail) Deb Mojumder (mail)
Hye Jin Kang (mail) Melina Agosto (mail)
UNDERGRADUATES TECHNICIANS & RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
James Vranish, 2005, Notre Dame University (now TAMU) (mail) (mail)
Carlos Ballester, 2003, U. Puerto Rico(now BCM)(mail) Fung Chan (mail)
Lexi Tran, 2007, Wake Forest U. (mail) PROGRAMMER
  apply if interested: email to Ted Wensel
   

ALUMNI
Joe Angleson (Assoc. Prof., University of Denver)
Chris Cowan (Asst. Prof., UTSW Med. Ctr. Dallas)
 Wei He (Principal Scientist, Hoffmann-La Roche)
Alecia Gross (Asst. Prof. Univ. Alabama, Birmingham)
Guang Hu (NIEHS)
Justine Malinski at Invitrogen
Tom Melia (Asst. Prof. Yale U.)
Vera Moiseenkova-Bell (Asst. Prof. Case Western Reserve)
Brian Perkins (Asst. Prof., Texas A & M Univ.)
Mat Sowa (Harper lab, Harvard)
 Karen Vasquez (Assoc. Prof. MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.)
Zhaohuai Yang/Joe Ouyang(UC San Diego)
Ching Yuan (Asst. Prof., University of Minnesota)
Xue Zhang (Genomics Inst., Novartis Rsch. Found.)
Qiong Wang (Fulbright & Jaworski)
James Mancuso (Augustine Lab, Duke Singapore)

Positions Available

Postdoctoral  Fellows (training grant eligible)
Mass Spectrometrist
Research Technicians
Graduate Students
Scientific Programmer
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Requests for Materials

should be made by sending email to Ted Wensel . Please include FEDEX address and account #.

Affiliated Training Programs and Research Centers

Research Facilities and Instrumentation

Laser induced time-resolved  spectrofluorimeter
Two UV/Vis spectrophotometers
Olis upgrade to SLM 4800 spectrofluorimeter
Fluorescence Microscopes:
  Olympus IX-70 and Digital Imaging System &
   Fluoview confocal scanner/photobleaching system
  Zeiss LSM 510 (Vision Research Core)
  Delta Vision Deconvolution Microscope (Dept. of Biochemistry)
  Nikon C1 adapted for confocal/2 photon/patch clamp(with Peter Saggau) J. Biomed. Opt. 14:034048
Langmuir/Blodgett monolayer/multilayer instrument
Liposome Extrusion Instruments
Two dark laboratories with infrared imaging
Electron microscopes (in NCMI & Dept. of Ophthalmology)
Proteome X System: LC/MS proteomics system with Voyager Capillary HPLC and Thermo
Finnigan Deca XP LCQ ESI MS
Microm HM 500 cryomicrotome
Vibratome
Microfluidizer
Fermentor: New Brunswick BF-10 20 L, sterilize-in-place
HPLC: 1 Shimadzu w/diode array & fluorsecence detectors and high-capacity autosampler, 1 Waters, 1 Beckman, 1 Voyager Capillary LC
Synergy HT absorbance/fluorescence/luminescence plate reader
Computers:
  20 PC/Intel/Windows/Linux boxes
  2 SGI in lab; 2 MAC
  

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