When   Tuesday, December 1, 2009   Time   12:45 PM - 1:45 PM  
Where   Pancoe Auditorium 1101 Pancoe   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Danielle Burhop   847-491-5521  
Group   Neurobiology & Physiology

http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=55

Dr. Swartz received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Biology in 1986 from Eastern Mennonite College. In 1992 he received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard University where he worked with Bruce Bean studying the regulation of voltage-gated calcium channels by G-proteins and protein kinases. He did postdoctoral training with Roderick MacKinnon at Harvard Medical School, where he began isolating and studying toxins that interact with voltage-activated potassium channels. Dr. Swartz joined NINDS as an Investigator in 1997 and was promoted to Senior Investigator in 2003. His laboratory is using biochemical, molecular biological and biophysical techniques to investigate the structure of voltage-activated ion channels and to explore the molecular mechanics by which these channels gate.