Areas of Basic and Applied Membrane Sciences

The four general areas represented by the members of the Center are:

• Structure Determination & Biophysical Characterization;
• Membrane Transport and Intracellular Trafficking;
• Membrane Receptors & Signaling Networks;
• Methods Development & Applications of Membrane Systems.

• Active Transport; Protein Import
• Biomedicine and Disease
• Channel Proteins
• Drug Development
• Electron Transport, Energy Transduction, Metabolism
• Instrumentation & Methods Development
• Materials & Transport Processes: Supported Membranes
• Membrane-Protein Interactions
• Membrane Protein Structure
• Multidrug Resistance
• Trafficking & Signaling
• Viruses, Membrane Fusion

Membrane Biology Group in the Purdue University Life Sciences (PULSe) Program