----------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOINFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM College of Science George Mason University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TBA Sergei Sukharev, Ph.D. Department of Biology Biology-Psychology Building University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 Biography: Education/Training: MS Biology/Biophysics M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Ph.D. Biology/Biophysics M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Research Experience: 2003-present Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland-College Park 1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland-College Park 1991-1997 Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987-1991 Scientist, Laboratory of Membrane Bioelectrochemistry, The A.N.Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Acad. Sci. USSR, Moscow (Russia) 1980-1987 Research Fellow, The A.N.Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Acad. Sci. USSR Moscow, (Russia) Research Interests and Expertise: Primary mechanisms of mechanosensory transduction and volume regulation, biophysics and biochemistry of mechanosensitive ion channels. Functional and structural analysis of MS channel proteins. Biophysics of cell membranes and lipid bilayers. For more details of Dr. Sukharev's biography please download his biosketch at the below addresses: http://binf.gmu.edu/colloq/biosketch_Sukharev.doc