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Dr. Gouaux is also Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he studied with William Lipscomb and determined structures of aspartate transcarbamylase in complexes with substrates, inhibitors, and allosteric effectors. As a postdoctoral fellow in Har Gobind Khorana's laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Gouaux carried out investigations of the membrane proteins bacteriorhodopsin and rhodopsin. Prior to his move to the Vollum Institute, he was Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gouaux was recently named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Eric Gouaux studies the molecular mechanisms of communication between nerve cells by studying the receptors and transporters that detect and remove neurotransmitters from synapses, the sites of nerve cell communication.
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