Erdem Karatekin, PhD
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Biography
After obtaining his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville, KY (where he studied thanks to a swimming scholarship) Dr. Karatekin went on to study soft matter physics and chemistry at Columbia University with N. J. Turro and B. O'Shaughnessy where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999. He then gradually moved toward studying dynamics of lipid membranes, first during his post-doctoral stay at the Curie Institute (with F. Brochard-Wyart, 2000-2002), and later as research faculty at the Laboratoire de Dynamique Membranaire (CNRS FRE 3146), both in Paris, France.
Thanks to a long-term leave from the CNRS, he was a visiting research scientist in the laboratory of Dr. J. E. Rothman in Cell Biology at Yale during 2008-2011. He joined the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology as a faculty in 2012.
Appointments
Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Associate Professor TenurePrimaryMolecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Associate Professor TenureSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Neuroscience Track
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Education & Training
- Investigator
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2011)
- Visiting Research Scientist
- Yale University, School of Medicine (2011)
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Curie Institute (2003)
- PhD
- Columbia University, Chemistry (1999)
- MSc
- Columbia University (1996)
- BS
- University of Louisville, Chem. Eng. (1994)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- July 15, 2021Source: YaleNews
Cells create own 'detergent' to clean up infections
- January 09, 2020
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Annual Retreat 2019
- December 06, 2018
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Annual Retreat 2018
- October 02, 2017
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Annual Retreat 2017