Frederick Sigworth, PhD
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Biomedical Engineering and of Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryCards
About
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Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Biomedical Engineering and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Biography
Fred Sigworth studied applied physics at Caltech and was a graduate student at Yale, working in the neuroscience laboratory of Charles F. Stevens. He received the PhD in physiology from Yale in 1979 and was a postdoc in the laboratory of Erwin Neher in Göttingen, Germany where he was a co-developer of patch-clamp techniques for single-channel electrophysiology. He returned to Yale as a faculty member at Yale in 1984. His current research is in the structural biology of ion-channel proteins, making use of novel cryo-EM methods. "How do I see the scientific enterprise? An old book puts it this way: one generation commends God's works to another. It is a great privilege to unravel the workings of ion channels, and to pass on the excitement about these molecular machines to students, colleagues and anyone else who will listen!"
Appointments
Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Professor Phased RetirementPrimaryMolecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- Research Associate
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. (1984)
- Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. (1981)
- PhD
- Yale University (1979)
Research
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
News
News
- May 02, 2024
AAAS Elects 3 From Yale School of Medicine
- April 23, 2021
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Five from School of Medicine
- January 09, 2020
Cellular and Molecular Physiology Annual Retreat 2019
- January 05, 2020
Cell Death Channel Found Within ATP Synthase Monomer, Study Finds