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Fred Sigworth studied applied physics at Caltech and worked as a graduate student at Yale in the neuroscience laboratory of Charles F. Stevens. He received his PhD in physiology from Yale in 1979 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Sigworth joined the Yale faculty in 1984. His current research focuses on structural biology of ion-channel proteins, utilizing novel cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) methods. His work explores the structure and function of ion channels and membrane proteins, which selectively control the passage of ions through cell membranes, and are crucial for physiological processes such as synaptic transmission and cardiac function.
Yale School of Medicine • New Haven, CT
Research in structural biology and ion-channel proteins.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.