Research Description

Real-time characterization of the cardiac fight-or-flight response using caged-serine mutagenesis

Awards

• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship (NIH F30HL182065), 2025-2029
• Pharmacological Sciences T32 Student Representative, 2025
• Predoctoral Training Grant in the Pharmacological Sciences (T32 GM144636), 2025
• Institutional Fellowship on the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (NIH T32 GM144636), 2024-2025

Publications

• Clark, Colin J.*, Christian Anderson*, Alex Dou*, Jason Dierdorff, Jason D. Galpin, Lionel Gissot, Samantha Thompson et al. "Non-canonical Sodium Channel Isoforms Underlie Chamber Specific Cardiac Excitability." bioRxiv (2025): 2025-08. *Co-first authors.
• Dou, Alex, Po Wei Kang, Panpan Hou, Mark A. Zaydman, Jie Zheng, Timothy Jegla, and Jianmin Cui. "Principles of sensor-effector organization in six-transmembrane ion channels." In revision for JGP (2025).