Email

pedersen@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Molec. Physiology/Pedersen
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University School Of Medicine

01/1999 - St. Louis, Missouri United States

PhD from University Of Virginia

08/1984 - Charlottesville, Virginia United States

B.S. from University Of Maryland At College Park

01/1979 - College Park, MD United States

Professional Interests

• Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Cardiovascular Sciences
• Human Disease

Professional Statement

Allosteric mechanisms of ligand-gated ion channels; functional aspects of gating, ion selectivity, and ligand binding are determined with biophysical methods.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Black DJ, Halling DB, Mandich DV, Pedersen SE, Altschuld RA, Hamilton SL "Calmodulin interactions with IQ peptides from voltage-dependent calcium channels.." Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol.. 2005 Mar;288(3):C669-76. Pubmed PMID: 15496482
• Meltzer RH, Vila-Carriles W, Ebalunode JO, Briggs JM, Pedersen SE "Computed pore potentials of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.." Biophys. J.. 2006 Aug 15;91(4):1325-35. Pubmed PMID: 16751248
• Tang W, Halling DB, Black DJ, Pate P, Zhang JZ, Pedersen S, Altschuld RA, Hamilton SL "Apocalmodulin and Ca2+ calmodulin-binding sites on the CaV1.2 channel.." Biophys. J.. 2003 Sep;85(3):1538-47. Pubmed PMID: 12944271
• Papineni RV, Sanchez JU, Baksi K, Willcockson IU, Pedersen SE "Site-specific charge interactions of alpha-conotoxin MI with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.." J. Biol. Chem.. 2001 Jun 29;276(26):23589-98. Pubmed PMID: 11323431