Brian Edmonds
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
907-474-6527
● Biochemistry ● Biophysics
Affiliations
● INBRE
(IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence)
● University of Alaska Fairbanks
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Institute of Arctic Biology
Education
●B.S. 1981 Biological Sciences
Stanford University
● Ph.D. 1990 Physiology/Biophysics
● Post Doctoral 1996 Ion Channel Biophysics
University College, London England
● Post Doctoral 1999 Synaptic Physiology
University of Oregon
● Post Doctoral2001 Synaptic Physiology
University of California, Los Angeles
● Post Doctoral 2004 X-Ray Crystallography
University of California, Irvine
Current Research Projects
● Mechanisms of Activation and Modulation of Human Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications (in chronological order)
1. Edmonds, B. and Colquhoun, D. (1992) Rapid decay of averaged single-channel NMDA receptor activations recorded at low agonist concentration. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 250, 279 [PMID: 1283640]
2. Silver, R.A., Colquhoun, D., Cull-Candy, S.G. and Edmonds, B. (1996) Deactivation and desensitization of non-NMDA receptors in patches and the time course of EPSCs in rat cerebellar granule cells. J.Physiol. (Lond) 493, 167 [PMID: 8735702]
3. Colquhoun, D., Hawkes, A.G., Merlushkin, A. and Edmonds, B. (1997) Properties of single ion channel currents elicited by a pulse of agonist concentration or voltage. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 355, 1743
4. Kim, J-S., Pandya, A., Weltzin, M., Edmonds, B.W., Schulte, M.K. and Glennon, R.A. (2007) Synthesis of desformylflustrabromine and its evaluation as an a 4 b 2 and a 7 nACh receptor modulator. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 17, 4855 [PMID: 17604168]
