THE BIOELECTRICITY LAB - FILIP VAN PETEGEM
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Filip Van Petegem, PI
Filip Van PetegemFilip Van Petegem, PI
  • Professor, University of British Columbia, 2017 - present
  • Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, 2012 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, 2007-2012
  • Postdoctoral research, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), 2002-2007
  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Ghent University, 2002
  • Licensee in Biochemistry, Ghent University, 1998

  • Awards
    • CIHR New Investigator, 2008
    • Michael Smith Career Investigator, 2008
    • Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award, 2013
    • Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences New Investigator Award, 2016
    • Killam Research Fellowship, 2017


​​Our team:
Joseph Lee, Lab Manager
Raika Pancaroglu, Research Associate
Steven Molinarolo, Research Associate
Seby Chen, postdoc
Jai Krishna Mahto, Postdoc
Wassim Elkhatib, Postdoc
Zehua Shangguan, Graduate Student
Marvin Bader, Graduate Student
Leon Ha, MSc Student
Sol Snir Shaool Graduate Student
Rick Hu, Honors Student (BIOC449)
Priesha Thakur, Work-learn student
John Twidale, Work-learn student
Bartok, feline extraordinaire
Keywords:  Ion channel, calcium channel, calcium signaling, Ryanodine Receptor, cardiac arrhythmia, heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation, AFib, Heart Failure, CPVT, Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, LQTS, Long QT syndrome, Malignant Hyperthermia, Central Core Disease, MH, CCD, RyR1, RyR2, calcins, toxin, calmodulin, pharmacology, myopathy, cardiomyopathy, muscle excitation-contraction coupling, muscle contraction, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, cryo-electron microscopy, electrophysiology, planar lipid bilayer electrophysiology, patch clamp, two-electrode voltage clamp, isothermal titration calorimetry, cardiac arrhythmia research, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia research, RyR-1 Foundation, epilepsy research, core myopathies, University of British Columbia, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Life Sciences Institute, LSI, Life Sciences Centre, LSC
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