Brenda Farrell, Ph.D
Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D. Interfacial Engineering, (1994) Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London London, England, U.K.

Postdoctoral
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, and
Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas

 

Research Interests:
Exocytosis and endocytosis of mast cells & biophysical origin of voltage dependent capacitance in outer hair cells

Lectures:
Electochemical Cells
Interfacial Thermodynamics

Phone Number:
713-798-8541 (office)
281-808-6736 (mobile)

E-mail Address: bfarrell@bcm.edu

 

Selected Publications:

Farrell B, Do Shope C, Brownell WE. Voltage-dependent capacitance of human embryonic kidney cells. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2006;73:041930.

Rajagopalan L, Patel N, Maabushi S, Goddard JA, Anjan V, Lin F, Shope C, Farrell B, Lichtarge O, Davidson AL, Brownell WE, Pereira FA. Essential helix interactions in the anion transporter domain of prestin revealed by evolutionary trace analysis. J Neurosci 2006;26:12727-34.

Farrell B, Ugrinov R, Brownell WE. Frequency dependence of admittance and conductance of the outer hair cell. In: Nuttall A, Gillespie P, Ren T, Grosh K, eds. Auditory Mechanisms: Processes and Models. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing; 2006. pp.230-1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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