Lee Eckhardt
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Functional genomics approach to understand cardiac-arrhythmia
Email: lle@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-1172
Address:
8431 Wi Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
LAB WEBSITE:
https://www.medicine.wisc.edu/cardiovascular-medicine/eckhardt-research
FOCUS GROUPS:
Cellular & Molecular Metabolism; Membrane Biology and Protein Trafficking; Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes; Physiology
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:
The Eckhardt laboratory studies functional genomics, focusing on the cellular mechanisms of inherited and acquired arrhythmia syndromes. The team is particularly interested in understanding
the cellular dynamics, channel regulation and cellular microdomains for potassium inward rectifier channel family Kir2.x and how this relates to arrhythmic disease. The Eckhardt lab also investigates
methodology for high-throughput genetic variant characterization, particularly for genes encoding cardiac potassium channels.
ALSO A TRAINER IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (MCP)