Lukas K. Buehler

I am a professor of biology at Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. I started teaching as visiting lecturer in Biology at the University of California, San Diego teaching structural and metabolic biochemistry, biophysics of cell membranes and membrane proteins, membrane transport and signaling, and theoretical and practical aspects of molecular interaction in rational drug design. I was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the trade publication Pharmaceutical Discovery and worked as a columnist for this journal writing on various aspect on drug discovery by design.

My research background is in membrane protein structure and function, having studied the channel activity of bacterial porins, mouse gap junction proteins and synthetic peptides. I have also worked in rational drug design both experimental with ion channel screening in frog oocytes and DNA micro-array analysis applied to viral genotyping, immune system gene expression in response to viral infections and in cancer biology.