Izzy Smith

Project: Fusion: Trying to understand how proteins catalyze membrane fusion during neuronal exocytosis.
Email: esmith7@wisc.edu
Birthdate: July 13th
Nickname: Izzy
Grew up in: Oakland, Maine
Parents live in: Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Favorite laser: 633nm HeNe
Favorite foods:

tofu/chicken curries
soups
veggie stir fry
Mint/Raspberry Milanos
anything my mom makes

What I like about Madison:

the capital square farmers market
Babcock Hall ice cream
weather during the summer
bike/jogging paths and lakes
friendly Midwesterners
the (lack of) traffic
UW-Madison

Education: Pomona College (Claremont, CA) - BA in Physics
Other training: I trained to be a crystallographer for a year in Fred Dyda and Alison B. Hickman's lab at the NIH's NIDDK via a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) before coming to UW for grad school.
Publications:

Wang T, Smith EA, Chapman ER, Weisshaar JC. (2009). Lipid Mixing and Content Release in Single-Vesicle, SNARE-Driven Fusion Assay with 1-5 ms Resolution. Biophys. J. 96: 4122-4131. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.050