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David T. Lodowski, PhD

Director
Biomedical Sciences Training Program
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of Nutrition
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
School of Medicine

David T. Lodowski graduated in 1998 from Tulane University with a BS in cellular and molecular biology. This was followed by graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where, under supervision of Dr. John Tesmer, he obtained his PhD (Structural Basis for the Regulation of GRK2 by Gβγ) in 2005. He followed this work with a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ examining the structural changes in bovine rhodopsin that accompany photoactivation and GPCR activation from 2005 to 2011. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ where his laboratory focuses on the interactions of GPCRs with their downstream partners employing a combination of X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, and structural mass spectrometry techniques.

Teaching Information

Courses Taught

SYBB 501. Systems Biology & Bioinformatics Journal Club
CBIO 455. Molecular Biology I

Research Information

Research Projects

  • Dynamics of GPCR signaling
  • Biophysics of Biosensors for markers of hypoxia and fatigue
  • Aquaporins as membrane gas channels

Recent Funding

Biosis AFRL -- associate project lead, 7/15/20-present

Awards and Honors

Mt. Sinai Scholar
2012

Publications

Recent Publications

  1. Du Y, Duc NM, Rasmussen SGF, Hilger D, Kubiak X, Wang L, Bohon J, Kim HR, Wegrecki M, Asuru A, Jeong KM, Lee J, Chance MR, Lodowski DT, Kobilka BK, Chung KY. Assembly of a GPCR-G Protein Complex. Cell. 2019 May 16;177(5):1232-1242.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.022. Epub 2019 May 9. PMID: 31080064; PMCID: PMC6763313.
  2. Jain R, Abel D, Rakitin M, Sullivan M, Lodowski DT, Chance MR, Farquhar ER. New high-throughput endstation to accelerate the experimental optimization pipeline for synchrotron X-ray footprinting. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2021 Sep 1;28(Pt 5):1321-1332. doi: 10.1107/S1600577521005026. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PMID: 34475281; PMCID: PMC8415340.
  3. Moss FJ, Mahinthichaichan P, Lodowski DT, Kowatz T, Tajkhorshid E, Engel A, Boron WF, Vahedi-Faridi A. Aquaporin-7: A Dynamic Aquaglyceroporin With Greater Water and Glycerol Permeability Than Its Bacterial Homolog GlpF. Front Physiol. 2020 Jun 30;11:728. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00728. PMID: 32695023; PMCID: PMC7339978.
  4. Hughes TET, Lodowski DT, Huynh KW, Yazici A, Del Rosario J, Kapoor A, Basak S, Samanta A, Han X, Chakrapani S, Zhou ZH, Filizola M, Rohacs T, Han S, Moiseenkova-Bell VY. Structural basis of TRPV5 channel inhibition by econazole revealed by cryo-EM. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2018 Jan;25(1):53-60. doi: 10.1038/s41594-017-0009-1. Epub 2018 Jan 1. PMID: 29323279; PMCID: PMC5951624.
  5. Hughes TET, Lodowski DT, Huynh KW, Yazici A, Del Rosario J, Kapoor A, Basak S, Samanta A, Han X, Chakrapani S, Zhou ZH, Filizola M, Rohacs T, Han S, Moiseenkova-Bell VY. Structural basis of TRPV5 channel inhibition by econazole revealed by cryo-EM. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2018 Jan;25(1):53-60. doi: 10.1038/s41594-017-0009-1. Epub 2018 Jan 1. PMID: 29323279; PMCID: PMC5951624.
  6. Blankenship E, Vahedi-Faridi A, Lodowski DT. The High-Resolution Structure of Activated Opsin Reveals a Conserved Solvent Network in the Transmembrane Region Essential for Activation. Structure. 2015 Dec 1;23(12):2358-2364. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2015.09.015. Epub 2015 Oct 29. PMID: 26526852; PMCID: PMC4670590.
  7. Blankenship E, Vukoti K, Miyagi M, Lodowski DT. Conformational flexibility in the catalytic triad revealed by the high-resolution crystal structure of Streptomyces erythraeus trypsin in an unliganded state. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2014 Mar;70(Pt 3):833-40. doi: 10.1107/S1399004713033658. Epub 2014 Feb 22. PMID: 24598752; PMCID: PMC3949523.
  8. Ernst OP, Lodowski DT, Elstner M, Hegemann P, Brown LS, Kandori H. Microbial and animal rhodopsins: structures, functions, and molecular mechanisms. Chem Rev. 2014 Jan 8;114(1):126-63. doi: 10.1021/cr4003769. Epub 2013 Dec 23. PMID: 24364740; PMCID: PMC3979449.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin
2005
Bachelor of Science
Molecular Biology
Tulane University
1999
Post Doctoral Training
Structural Biology of Vision
Palczewski Laboratory, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½
2011

Residencies, Internships and Fellowships

Additional Information

Protein Structures Determined: