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Tess Whitwam

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2016

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Affiliations

Scripps Research Institute(Current)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

University of California San Diego

Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United States)

Tess Whitwam is an author at Scripps Research Institute specializing in medicine, natural sciences, and electrophysiology.

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MedicineCytoskeletonIon ChannelsCell PhysiologyNatural SciencesElectrophysiologyMolecular BiologyBiologyGeneticsBiophysics

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2016–2019

8

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Structure of the mechanically activated ion channel Piezo1

Kei Saotome, Swetha E. Murthy, Jennifer M. Kefauver et al. · Nature · 2017 · 614 citations · Full text

Engineering, Bioelectronics, Ion Channels +7

OSCA/TMEM63 are an evolutionarily conserved family of mechanically activated ion channels

Swetha E. Murthy, Adrienne E. Dubin, Tess Whitwam et al. · eLife · 2018 · 354 citations · Full text

Mechanically activated ion channel PIEZO1 is required for lymphatic valve formation

Keiko Nonomura, Viktor Lukacs, Daniel T. Sweet et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 259 citations · Full text

Common PIEZO1 Allele in African Populations Causes RBC Dehydration and Attenuates Plasmodium Infection

Shang Ma, Stuart M. Cahalan, Gregory LaMonte et al. · Cell · 2018 · 255 citations · Full text

Common Piezo1 Allele, African Trypanosomiasis, Parasitic Protozoa +11

Structure of the human volume regulated anion channel

Jennifer M. Kefauver, Kei Saotome, Adrienne E. Dubin et al. · eLife · 2018 · 123 citations · Full text

Human Volume, Homomeric Channel, Molecular Biology +22

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