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Researcher
Chris Ulens
- Disciplines:Neurosciences, Biological and physiological psychology, Cognitive science and intelligent systems, Developmental psychology and ageing
Affiliations
- Laboratory of Structural Neurobiology (Division)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2012 → Today - Laboratory of Structural Neurobiology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → Today - Toxicology and Pharmacology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jan 2004
Projects
21 - 30 of 30
- Identification and characterization of clinically relevant cys-loop receptors.From1 Sep 2013 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- Nanobody-assisted structural study of ELIC, a prokaryote GABA-activated ion channel.From1 Jan 2013 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Crystallographic study of integral TRP channels.From1 Oct 2011 → 14 Sep 2015Funding: FWO fellowships
- Serotonergic plasticity of the acetylcholine binding site in AChBP.From1 Jan 2011 → 31 Dec 2014Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- TRPLe: TRP Research Platform Leuven.From1 Nov 2010 → 31 Oct 2017Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Structure-function relationship of bacterial hyperpolarization-activated pacemaker channels.From1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Structure determination of prokaryote ion channels.From1 Jan 2009 → 31 Dec 2012Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Intergrated macromolecular christallography core-facility.From20 Oct 2008 → 19 Apr 2015Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
- Structure determination of prokaryotic and eukaryotic ion channels.From1 Oct 2008 → 30 Sep 2013Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- NeuroCypres: Neurotransmitter Cys-loop receptors: structure, function and disease.From1 Feb 2008 → 31 Jul 2012Funding: General Activities (Annex IV)
Publications
1 - 10 of 60
- Acetylcholine-Binding Protein Affinity Profiling of Neurotoxins in Snake Venoms with Parallel Toxin Identification(2023)
Authors: Chris Ulens
- An in vitro assay to investigate venom neurotoxin activity on muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation and for the discovery of toxin-inhibitory molecules(2023)
Authors: Mieke Nys, Chris Ulens
- Sterol derivative binding to the orthosteric site causes conformational changes in an invertebrate Cys-loop receptor(2023)
Authors: Casey Gallagher, Chris Ulens
- High-Throughput Venomics(2023)
Authors: Chris Ulens
Pages: 1734 - 1746 - Probing effects of the SARS-CoV-2 E protein on membrane curvature and intracellular calcium(2022)
Authors: Chris Ulens
- The molecular mechanism of snake short-chain α-neurotoxin binding to muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors(2022)
Authors: Mieke Nys, Chris Ulens
- Spicy Science: Structural snapshots of a polymodal nociceptor reveal insights on our sensation to pain, heat, and taste(2022)
Authors: Chris Ulens
- Clinical and molecular characteristics of a novel rare de novo variant in PPP2CA in a patient with a developmental disorder, autism, and epilepsy.(2022)
Authors: Iris Verbinnen, Chris Ulens, Veerle Janssens
- Regulation of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel by a semiconserved cationic lipid-binding site(2021)
Authors: Chris Ulens
- The structural basis for an on-off switch controlling Gβγ-mediated inhibition of TRPM3 channels(2020)
Authors: Mieke Nys, Nikolaos Louros, Rodrigo Gallardo, Valentina Zorzini, Tassos Economou, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz, Chris Ulens
Pages: 29090 - 29100