LABORATORY OF ROBERT S. EISENBERG

Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology

Bob Eisenberg is interested in studying ion channels as physical objects, trying to use the tools of physics, chemistry, engineering, and applied mathematics to understand how they work. Ion channels are proteins with a hole down their middle that are the gatekeepers for cells. Ion channels control an enormous range of biological function in health and disease. But ion channels have simple enough structure that they can be analyzed with the usual tools of physical science. With that analysis in hand, Bob and John Tang, with gifted collaborators, are trying to design practical machines that use ion channels.

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PNP online is a web-based software for running Poisson Nernst Planck theory.

A complete list of publications:  Many are available on-line by clicking the link named PDF.

Additional resources, including downloadable files, are available from the following locations:

The interactive version of PNP can be found at http://www.pnponline.org/

The general directory for anonymous ftp is ftp://ftp.rush.edu/pub/Eisenberg   (see the INDEX).

The early versions of PNP are found in ftp://ftp.rush.edu/pub/Eisenberg/PNP and were written by Duan Chen.

Later versions are in ftp://ftp.rush.edu/pub/Eisenberg/Nonner and were written by Wolfgang Nonner using code written by Duan Chen for location dependent diameter, diffusion coefficient and permittivity (dielectric 'constant').

The later versions in more user friendly form are in ftp://ftp.rush.edu/pub/Eisenberg/Hollerbach and were rewritten and annotated and tested by UweHollerbach so they will compile on almost any C compiler (we hope).

http://www2.phys.rush.edu/files/Eisenberg contains a number of papers.

ftp://ftp.rush.edu/pub/Eisenberg/noise contains files for studying single channels in noise, written by Rick Levis.