Our Team
Roderic G Eckenhoff, MD
Austin Lamont Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, Perelman School of Medicine
reckenho@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215.746.8699
Roderic's Profile Page
Rod Eckenhoff's publications
Graduate Group Affiliations
Maryellen F Eckenhoff, PhD
Research Associate
maryellen.eckenhoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215.573.8208
Maryellen's Faculty Profile Page
Maryellen's Publications
Weiming Bu, PhD
Research Specialist
weiming.bu@uphs.upenn.edu
Weiming is a structural biologist, using protein expression and crystallography in the lab. He is also the radiation officer for the Eckenhoff lab. See Weiming Bu's publications.
Collaborators
Victoria M. Bedell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Victoria.Bedell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Vicki came to PENN for her anesthesia residency as a Dripps Fellow. Vicki began her research on anesthetic mechanisms in zebrafish during her residency and continued during her postdoctoral fellowship on the Department's NIH T32 Training Grant and received a FAER Mentored Research Grant. Vicki is currently an assistant professor and continues collaborations with our lab.
Victoria Bedell’s Publications
Thomas Joseph, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
thomas.joseph@uphs.upenn.edu
UPenn Faculty Profile Page
Tom came to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow on the department's NIH T32 training grant, after completing his anesthesia residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Tom's research focus is on anesthetic mechanisms using molecular dynamic simulations, for which he received a FAER Mentored Research Grant and recently an NIH K08 grant. Tom is an assistant professor and is continuing his collaborations with our lab.
Thomas Joseph's publications and faculty webpage.
E. Railey White, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
E.Railey.White@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Railey came to PENN for her anesthesia residency and was selected to be a Dripps Fellow. Railey began using her expertise in chemical biology to understand the mechanisms of anesthetic action during her residency and while a postdoctoral fellow on the department’s NIH T32 Training grant. She was awarded both a FAER Research Fellowship Grant and a FAER Mentored Research Grant . Railey is currently an assistant professor and is continuing collaborations with our lab.
E. Railey White’s publications
Previous graduate students
Adam Hines, PhD
Former Fulbright Future Scholar, Graduate Student
Adam was a Fullbright Future Scholar in our lab studying how anesthetics inhibit the syntaxin/SNAP-25 presynaptic mechanisms. He his PhD in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
See Adam's publications
Kellie A. Woll, PhD
Former Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow
Kellie, as a pharmacology graduate student, completed her PhD thesis in our lab and remained briefly in the lab as a postdoctoral fellow before accepting a postdoctoral fellowship with Filip Van Petegen at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
See Kellie Woll's publications.
Brian P. Weiser, PhD
Former Graduate Student
Brian was a Pharmacology graduate student and completed his thesis work in our lab. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Philip A Cole in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and recently accepted a position as an assistant professor at Rowan University.
See Brian Weiser's publications.
Lab Photos
Top row: Tom Joseph, Maryellen Eckenhoff, Roderic Eckenhoff
Bottom row: Vicki Bedell, Railey White, Weiming Bu

Tom Joseph, David Leace, Weiming Bu, Maryellen Eckenhoff, Railey White, Roderic Eckenhoff, Vicki Bedell, Sruthi Murlidaran

Weiming Bu, Tom Joseph, Railey White, Brandon Anderson, Vicki Bedell, Rod Eckenhoff, Maryellen Eckenhoff

Back Row: Tom Joseph, Nikaela Bryan, Danny Prieto-Riascos, Kellie Woll, Rod Eckenhof
Front Row: Daniel Xu, Nick Kondoleon, Railey White, Maryellen Eckenhoff, Vicki Bidell

Back Row: Maryellen Eckenhoff, Lindsay Roth, Wesley Peng, Tim DeYoung, Kellie Woll, Rod Eckenhoff
Front Row: Emmanuel Suarez, Daniel Xu, Jack Jacobs, Weiming Bu, John Li

Back row: Rod Eckenhoff, Kellie Woll, Nathan Weinbren
Front row: Gourab Sarker, Maryellen Eckenhoff, Weiming Bu, Brian Weiser

John Li, Julie Drobish, Amanda Cornfeld, Kellie Woll, Nathan Weinbren, Maryellen Eckenhoff, Brian Weiser, Weiming Bu, Zoe Gan, Rod Eckenhoff

Back Row: Rod Eckenhoff, Wesley Ru, Julie Drobish, Weiming Bu, Brian Weiser
Front row: Maryellen Eckenhoff, Zoe Gan, Junxia Tang