Address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0215 Tel: 303-492-3503 Fax: 303-492-5894 Email: falke@colorado.edu

Education:

Earlham College		Richmond, IN		BA		Chemistry		1978
California Institute of Technology		Pasadena, CA		PhD		Chemistry		1984
University of California, Berkeley		Berkeley, CA		PostD		Biochemistry		1984-1987

Professional Experience:
Harvard University, Department of Biological Chemistry:

1977

Research Assistant (Professor David Bing)

California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry:

	1979 - 1984		Doctoral Thesis Research (Professor Sunney Chan)
	1982 - 1984		Staff Spectroscopist, Caltech Chemical NMR Facility

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Biochemistry:

	1985 - 1987		NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Professor Daniel Koshland, Jr.)
	1986 - 1987		Manager and Spectroscopist,UCB Biochemical Fluorescence Facility

University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry:

	1987 - 1994		Assistant Professor
	1994 -		Associate Professor
	1999-		Full Professor
	1999 -		Director, Interdepartmental Molecular Biophysics Program

Selected Honors, Awards, and Service:

	1974 - 1978		National Merit Scholar
	1978		Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
	1979 - 1982		National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow
	1984		McKoy Award for Outstanding Caltech Ph.D. Thesis in Chemistry
	1985 - 1987		National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow
	1996 -		Member, Board of Directors, BLAST, Inc.
	1997 - 2003		Editorial Advisory Board, Protein Science
	1997 -		Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of General Physiology
	1997 -		Ad Hoc Member, BBCB and Physical Biochemistry NIH Study Sections
	1997		Chair, International Conference on Prokaryotic Signal Transduction, Cuernavaca
	1998 - 2001		Member, Advisory Council of the Biophysical Society
	1999		Chair, Calcium Signaling Symposium, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
	1999		Session Chair, International Symposium on Calcium Binding, Kisarazu
	1999		Session Chair, International Conference on Phospholipase A2, Berlin
	2000 - 2002		Executive Board of the Biophysical Society
	2001		Chair, Receptor Symposium, Keystone Conference on Membrane Proteins
	2001		Conference Chair, 2001 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Boston
	2002		Chair, Receptor Symposium, FASEB Meeting on Membrane Biophysics, Vermont
	2003		Conference Chair, Keystone Meeting on Membrane Proteins, Taos
	2003		George A. Feigen Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University
	2003 - 2007		Member, NIH Study Sections: Biophysical Chemistry; Biochemistry & Biophysics of Membranes
	2006		Conference Co-Chair, Annual Meeting of Soc. of Gen. Physiologists - Chemotaxis, Invasion and Phagocytosis: from Bacteria to Humans
	2006 - 2007		President-Elect, Biophysical Society
	2007 - 2008		President, Biophysical Society
	2008 - 2009		Past President Biophysical Society
	2009		Seminar at Babraham Institute, Cambridge Univ., UK
	2009		Seminar at Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Univ., UK
	2010		Speaker, Gordon Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms, Ventura
	2010		Symposium Chair, Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, San Francisco - Calcium Signaling at the Leading Edge
	2010		Seminar at Cell Biophysics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK - A New Molecular Cancer Mechanism
	2010		Speaker, Conference on New Horizons in Calcium Signaling, Univ. Bejing, PRC
	Since 1987		Over 150 Invited Seminars and Conference Presentations including California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Univ. Chicago, Univ. Pennsylvania, Univ. Illinois, Georgia Inst. Technology, Univ. Texas, Univ. Utah, National Institutes of Health, Univ. Stockholm, Carlesburg Laboratory Copenhagen, Univ. Milan, Univ. Florence, Univ. Perugia, Univ. Padova, Univ. Siena, Academia Sinica Taiwan, Univ. Nagoya, Univ. Osaka, Biophysical Society, Gordon Conferences, Protein Society, American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiologists

Professional Organizations:

	Biophysical Society
	American Chemical Society
	Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
	Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
	Protein Society