Joe Falke
Professor, Biochemistry • Director, Molecular Biophysics Program
Biochemistry
falke@colorado.edu
303-817-9814


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


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 Biochemistry

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

  • 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
  • 1996-2015 Member, Board of Directors, Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction, Inc.
  • 1998-2015 Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, Annual Bacterial ReceptorFest Conference
  • 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 Symposium Chair, FASEB Meeting on Membrane Biophysics, Vermont
  • 2003 Conference Co-Chair, Keystone Meeting on Membrane Proteins, Taos
  • 2003 George A. Feigen Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University
  • 2006 Conference Co-Chair, Annual Meeting of Soc. of Gen. Physiologists
  • 2007-2008 President, Biophysical Society
  • 2010  Symposium Chair, New Horizons in Calcium Signaling, Bejing Univ. PRC
  • 2010  Symposium Chair, Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, San Francisco
  • 2012 Conference Chair, Receptor Fest, Univ Colorado Boulder
  • 2013-Present Member, NIH T32 Study Section TWD-B
  • 2014-Present Member, Editorial Board - Biophysical Journal
  • 2015 Inducted as Fellow of the Biophysical Society, Class of 2015
  • 2018 College Scholar Award, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • 2018 Invited Reviewer for Excellence Strategy, German Research Foundation
  • 2019 Invited Speaker, Aspen Physics Center Conference on Single Molecule Biology
  • 2020 Invited Symposium Chair and Speaker, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Symposium on Ca2+ Signaling in Motility, San Diego
  • 2020 NIH Grant Reviewer for 2 Panels: ZRG1 CG-Q MIRA (July) and ZRG1 BST-J (November)
  • 2021 NIH Grant Reviewer for 2 Panels: ZGM1 RCB-4 (CB, July) and ZRG1 BST-J (55R, November)
  • 2022 Invited Speaker, Santa Fe Conference on Membranes and Membrane Proteins:  Challenges for Theory and Experiment
  • 2023 Invited Speaker, Aspen Physics Center Conference on Single Molecule Biology
  • Since 1995:  NIH Grant Reviewer for 25+ Study Section Meetings: Regular Member for BBM 2003-2007 and TWD-B 2014-2020; Ad Hoc for BBCB, Phys Biochem, BBM, MIRA and Other Special Emphasis Panels
  • Since 1995:  Over 100 Invited Seminars and Conference Presentations including: California Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University, Univ. Chicago, Cornell Univ., Univ. Pennsylvania, Univ. Illinois, UC Irvine, Univ. Utah, National Institutes of Health, Cambridge Univ., Oxford Univ., Babraham Inst., Univ. Stockholm, Carlesburg Laboratory Copenhagen, Univ. Milan, Univ. Florence, Univ. Perugia, Univ. Padova, Univ. Siena, Academia Sinica Taiwan, Univ. Nagoya, Univ. Osaka, Relay Therapeutics, Aspen Single Molecule Biology Conference, Biophysical Society, Gordon Conferences, Protein Society, FASEB Conferences, American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiologists, Telluride - Santa Fe Membrane Meetings
  • Since 1995:  Member of 3 Journal Editorial Boards: Protein Society, J Gen Physiol, Biophys J
  • Publications:  125+ publications in peer-reviewed journals
  • Citations:  Google Scholar citations h-index = 65

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