Prof. Joseph P. Albanesi is a Professor at the School Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University in 1980. As a result of his postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD), he became interested in the mechanism of secretory vesicle biogenesis and trafficking. His research interests include guanylyl cyclase B in cell motility and differentiation, phosphoinositides in regulated exocytosis, and the role of dynamin in membrane vesiculation.