Marie Kelly-Worden has been a member of the department since 2004. She specializes in synaptic transmissions and auto immune responses.

• PhD - Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 1997
• BS - Biology, Wayne State University, 1992
• AA & AS - Arts and Science, Henry Ford CC, 1989

• M. L. Kelly-Worden and S. Ghassemifar, “Using Liposomes to Observe the Interactions of Autoimmune Antibodies, Chapter 7,” in Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, in press), 225-239.
• D. A. Snyder, M. L. Kelly, and D. J. Woodbury, “SNARE complex regulation by phosphorylation,” Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics (2006), 45: 1, 111-124.
• M. L. Kelly, R. Abu-Hamdah, A. Jeremic, S. -J Cho, A. E. Ilie, and B. P. Jena, “Patch clamped single pancreatic zymogen granules; direct measurements of ion channel activities at the granule membrane,” Pancreatology (2005), 5: 4-5, 443-449.
• M. L. Kelly, W. -J. Cho, A. Jeremic, R. Abu-Hamdah, and B. P. Jena, “Vesicle swelling regulates content expulsion during secretion,” Cell Biology International (2004), 28: 10, 709-716.
• A. Jeremic, M. L. Kelly, J. A. Cho, S. -J Cho, H. Hörber, and B. P. Jena, “Calcium drives fusion of SNARE-apposed bilayers. Cell Biology International,” Cell Biology International (2004), 28: 1, 7-17.
• R. Abu-Hamdah, W. -J. Cho, S. -J Cho, A. Jeremic, M. L. Kelly, A. E. Ilie, and B. P. Jena, “Regulation of the water channel aquaporin-1: isolation and reconstitution of the regulatory complex,” Cell Biology International (2004), 28: 1, 19-31.
• M. L. Kelly-Worden and D. J. Woodbury, “Advantages and disadvantages of patch clamping versus using BLM, Chapter 25,” in Planar Lipid Bilayers (BLMs) and Their Applications (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2003), 692-722.
• M. L. Kelly, J. A. Cook, P. Brown-Augsburger, B. A. Heinz, M. C. Smith, and L. H. Pinto, “Demonstrating the Intrinsic Ion Channel Activity of Virally-Encoded Proteins,” FEBS Letters (2003), 552: 1, 61-67.
• A. Jeremic, M. L. Kelly, S. -J Cho, M. Stromer, and B. P. Jena, “Reconstituted fusion pore,” Biophysical Journal (2003), 85, 2035-2043.
• S. -J Cho, M. L. Kelly, K. T. Rognlien, J. A. Cho, H. Hörber, and B. P. Jena, “SNAREs in opposing bilayers interact in a circular array to form conducting pores,” Biophysical Journal (2002), 83, 2522-2527.

• Tourette Syndrome Association
• Biophysical Society
• Gold Key International Honour Society
• Lupus Foundation of America
• Honorary member, Eta Sigma Gamma
• Sigma Xi
• Indiana Academy of Science
• American Society for Cell Biology
• Medical Research Advisor, Dysautonomia Information Network
• Society for Neuroscience