Research

NMR Data Acquisition and Processing

NMR Data Acquisition and Processing

  • Rapid multidimensional NMR using non-uniform sampling
  • Non-Fourier spectral analysis, especially maximum entropy reconstruction

Rowland NMR Toolkit Collaborators

  • Alan Stern (Rowland Institute at Harvard)
  • Gerhard Wagner (Harvard Medical School)
  • Mehdi Mobli (University of Queensland)
  • Mark Maciejewski (UConn Health)
  • Michael Gryk (UConn Health)
  • Adam Schuyler (UConn Health)
  • Jay Vyas (UConn Health)
  • Jonathan Helmus (UConn Health)
  • Matthew Fenwick (UConn Health)

Protein Structure Refinement

Protein Structure Refinement

  • Coarse-grained modeling
  • MoSART: Molecular Structure Analysis and Refinement Tool

Collaborator:

  • Alan Stern (Rowland Institute at Harvard)

Prolactin: Structure, Dynamics, Stability, and Function

  • Promotes lactation during pregnancy; highly angiogenic, mytogenic for T cells
  • Implicated in some breast cancers
  • NMR relaxation studies of allosteric binding

Collaborators:

  • Janus Vang (UConn Health)
  • Birthe Kragelund (University of Copenhagen)
  • Dmitry M. Korzhnev (UConn Health)

PfPMT: Structure, Dynamics, Stability, and Function

PfPMT: Structure, Dynamics, Stability, and Function

  • Essential methyltransferase from Plasmodium palcifarum, the causative agent of malaria
  • Identify inhibitors

Collaborators:

  • Choukri Ben Mamoun (Yale Medical School)
  • Iulian Rujan (UConn Health)
  • Irina Bezsonova (UConn Health)

Osmometry for Probing Water-Biomolecule Interactions

Osmometry for Probing Water-Biomolecule Interactions

  • 2nd virial coefficients, hydrophobic effect, preferential interactions
  • Design and construction of a high precision, high dynamic range instrument

Collaborators:

  • Alan Stern (Rowland Institute at Harvard)
  • Winfred Hill (Rowland Institute at Harvard)