Bahar Lab

Dr. Ivet Bahar
John K. Vries Chair in Computational Biology
Department of Computational Biology
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
3064 Biomedical Science Tower 3
3501 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Voice:	412 648 3332
Fax:	412 648 3163
email:
	http://www.ccbb.pitt.edu

Research Interests:
Molecular biophysics: theory and simulations of structure and dynamics; supramolecular machinery; allosteric effects and mechanisms of action; sequence-structure-dynamics-function relations; statistical mechanics of macromolecules; multiscale network models for equilibrium systems; modeling enzyme-substrate, protein-DNA and protein-drug interactions and biomolecular complexes and assemblies; drug screening and docking

Ahmet Bakan's recent PNAS paper on drug binding mechanisms vs intrinsic changes in shape (PDF)

In vivo chemical screen in zebrafish reveals a novel modulator of FGF signaling. (PDF)
Commentaries: A Glowing Report and Small-molecule inhibitors: Another one bites the Dusp

Publications 2009

"Allosteric Transitions of Supramolecular Systems Explored by Network Models: Application to Chaperonin GroEL" Zheng Yang , Peter Májek, Ivet Bahar (2009) PLoS Comput Biol 5: e1000360.

"Molecular simulations elucidate the substrate translocation pathway in a glutamate transporter." Gu Y, Shrivastava IH, Amara SG, Bahar I. (2009) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:2589-94

"Time-resolved mechanism of extracellular gate opening and substrate binding in glutamate transporter" Shrivastava IH, Jiang J, Amara SG and Bahar I (2008) J Biol. Chem. 2008; 283:28680-28690. PMID: 18678877