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Current Lab Members |
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Dr. Tim Lezon, Assistant Professor | |
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Email: |
lezon@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-5743 |
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Office: |
BST3 3084 |
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Research Page: |
Beyond Structure: The Forces at Play in Macromolecular Dynamics |
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Education:
PhD in Physics, Penn State U, USA
Research Interests:
Application of coarse-grained models to explore protein structure and dynamics; enhancement of elastic network models to account for non-uniform interactions and solvent effects. |
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Dr. Indira Shrivastava, Res Assist Professor | |
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Email: |
ihs2@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383 5809 |
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Office/Website: |
Website BST3 3089 |
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Education:
PhD in Computational and Quantum Chemistry, U of Pune, India
Research Interests:
Combining multi-scale computational models, such as MD simulations and ENMs, with focus on the dynamics of membrane proteins, including Ion channels, Glutamate transporters, and more recently, Glutamate receptors. I am also interested in studying the dynamics of envelope glycoproteins. |
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Dr. Ahmet Bakan, Res Associate | |
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Email: |
ahb12@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648 8679 |
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Office/Website: |
Website BST3 3084 |
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Education:
PhD in Computational Biology, CMU/Pitt
Research Interests:
Computer-aided drug discovery, development of ProDy for protein (families) dynamics based on PCA of experimental structural datasets and ENM calculations. |
Dr. Mary H. Cheng,
Res Associate | |
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Email: |
hoc2@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648-9614 |
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Office/Website: |
Website BST3 3071 |
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Education:
PhD in Chemical Engineering &
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Research Interests:
Protein modeling and medicinal chemistry, focusing on molecular mechanisms of drug modulation of protein receptor channels, homology modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of biological systems, ion transport through membrane proteins, and protein-lipid interactions. |
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Dr. Ignacio General, Research Associate | |
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Email: |
ijgeneral@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-5744 |
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Office: |
BST3 3085 |
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Education:
PhD in Physics, North Carolina State University
Research Interests:
Computational study of (bio)molecular structure and stability, via coarse grain models and molecular dynamics; free energy and entropy methods; non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. |
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Dr. Filippo Pullara, Research Associate | |
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Email: |
fip1@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648 8771 |
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Office: |
BST3 3090 |
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Education:
PhD in Physics, University of Palermo, Italy
Research Interests:
Structural-dynamic-functional aspects of neurotransmitter Na+ coupled transporters involved in neurotransmission regulation. Spatio-temporal model of dopamine transporter function and regulation in neurons: from molecular to cellular level. |
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Dr. Elia Zomot, Research Associate | |
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Email: |
eliaz.1980@gmail.com | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648 7785 |
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Office: |
BST3 3089 |
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Education:
PhD in Biology, Hebrew U, Israel
Research Interests:
Sodium-coupled neurotransmitter symporters (NNSs); chloride channeling by transporters; potential drugs that target neurotransmitter transporters; co-evolution of amino acids in glutamate transporter and NNS families. |
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Dr. Mert Gur, Postdoctoral Fellow | |
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Email: |
gurmert@gmail.com | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-5804 |
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Office: |
BST3 3088 |
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Education:
PhD in Computational Science & Engineering, Koc U, Turkey
Research Interests:
Investigation of membrane protein dynamics using an interactive combination of coarse-grained models and molecular dynamics. |
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Dr. Kristina Paris, Postdoctoral Associate | |
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Email: |
kparis@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-7435 |
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Office: |
BST3 3085 |
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Research Page: |
Flexibility and Stability of the c-Myc-Max Heterodimer: Implications for Inhibitor Design |
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Education:
PhD in Chemistry, Rutgers U, USA
Research Interests:
Computer-aided drug discovery; receptor reorganization in protein/ligand and protein/protein interactions. |
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Anindita Dutta, PhD Student in CMU/Pitt Comp Biol | |
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Email: |
and77@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-8763 |
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Office: |
BST3 3076.7 |
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Research Page: |
Website |
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Education:
B. Eng. Computer Science, MS in Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
Research Interests:
Analyzing conformational dynamics of proteins using Elastic Network Model and also applying information theoretic approaches to study signal propagation properties. |
Murat Can Cobanoglu,
PhD Student in CMU/Pitt Comp Biol | |
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Email: |
muc3@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648-7323 |
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Office/Website: |
Website BST3 3076.21 |
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Education:
MS in Computer Science &
Engineering, Sabanci U, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Interests:
Polypharmacology methods and models. Drug-target interaction
analysis. |
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Chang Liu, PhD Student, Integrative Mol Biol | |
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Email: |
chl170@pitt.edu | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648-7323 |
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Office: |
BST3 3076.24 |
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Education:
BS in Biological Science, Shandong University, China
Research Interests:
Computational aided drug discovery. |
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Feizhuo Kaitlyn Hu, Res Scholar, Tsinghua University | |
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Email: |
fzhudoudou@gmail.com | |
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Phone: |
(412) 648-7323 |
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Office: |
BST3 3076.23 |
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Education:
BS in Pharmacy, Tsinghua University, China
Research Interests:
Computer-aided discovery of druggable allosteric sites. |
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Wenzhi Mao, Res Scholar, Tsinghua University | |
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Email: |
mao.doudoudou@gmail.com | |
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Phone: |
(412) 383-7257 |
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Office: |
BST3 3076.3 |
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Education:
BS in Pharmacy, Tsinghua University, China
Research Interests:
Development and integration of software tools for modeling protein-drug interactions. |
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