Advisor
Scott Menor
Ph.D. Physics (May, 2007)
Ph.D. Physics (May, 2007)
| Home Department | Physics |
| Areas of Study | Protein Dynamics |
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Background My background is unusually broad, including significant depth in such disparate fields as mathematics, microbiology, and software engineering, in addition to biophysics. Current research includes developing and maintaining the Tool for Identifying Mobility in Macromolecular Ensembles (TIMME), a statistical system for analyzing collections of snapshot configurations of macromolecules. Other research projects include benchmarking Framework Rigidity Optimized Dynamics Algorithm (FRODA), and studying time constants for protein conformational transitions. |
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A representative conformation from an NMR ensemble of Adenylate Kinase (ADK; PDBID: 1P4S). Coloring is by TIMME inferred comoving cluster, with the largest cluster in blue and shown as a solid surface.
TIMME analysis of polystyrene spheres. This figure shows an overlay of 46 snapshots of microscopic polystyrene spheres between two glass slides and imaged by confocal microscopy. Coloring is by the cutoff where a site breaks apart from the largest cluster of comoving spheres, ranging from blue (0 microns) to red (0.5 microns). Spheres are shown at approximately 1/4 of their actual size. Data provided by Gao Yongxiang and Maria Kilfoil.
[Publication]
Stephen Wells, Scott Menor, Brandon Hespenheide and M. F. Thorpe, Constrained Geometric Simulation of Diffusive Motion in Proteins Physical Biology, 2005
[Publication]
M.F. Thorpe, Mykyta Chubynsky, Brandon Hespenheide, Scott Menor, Donald J. Jacobs, Leslie A. Kuhn, Maria I. Zavodszky, Ming Lei, A.J. Rader and Walter Whiteley, Flexibility in Biomolecules Article for the Sir Roger Elliott Festschift to be published by Imperial College Press (London)
[Publication]
Mykyta Chubynsky, Anthony R. Day, Brandon Hespenheide, Donald J. Jacobs, Ming Lei, Scott Menor, A.J. Rader, M.F. Thorpe, Walter Whiteley and Maria I. Zavodszky Constraint Theory applied to Proteins Article to be published in the proceedings of the Indo-US work- shop, 2004 by Nova publishers.
[Publication]
Choi, S.K., Menor, S.A., and Yuh, J., �Distributed Virtual Environment Collaborative Simulator for Underwater Robots,� The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2000, Takamatsu, JAPAN, Oct. 2000.