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Educational Background
BS, Biochemistry, Albright College, Reading PA
Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Postdoctoral Fellowships: University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (MIT), Boston, MA.
Teaching Interests
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Physics of Biological Macromolecules, Computational Biophysics Laboratory, General Physics, Research Topics in Structural and Computational Biophysics
Research Interests
Our primary research interest is in understanding the relationship between protein structure, dynamics and function. Proteins are large molecules that play an important role in how cells, organs and organisms function. If we can better understand the fundamental chemical and physical rules that govern protein structure and function, then we can better understand how proteins function in healthy humans and in disease states. The research will lead to a better understanding and better treatments of diseases in humans.
Our research group is diverse and interdisciplinary. It involves efforts in bioinformatics and computational biophysics and biology and we actively collaborate with researchers in physics, chemistry, computer science, and mathematics, as well as researchers at Wake Forest’s medical school. Undergraduate students in biology, chemistry, and computer science have participated in our research program and several of them have completed honors theses and won awards for their research.
The research is funded by both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Personal Interests
I very much enjoy cooking and gardening. I also regularly participate in the yoga classes offered at Wake Forest and I am a casual runner.
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