Section Editorial Boards
Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
Green Chemistry
Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
Molecular Pathology
Molecular Toxicology
Molecular Recognition
Molecular Diagnostics
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Section Board for 'Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics'
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrei Alexandrescu
Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, BSP 209, 91 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3125, Storrs, CT 06269-3125, USA
Tel. +1 860 486 4414; Fax: +1 860 486 4331
Website: http://mcb.uconn.edu/fac.php?name=alexandrescuat E-Mail:
Interests: protein folding; amyloids; alzheimer\'s disease; parkinson\'s disease; type II diabetes; structural biology; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; structural bioinformatics; protein misfolding; neuromuscular junction proteins; OB-fold proteins; protein dynamics; biophysics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Protein Folding
Prof. Dr. Lajos Kovacs
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Universtiy of Szeged, Dom ter 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
Tel. +36 62 54 51 45; Fax: +36 62 42 59 71
Website: http://www.mdche.u-szeged.hu/~kovacs/nal.html E-Mail:
Interests: preparative organic chemistry of carbohydrates; nucleobases; nucleosides; C-nucleosides; peptide nucleic acids; indoles; alkaloids; polyamines; heterocycles; protecting groups; chemical information management
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nucleic Acid Derivatives in Emerging Technologies
Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst *
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, CHN, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 1 632 4368; Fax: +41 1 632 1257
Website: http://www.chab.ethz.ch/personen/emeritus/rernst E-Mail:
Interests: NMR; physical chemistry * Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Genxi Li
School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; And Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Tel. +86 25 83593596; Fax: +86 25 83592510
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Interests: molecular interaction; molecular recognition; protein; biologically active small molecules; medicinal herb molecules; biosensor; nano-biotechnology; bioelectrochemistry
Contribution:
Special Issue: Interaction of Biological Molecules
Dr. Valdur Saks
Laboratory of Bioenergetics, INSERM U884, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
Tel. +33 4 7663 5627; Fax: +33 4 7651 4218
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Interests: bioenergetics; systems biology; biophysics; enzymology; cell physiology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Molecular System Bioenergetics
Special Issue: Quantitative Modelling in Molecular System Bioenergetics
Special Issue: Molecular System Bioenergetics 2011
Dr. Clifford Louime
FAMU BioEnergy Group, Technology Building D, Room 12, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
Tel. +1 850 412 7395; Fax: +1 850 561 2617
Website: http://www.famu.edu/cesta/main/index.cfm/research/bioenergy/ E-Mail:
Interests: biofuels; biotic and abiotic stress; genomics; computational biology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biofuels R&D: Securing the Planet's Future Energy Needs
Prof. Dr. Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Institute of Biochemistry, Deptartment of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Greifswald University, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)3834 86 4367; Fax: +49 (0)3834 86 80066
Website: http://www.chemie.uni-greifswald.de/~biotech/ E-Mail:
Interests: biocatalysis; protein engineering; high-throughput screening; enantioselective synthesis
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Aparicio
Structural Biology Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, CP6154, CEP13084-862, Brazil
Tel. +55 19 3521 1105; Fax: +55 19 3521 3023
Website: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br/departamentos/?p=127&c=129&id=73 E-Mail:
Interests: structural biology; protein crystallography; SAXS
Contribution:
Special Issue: Protein Crystallography
Prof. Dr. Werner E.G. Müller
Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Tel. +49 6131 3925910; Fax: +49 6131 3925243
Website: http://www.biotecmarin.de/ E-Mail:
Interests: molecular evolution; molecular biotechnology; bio-silica; sponges; biomaterials
Dr. Nicole M. Bergmann
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University, 3507 Lindell, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Tel. +1 314 977 8350
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Interests: molecular recognition; molecular imprinting; drug delivery systems
Dr. Bing Yan
St. Jude Faculty, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Room 9064, M/S 1000, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Tel. +1 901 495 2797; Fax: +1 901 495 5715
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Interests: nanomedicine; nanotoxicity; cancer therapy; drug discovery; drug resistance; combinatorial chemistry; analytical sciences
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bioactive Nanoparticles
Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter
Molecular Biosciences, Haworth Hall, Room 4031, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-7534, USA
Tel. 785 864 3334
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Interests: ATP hydrolysis-driven motor proteins; biochemical and biophysical approaches to examining mechanisms by which protein-protein interactions lead to large conformational changes resulting in translational or rotational motion; structure and function of the photosynthetic F1-ATPase motor protein
Contribution:
Special Issue: Muscle Contraction Mechanism, Motor Proteins Function and Molecular Aspects of Water
Special Issue: Advances in Muscle Contraction Studies
Dr. Gregor Drummen
Guest Editor for MDPI, Switzerland
Tel. +49 211 40 51 810; Fax: +49 211 47 45 476
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Interests: quantum dots; bionanotechnology; two-photon fluorescence imaging; cellular imaging; fluorescence microscopy; nucleic acids; DNA damage; cancer; cell signaling; radiation biology; oxidative stress; lipids and biomembranes; lipid peroxidation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Quantum Dots: From Synthesis to Applications in Biomedicine and Life Sciences
Special Issue: Redox Signaling in Biology and Patho-Biology
Special Issue: Oxidative Stress and Ageing
In other journals: Special Issue: Fluorophores - The Fluorescent Toolbox in Biological and Biomedical Research
Prof. Dr. Julian Borejdo
Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Tel. +1 817 735 2106
Website: http://www.hsc.unt.edu/mbi/biography.cfm?id=167 E-Mail:
Interests: muscles; interactions between actin and myosin; biochemical approach to determine the proximity of actin to myosin; physico-chemical approach to measure the orientation of myosin in vivo; molecular biology approach (cloning mutants of myosin) to establish the role of various amino acid residues in muscle functions
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Martin
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011-1250 IA, USA
Tel. +1 515 294 2470
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Interests: muscle contraction; cell physiology; pharmacology; C. elegans; ascaris suum; ion-channels
Prof. Dr. Martin Gruebele
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, A220 Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Tel. +1 217 333 1624; Fax: +1 217 244 3186
Website: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/faculty/Martin_Gruebele.html E-Mail:
Interests: protein folding; RNA folding; downhill folding; protein-protein interactions; biomolecular simulation; temperature jump; small angle X-ray scattering
Dr. Walter Herzog
Human Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Tel. +1 403 220 8525; Fax: +1 403 284 3553
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Interests: muscle contraction mechanisms; titin; myosin; actin; optical trapping; myofibrils; single fibres; isolated sarcomeres
Prof. Dr. Paul R. Rosevear
Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Structural Biology Program, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
Tel. +1 513 558 3370
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Interests: contractile proteins; muscle contraction; calcium binding proteins; protein structure; nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); biophysical techniques
Prof. Dr. Zhen Huang
Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Room 540 General Classroom Building, 38 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3083, USA
Tel. (404) 413-5535 (Office); (404) 413-5534 (Lab); Fax: (404) 413-5505
Website: http://chemistry.gsu.edu/faculty/Huang/ E-Mail:
Interests: Nucleic acid synthesis, selenium derivatization of DNA and RNA, non-coding RNA, ribozyme, nucleic acid X-ray crystallography, RNA microchip, disease and pathogen rapid detection, cancer prevension and genetic mechamisms, new drug discovery
Dr. Mylène Durand-Tardif
Genetics and Plant Breeding Laboratory, Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute, INRA Centre of Versailles-Grignon, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
Tel. +33 (0)1 30 83 31 62
Website: http://www-ijpb.versailles.inra.fr/en/sgap/equipes/stress/index.htm E-Mail:
Interests: arabidopsis thaliana; phenotype; drought; osmotic; abiotic stress; natural variability; induced variability
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biotic and Abiotic Stress
Dr. Gianluigi Veglia
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 6-155 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Tel. +1 612 625 0758; Fax: +1 612 625 2163
Website: http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/veglia E-Mail:
Interests: muscle contractility; membrane proteins; calcium binding proteins; protein structure; nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); biophysical spectroscopy
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