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Protein Structure and Dynamics · Molecular Biology

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h-index46
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Publications331
Citations12,248

Grants

12 total · 2 active

NSF #2429504

EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Growth of Large Single Crystals of Noncentrosymmetric Compounds and Study of Their Nonlinear Optical Properties.

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2025-02-01 → 2027-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Alabama in Huntsville

NIH #R35GM127084

Models and Algorithms for Biological Networks and Polymers: Stochastic Probability Landscape and Chromatin Ensembles

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2018-05-01 → 2026-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R03OD036492

Predicting 3D physical gene-enhancer interactions through integration of GTEx and 4DN data

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2023-09-20 → 2024-09-19
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

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All Grants

12 total · 2 active

NSF #2429504

EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Growth of Large Single Crystals of Noncentrosymmetric Compounds and Study of Their Nonlinear Optical Properties.

Active
Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2025-02-01 → 2027-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Alabama in Huntsville

NIH #R35GM127084

Models and Algorithms for Biological Networks and Polymers: Stochastic Probability Landscape and Chromatin Ensembles

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2018-05-01 → 2026-12-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R03OD036492

Predicting 3D physical gene-enhancer interactions through integration of GTEx and 4DN data

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2023-09-20 → 2024-09-19
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R03OD032628

Constructing High-Resolution Ensemble Models of 3D Single-Cell Chromatin Conformations of eQTL Loci from Integrated Analysis of 4DN-GTEx Data towards Structural Basis of Differential Gene Expression

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2021-09-22 → 2023-09-21
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R01CA204962

Database and Tools for Functional Inference and Mechanistic Insight into Somatic Cancer Mutations

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2017-04-01 → 2020-03-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R21AI126308

Constructing Ensembles of 3D Structures of Igh Locus and Predicting Novel Chromosomal Interactions

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2017-08-18 → 2019-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NIH #R01GM079804

Computational Assembly of Beta Barrel Membrane Protein

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2007-03-01 → 2018-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NSF #0800257

Collaborartive Research: Monte Carlo Study of Pseudoknotted RNA Molecules: Motifs, Structure and Folding

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2008-07-15 → 2013-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Chicago

NIH #R01GM081682

High-Accuracy Models of Proteins from Remote Homology

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2007-09-15 → 2010-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

NSF #0646035

Tools and Databases for Enzyme Function Prediction and Active Site Identification: Evolutionary Matching of Protein Surfaces

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2007-08-01 → 2009-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Chicago

NSF #0133856

CAREER: A Database for Modeling Protein Spatial Geometry -Discovering Protein Functions

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2002-09-01 → 2007-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Chicago

NSF #0078270

A Database of Protein Topographic Surfaces from Computational Geometry

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2000-10-01 → 2003-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Chicago

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Characterization of the OsEXO70 gene family and their response to salt stress in rice (BMC Genomics)2026-04-21
  2. New preprint: A Chromatin-Structure-Guided Framework for Predictive and Interpretable Regulatory Genomics2025-11-05
  3. New NSF award: EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Growth of Large Single Crystals of Noncentrosymmetric Compounds and Study of Their Nonlinear Optical Properties.2025-02-01

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