Alexey Onufriev Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Physics, 660 McBryde (MC 0106), Virginia Tech Telephone: 540-231-4237 E-mail @cs.vt.edu : alexey

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Active Research Areas: Biomolecular Electrostatics How can one compute, accurately and efficiently, the long-range electrostatic forces that play crucial role in determining biological properties of macromolecules? Protein Dynamics How does the oxygen storage and carrier protein myoglobin uptake the oxygen molecule? DNA compaction and bending How is the DNA compacted at its most fundamental level inside the cell -- the nucleosome? And exactly how flexible is it? Insights into the RNAi mechanism Can we use bioinformatics to help us understand how small fragments of RNA interact with the messenger RNA?     Other things I worked on: Protein Folding One of the largest challenges in modern science is working out how proteins curl up into their complex shapes... Theory of Cooperative Ligand Binding Cooperative ligand binding is a complex phenomenon... Proton-pumping mechanism of Bacteriorhodopsin Bacteriorhodopsin is the smallest autonomous light-harvesting system..