Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Molecular Biophysics'
- Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics Section
- Molecular Biology Section
- Biochemistry Section
- Molecular Plant Sciences Section
- Molecular Oncology Section
- Molecular Neurobiology Section
- Molecular Immunology Section
- Materials Science Section
- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Section
- Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism Section
- Molecular Pharmacology Section
- Bioactives and Nutraceuticals Section
- Molecular Microbiology Section
- Molecular Biophysics Section
- Molecular Toxicology Section
- Macromolecules Section
- Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Section
- Molecular Informatics Section
- Molecular Nanoscience Section
- Molecular Recognition Section
- Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Section
- Bioinorganic Chemistry Section
- Green Chemistry Section
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Members
Interests: radiation damage and DNA repair; pathways to preserving mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial dysfunction; radiation mutagenesis; anti-mutagenesis; anti-carcinogenesis; extracellular circulating DNA; NUMT pseudogenes; free radicals and antioxidants; radioprotectors und radiomitigators; aging and geroprotectors
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Interests: mitotic-spindle; kinesin-related motor proteins; cell-cycle; cancer; microtubule; cytoskeleton
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Interests: apply, create and maintain web-accessible databases of experimental and computational data, for understanding the structure/function of proteins expressed in the nervous system in its normal function and in neurological disorders; structural neuroinformatics; development of multiscale approaches aimed at gaining insights into the structure/function of receptors of neurobiological interest; bridging in silico molecular description of synaptic receptors with a systems biology level description of the signaling mechanisms
Interests: GPCR; opioid receptors; dopamine signaling; agonist efficacy; biased agonism; receptor oligomerization; allosteric modulation; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics; mathematical modeling
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Interests: investigations of protein structure and function and oligomerization; pancreatic-type Ribonucleases (RNase A, BS-RNase, Onconase) covalent or non-covalent oligomerization through 3D domain swapping; antitumor activity of covalent or domain-swapped RNase oligomers, in vitro and in mice; studies of the mechanism(s) of RNases oligomerization; investigations on the in vitro alpha-synuclein aggregation
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Interests: drug design; peptides; peptidomimetics; molecular dynamics simulations; MM-GBSA; binding free energy
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Interests: voltage and ligand gated ion channel structure and function; channelopathies; signaling transduction; G-protein coupled receptors structure and function; epilepsy and metabolism; variants and pathogenic mutations
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Interests: proteins; molecular structure; thermodynamics; drug design; chemoinformatics
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Interests: cancer therapies; chemoresistance; microdomains; cell signaling
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Interests: deep learning; protein and molecular design; Bayesian modelling and estimation
Interests: development and applications of molecular spectroscopy techniques in microbiogy; FTIR and Raman biospectroscopy; mossbauer spectroscopy in life sciences
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Interests: single-molecule biophysics; computational biology; molecular motors; macromolecular assemblies; sensory transduction
Interests: soft condensed matter physics; ionic liquids, energy storage, supercapacitors; phase transitions, critical Casimir forces; colloids; biophysics, diffusion in crowded environments; simulations
Interests: bioinformatics; therapy resistance in cancer; neuroendocrine lung; prostate cancers
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Interests: nanomedicine; cancer therapy; radiation
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Interests: peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor; matrix metalloproteinases; fatty acid amide hydrolase
Interests: photosynthesis; biophysics; light-harvesting; ultrafast spectroscopy
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Interests: biomolecules; pi-electronic systems; melanin; melanomagenesis; laser spectroscopy; fluorescence diagnostics of tumors
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Interests: nanotoxicology; cell biophysics; cell mechanics; molecular biology
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Interests: microRNAs; ncRNAs; lncRNAs; transcription factors; gene regulatory networks; bistability and oscillatory gene expression; feedback and feed-forward loops; complex inherited neuroendocrine tumors; stem-cell differentiation; epigenetic modulation of phenotypic plasticity; ribozymes; RNA nanoparticles; RNA therapeutics
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Interests: ion channels; membrane transport; lipid bilayer membranes; patch-clamp; electrophysiology; nanobiotechnology; bioinspired medical devices; biotechnology; bioengineering
Interests: liposomes; membrane interactions; topical vehicles
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Interests: protein folding; protein-membrane interaction; protein structure-to-function relationship; protein fluorescence
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Interests: computational glycosciences; structure and dynamics of glycans; homology modeling; docking; molecular dynamics simulation, replica-exchange molecular dynamics; binding free-energy prediction; Linear Interaction Energy (LIE) approach; umbrella sampling; free-energy perturbation (FEP); GPU computing
Interests: protein structure and function; structural biology of membrane proteins; chromatin remodelers; viruses including SARS-CoV-2
2. Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: data science; drug discovery; deep learning; computational chemistry; structural biology; protein–protein complexes; modeling; GPCRs; functional selectivity
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Interests: structural biology; glycobiology; biochemistry
Interests: electroanalytical methods; chromatographic techniques; mass spectrometry; food science
2. Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: chromatin structure and function; histone modifications; histone demethylases inhibitors
Interests: vibrational spectroscopy; FTIR spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; chemometrics; spectropathology
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