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Enforced large-scale motions in proteins	Exploring the quinol oxidation mechanism at the Qo-site of bc1 complex through site-directed mutagenesis

Molecular basis of cell adhesion mechanics	Life under tension: Computational studies of proteins involved in mechanotransduction

Elucidating targets for infectious diseases and cancer: A computational approach	Enzymes as drug targets in the isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway: Structure, mechanism and inhibition

Development of a fluorescence lifetime based method to detect and analyze single molecule reactions in solution	Dynamics of UV-excited uracil, thymine, and cytosine

Studies of protein-protein and protein-water interactions by small angle x-ray scattering, terahertz spectroscopy, ASMOS, and computer simulation	Applications of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a tool for structure based drug design

NMR, crystallographic and computational investigations of peptides, proteins and bisphosphonates: New paradigms for rational drug design	Novel MRI contrast agents based on functional DNA and nanomaterial conjugates for biomedical applications

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of macromolecular complexes	FTIR difference spectroscopy studies on membrane proteins

Molecular mechanisms of gating, selectivity, and transport in membrane channels and carriers	Force studies of multiple kinesin-1 and Eg5 molecular motors

Exploring downhill protein folding free energy landscapes	Molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion

Direct QM/MM simulations of the excited state dynamics of Retinal Protonated Schiff Base in isolation and in complex environments	Information-based torsion angle potential for proteins and applications

Using synthetic nanopores for single-molecule analyses: Detecting SNPs, trapping DNA molecules, and the prospects for sequencing DNA	Ligand binding and structural dynamics in c-type cytochromes

Computational investigation of protein-membrane systems involved in cellular trafficking	Dynamics and structures of phospholipid assemblies

Study of enzyme evolution within the MLE subgroup focusing on characterizing member enzymes for the purpose of discovering relationships among sequence, structure, and function	Single molecule study of weak and transient biological interactions

Studies on critical proton pathway residues in the AA3-type cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides	Analysis of molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding

Cadherin specificity in adhesion and mechanotransduction	Transport properties of synthetic nanopores

Simulation and visualization of dynamics in RNA·protein complexes in translation	EPR and solid-state NMR studies on the mechanism of cytochrome BO3 ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli

Structural transitions in self-assembled lipid systems driven by induced curvature: From cell-penetrating peptides to programmable vesicles	Computational investigations of evolutionary transitions during development of the cellular translation and transcription machinery

Investigating the mechanisms of protein synthesis using multi-resolution structural data	Fluorescence lifetime-resolved imaging microscopy studies: Quantitative image analysis, spectral-flim, and photosynthesis

Nanopore technology for DNA sequencing	Computational investigations of cellular functions: Three cases on membrane morphogenesis, organization and assembly of a multi-protein complex, and the molecular origin of muscle elasticity

Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer study of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion	Optofluidic microchip for biomedical and chemical sensing

Voltage-gating mechanism in potassium channels	Transcription factor engineering: Tools and applications

Using photo-instability to quantify fluorophores and achieve super-resolution imaging	Rapid two-photon holographic scan microscopy with individual quantum dots and its applications in biological samples

Protein folding in crowded environments and living cells	Single-molecule and ensemble studies of DNA replication system

The binding pockets of QA and QB in the photosynthetic reaction center of Rba. sphaeroides probed by pulsed EPR	Geometric methods for optimizing ramified flow networks

Gene regulation in Escherichia coli beyond the "rate" approximation	Elucidation of the mycosamine dependent sterol binding and antifungal activites of amphotericin B

Modeling the interface between biological and synthetic components in hybrid nanosystems	Domain-based approaches to understanding phylogeny and orthology

Kinetics and regulation of the initial stages of cadherin-mediated adhesion