Kuczera Group Members

Current group


Brent Lee 2014- Chemistry graduate student Transport of small peptides through membranes
Jinyan He 2016- Chemistry graduate student Modulating protein-protein interactions with peptides
Kyler Ross 2019- Chemistry graduate student Protein and peptide kinetic modeling and spectroscopy (joint with Carey Johnson)


Very special collaborator (more like family member, really)

Gouri Jas, 1997- Associate Professor, Baylor University Gouri and KK are collaborating on protein and peptide folding.


Past group members

Gouri Jas, 1995-1997 postdoctoral fellow Simulations of calmodulin dynamics; simulations of chromophore rotational diffusion in solution; theoretical vibrational spectroscopy.
Yan Wang, 1992-1997 Chemistry graduate student Simulations of disulfide bond influence on peptide structure, dynamics and thermodynamics.
Ann Hermone, 1994-1998 Biochemistry graduate student Free energy simulations of retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin. Structure and dynamics of host-guest complexes.
Kyung-Hoon Lee 1998-2000 Chemistry graduate student Simulations of heme-protein mimics (joint with Prof. David Benson).
Janaki Ananth, 1998-2001 Chemistry graduate student Simulations of peptide equilibria in solution.
Cheng Yang 1999-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow Simulations of calmodulin in solution.
Qinyi Cheng 2001-2004 Molecular Biosciences graduate student Simulations of cytochrome b5 mutants
Bessie Wang 2000-2004 Molecular Biosciences graduate student Modeling of SAH hydrolase structure and function (joint with Prof. Ron Borchardt).
Andrew Giessel 2002-2005 Undergraduate Student Bioinformatics and modeling of ATP-synthase gamma subunit
Yihong Zhu 2002-2005 Molecular Biosciences graduate student Development and application of implicit solvation models
Chen Hu 2004-2005 Molecular Biosciences graduate student Modeling of SAH hydrolase structure and function (joint with Dr. Borchardt)
Ranjitha Venkataramani 2005-2007 Chemistry graduate student Protein dynamics and folding; modeling of holo- and apo-cytochrome b5.
Yao Houndonougbo 2002-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow Modeling of phospholamban and CO2-expanded liquids
Sumin Cai 2004-2008 Molecular Biosciences graduate student SAH hydrolase - inhibitor design and cofactor interactions (joint with Prof. Ron Borchardt).
Sudarshan Parthasarathy 2006-2011 Molecular Biosciences graduate student Effects of site-directed mutagenesis on properties of cytochrome b5

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