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Mingzhi Chen
Baylor College of MedicineDepartment: Biochemistry & Molecular BiologyAddress: One Baylor Plaza, Rm. 326B Houston, TX 77030 Phone: (713) 798-8190 Fax: (713) 796-9438 Email: mingzhi.chen@credit-suisse.com Web: sigler.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu/MaLab |
Education
Fudan University, Department of Physics, Shanghai, P.R.China (2003) B.S.
Baylor Collge of Medicine, Structrual and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics, Houston, TX (2007) Ph.D.
Mentor: Jianpeng Ma, Ph.D.
Honors
W.M.Keck Center Predoctoral Fellowship (July 1, 2004)
W.M.Keck Center Predoctoral Fellowship (July 1, 2005)
Best SCBMB Oral Presentation, 2006 CMB and SCBMB Research Conference, Oct. 6-7, 2006
SCBMB Nominee for the 2006 Deborah K. Martin Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences
John R. Kelsey, Jr. Student Speaker Award, Graduate Student Symposium. Nov. 9, 2006
Invited Student Speaker in 51st Biophysics Society Meeting, Baltimore, 2007
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2007
Research Topic
Research Description
Selected Publications
- B. K. Muralidhara, Mingzhi Chen, Jianpeng Ma and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Effect of Inorganic Phosphate on FMN Binding and Loop Flexibilit in Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. J. Mol. Biol. (2005) 349, 87-97
- Yinghao Wu, Mingzhi Chen, Mingyang Lu, Qinghua Wang and Jianpeng Ma, Determining Protein Topology from Skeletons of Secondary Structures. J. Mol. Biol. (2005) 350, 571-586
- Yinghao Wu, Xia Tian, Mingyang Lu, Mingzhi Chen Qinghua Wang and Jianpeng Ma, Folding of Small Helical Proteins Assisted by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Profiles. Structure (2005) 13, 1587-1597.
- Michael Perham, Mingzhi Chen, Jianpeng Ma, and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Unfolding of Heptameric Co-chaperonin Protein Follows "Fly Casting" Mechanism: Observation of Transient Nonnative Heptamer. J. AM. CHEM. SOC. (2005) 127, 16402-16403
- Rajesh R. Singh, Kumaralal Kaluarachchi, Mingzhi Chen, Suresh K,Rayala, Seetharaman Balasenthil, Jianpeng Ma, and Rakesh Kumar, Solution Structure and Antiestrogenic Activity of the Unique C-terminal, NR-box Motif-containing Region of MTA1S. J. Biol. Chem. (2006) 281, 25612-25621
- Mingzhi Chen, Corey J. Wilson, Yinghao Wu, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, and Jianpeng Ma, Correlation between Protein Stability Cores and Protein Folding Kinetics: A Case Study on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Apo-Azurin. Structure (2006) 14, 1401-1410
- Yinghao Wu, Mingyang Lu, Mingzhi Chen, Jialin Li, and Jianpeng Ma, OPUS-Ca: a knowledge-based potential function requiring only Calpha positions. Protein Sci. (2007) 16, 1449-63
- Feng Cheng, Qinghua Wang, Mingzhi Chen, Florante A. Quiocho, and Jianpeng Ma, Molecular docking study of the interactions between the thioesterase domain of human fatty acid synthase and its ligands. Proteins. (2007)
Last edited on: February 19, 2008