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John
E. Straub
Professor
Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Biophysics
Office:
SCI 503
Phone: 617-353-6816
Fax: 617-353-6466
E-mail: straub@bu.edu
Office
hours: By
appointment
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| Degrees |
- BS, University of Maryland, 1982
- MA, Columbia University, 1984
- MPhil, Columbia University, 1986
- PhD, Columbia University, 1987
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1987-1990
- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Israel, 1998
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| Honors |
- Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, 2005
- Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, Boston University, 2003
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1995-1997
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1987-1990
- Pegram Research Award, Columbia University, 1986
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| Funding |
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
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| Teaching |
- CC 106 - Core Natural Sciences II (The Evolution of Intelligent
Life and Beyond)
- CH 101/102 - General Chemistry
- CH 111/112 - General and Quantitative Analytical Chemistry
- CH 352 - Physical Chemistry II
- CH 455/752 - Computational Chemistry and Biophysics
- CH 655/656 - Statistical Mechanics I/II
- CH 801 - Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing
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Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulations of biomolecules,
liquids and clusters; short time dynamics and vibrational energy
transfer in heme proteins; kinetics and thermodynamics of amyloid
peptide aggregation; algorithms for global optimization, enhanced
sampling, ligand docking and crystal prediction; reaction path
determination and direct simulation of long time processes in peptides
and proteins.
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