Dmitrii E. Makarov
Professor
Computational Life Sciences and Biology
Texas A and M University
United States of America
Biography
Dmitrii E. Makarov received his undergraduate degree in physics in 1990 from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a PhD in theoretical physics in 1992 from the Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow. After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Santa Barbara, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Research Interest
Protein translocation, mechanical properties of proteins, the dynamics of molecular knots, and formation of loops in DNA
Publications
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Makarov DE. Interplay of non-Markov and internal friction effects in the barrier crossing kinetics of biopolymers: Insights from an analytically solvable model. The Journal of chemical physics. 2013 Jan 7;138(1):014102.
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Makarov DE. Individual proteins under mechanical stress: lessons from theory and computer simulations. InSingle-molecule Studies of Proteins 2012 (pp. 235-268). Springer New York.
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Konda SS, Brantley JN, Varghese BT, Wiggins KM, Bielawski CW, Makarov DE. Molecular catch bonds and the anti-Hammond effect in polymer mechanochemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2013 Aug 19;135(34):12722-9.
