Abby Parrill
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Memphis
United States of America
Biography
She received Distinguished Research Award, University of Memphis Alumni Association, 2011 Distinguished Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Memphis, 2008 Olin Atkins Professorship, University of Memphis, 2007-2010 Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Memphis, 2007 Research Paper Competition Award, University of Memphis Sigma Xi Chapter, 2001 Early Career Research Award, University of Memphis College of Arts and Sciences, 2000.
Research Interest
Research interests in the Parrill group are in the areas broadly described as computational structural biology and rational ligand design. The rapid growth of experimental techniques that probe the three-dimensional structure of biologically important structures such as proteins have provided a wealth of information that can be used to study protein structure and design ligands that will bind to these molecules. Such ligands can be used to gather additional information that is useful for the optimization of drugs and molecules with other important functions. Specific projects related to both computational structural biology and rational ligand design involve studies of the interactions between existing or newly designed ligands with interesting biological targets.
