Bo Chen
Associate Professor
physics
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Chen received his PhD in Physics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2007. He spent one year(2007-2008) as a Visiting Fellow and three years (2008-2011) as a Research Fellow in National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He joined UCF in 2011 where he is an Assistant Professor.
Research Interest
Dr. Bo Chen’s research is on self-assembled structures by proteins. His research utilizes transmission electron microscopy, solid state NMR, molecular modeling and simulation to investigate the structure and mechanism of such self-assembled structures.
Publications
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Qiao X*, Jeon J*, Weber J*, Zhu F, and Bo Chen. “Construction of a novel coarse grain model for simulations of HIV capsid assembly to capture the backbone structure and inter-domain motions in solutionâ€. Data in brief, 5:506-512(2015).
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Bo Chen. “HIV capsid assembly, mechanism and structureâ€. Invited article for Current Topics in Biochemistry, 55(18): 2539-52 (2016).
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Jaekyun Jeon*, Xin Qiao*, Ivan Hung, Alok K. Mitra, Ambroise Desfosses, Daniel Huang*, Peter L. Gor’kov, Rebecca C. Craven, Richard L. Kingston, Zhehong Gan, Fangqiang Zhu, and Bo Chen. “Structural model of the tubular assembly of the rous sarcoma virus capsid proteinâ€, JACS, in press, DOI:1021/jacs.6b11939.
