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David N. LeBard - Graduate Student (PhD, expected Dec. 2008)
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Office: PSF 381 (Center for Biological Physics)
Phone: (480) 727-7050
Email: david.lebard@asu.edu
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| Research Interests: |
Electron transfer reactions in photosynthetic systems
Dynamics and structure of biological liquids
Charge transfer in DNA
Parallel computing in large scale simulation and analysis
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| Curriculum Vitae: |
Education
May 2006-present, PhD Candidate, Chemistry, Arizona State University
BS, 2004 Biochemistry, Arizona State University
BA, 2004 German, Arizona State University
Teaching
2004 (Fall) TA - CHM 343, Arizona State University
2005 (Spring) TA - CHM 116, Arizona State University
2005 (Fall) TA - CHM 343, Arizona State University
2006 (Spring) TA - BCH 463, Arizona State University
Awards
2002 NSF REU Summer Fellowship,
Arizona State University
2003 Hypercube Scholar Award,
Arizona State University
2004 Marshall Fixmann Fellowship,
Colorado State University
2005 Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept. Summer RA,
Arizona State University
2007 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant,
Arizona State University
2008 GPSA Travel Grant,
Arizona State University
Posters
2003 American Chemical Society, New Orleans
Redox thermodynamics of plastocyanin in aqueous solution. (335-PHYS)
2004 American Chemical Society, Anaheim
Solvent Reorganization Energy of Charge Transfer in DNA Hairpins. (147-COMP)
2007 13th Annual SDSC Summer Institute
Using Parallel Biomolecular Analysis Software
to Predict Solvation Thermodynamics for an Electron Transfer Protein. (pdf)
Presentations
2008 American Physical Society, New Orleans
Glassy protein dynamics and gigantic solvent
reorganization energy of plastocyanin (U40.00009) (pdf)
2008 Biophest 2008, Tucson
Energetics and kinetics of primary charge separation
in bacterial photosynthesis
Workshops
2005 Modeling Proteins and Nucleic Acids with
Amber, VMD and the MMTSB Toolkit,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (Carnegie Mellon)
2007 13th Annual SDSC Summer Institute
San Diego Supercomputer Center (UCSD)
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| Publications: |
"Solvent Reorganization Energy of Charge Transfer in DNA Hairpins"
D.N. LeBard, M. Lilichenko, D.V. Matyushov, Yu. A. Berlin, and M. A. Ratner, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 14509-14520
"Glassy protein dynamics and gigantic solvent reorganization energy of plastocyanin"
D.N. LeBard and D.V. Matyushov, J. Phys. Chem. B, ASAP, 2008
"Redox Entropy of Plastocyanin: Developing a Microscopic View of
Mesoscopic Solvation"
D. N. LeBard and D. V. Matyushov
, J. Chem. Phys. , In Press., 2008
"Energetics and kinetics of primary charge separation in bacterial photosynthesis"
D. N. LeBard, Vitaliy Kapko, and D. V. Matyushov
, J. Phys. Chem. B, Submitted, 2008
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