Collaborations                                 

Olle Edholm, Dept. Physics, Theoretical Biological Physics, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.  Project includes comparing MD simulations with x-ray experimental data.   http://www.theophys.kth.se/~oed

NorbertKučerka, National Research Council of Canada, Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River, Canada.  Projects include use of computer software to compare simulation, x-ray and neutron scattering data, ULVs. http://www.norbbi.com/

Jonathan Sachs, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN.  Projects include alpha-synuclein and comparisons of MD simulations and x-ray data of cholesterol/lipid.  http://sachslab.umn.edu/

Richard Pastor, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, Laboratory of Computational Biology, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD Project focused on MD simulations of component volumes and comparison to experiment. https://www.lobos.nih.gov/mbs/rpastor.shtml

Beate Kloesgen, Dept. of Physics and Chemistry, Univ. S. Denmark, Odense, Denmark. Project includes study of fluctuations in charged lipid systems and hydration chamber design. http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ifk_fysik_og_kemi.aspx

Angel Garcia, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Project studied MD simulation of Tat peptide in membranes. agarcia@lanl.gov

Berthony Deslouches, Dept. Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Project studies interaction between rationally designed small peptides with lipid model membranes which are mimics of bacterial and eukaryotic cell membranes. https://publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/berthony-deslouches

Y. Peter Di, Dept. Environmental and occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Project studies interaction between anitmicrobial peptides derived from the lung protein SPLUNC1 and their interaction with lipid model membranes as mimics of bacterial and eukaryotic cell membranes. https:/publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/yuanpu-di

Robert K. Ernst, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD. Project involves the use of purified lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a mimc for the outer leaflet of the Gram-negative double membrane. https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/micropath/research/dr-robert-ernst-lab/biography/

M. Goñi, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. Project involves the x-ray study of mixtures of ceramide and sphingomyelin that form domains. https://www.biomembranes.nl/?ib seminar=felix-goni             

Dolores Carrer, Biophysics and Nanotechnology, Institute Ferreyra in Cordoba, Argentina. Project involved the x-ray study of four drugs that are used to treat leishmaniasis. http://www.institutoferreyra.org/en/biophysics         

Fernando Dupuy, Instituo Superior de Investigaciones Biologicas (INSIBIO) CONICET- UNT and Instituto de Quimica Biologica "Dr Bernabe Bloj", Facultad de Bioquimica, Quimica y Farmacia, UNT, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. Project involved the x-ray study of two antimicrobial peptides designed in the Deslouches and Di labs. https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new scp/detalle.php?id=26092&datos academicos=yes

Frank Heinrich, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), Gaithersburg, MD and Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Project involves neutron reflectometry of the interaction of antimicrobial peptides with lipid model membrane mimics. https://www.cmu.edu/physics/people/faculty/heinrich.html          

M. Ravi Shankar, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Project involves a light-activated disordering of block-copolymers studied using x-ray scattering. https://www.engineering,pitt.edu/MRaviShankar/

Tomasz Kowalewski, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Project involves x-ray scattering of charge-carrying di-block co-polymers. https://www.cmu.edu/chemistry/people/faculty/kowalewski

Stephen B. Hall, Divison of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR. Project is to study the biophysics of the lung surfactant proteins on lipid model membranes using x-ray diffuse scattering. https://www.ohsu.edu/people/stephen-b-hall-md-phd