Research Areas

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Protein Folding

Protein Folding

Predicting Folding Dynamics

Predicting Folding Dynamics

Photoswitchable allosteric proteins

Photoswitchable allosteric proteins

Membrane Proteins

Membrane Proteins

Psi analysis

Psi analysis

Conformational Entropy

Conformational Entropy

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J.M. Mancl, W.G. Liang, N.L. Bayhi, H. Wei, W. Budell, J.H. Mendez, T.R. Sosnick, B. Carragher, C.S. Potter, W.J. Tang, "Characterization and modulation of human insulin degrading enzyme conformational dynamics to control enzyme activity" bioRxiv 2024.12.30.630732

K.L. Kroll, T.R. Sosnick, R.S. Rock, "Design and Use of AsLOV2-Based Optogenetic Tools for Actin Imaging. " Baumschlager, A. (eds) Optogenetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2840 (2025) 89-100.

N. Zhang, D. Sood, S.C. Guo, N. Chen, A. Antoszewski, T. Marianchuk, S. Dey, Y. Xiao, L. Hong, X. Peng, M.C. Baxa, C. Partch, L.P. Wang, T.R. Sosnick, A.R. Dinner, A. LiWang, "Temperature-dependent fold-switching mechanism of the circadian clock protein KaiB" Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 121 (2024) e2412327121.

University of Chicago
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophsyics
Biophysical Sciences
Institute for Molecular Engineering
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
UChicago
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
NIH