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The focus of our lab is to acquire a quantitative mechanistic characterization of synaptic players at different length scales, from a single protein to the synapse level, to describe this complexity and towards understanding of the molecular nature of information processing in the brain. We do so by developing quantitative biophysical and cell biology analyses using cutting edge single molecule and high throughput approaches that draw from cell biology, chemistry, physics and engineering.
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PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… → 2012
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C-093: Visualizing the dynamic process of activation and modulation of adhesion GPCRs
Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust
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DNAcycP: a deep learning tool for DNA cyclizability prediction
Li, K., Carroll, M., Vafabakhsh, R., Wang, X. A. & Wang, J. P., Apr 8 2022, In: Nucleic acids research. 50, 6, p. 3142-3154 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mechanism of sensitivity modulation in the calcium-sensing receptor via electrostatic tuning
Schamber, M. R. & Vafabakhsh, R., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 2194.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A viral genome packaging ring-ATPase is a flexibly coordinated pentamer
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