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Graduate students
 
  
   
   
 
Arash Bahrami
 
abahrami@wisc.edu
 
(608) 263-9498
 
  
 
Anna Fuzery
  
fuzery@nmrfam.wisc.edu
  
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3117
 
  
 
 
Jin Hae Kim
 
jhkim23@wisc.edu
 
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3116
  
 
Ian Lewis
  
ialewis@wisc.edu
  
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3102
 
 
 
 
Sannali Matheson
 
sannalim@yahoo.com
 
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3104
 
  
 
Kuang-Lung Hsueh
 
hsueh@wisc.edu
  
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3119
  
 
 
 
Liya Wang
 
liyawang@wisc.edu
 
(608) 263-2968
  
 
Greg Zornetzer
 
gaz@nmrfam.wisc.edu
  
(608) 262-4687 ext. 3101
 
 
   
 
 
     
     
Staff    
 
 
  
  
   
James Radek
 
jradek@nmrfam.wisc.edu
  
(608) 262-1754 ext. 3105
  
 
 
 
Kirsten Sorum
 
kasorum@wisc.edu
 
(608) 262-1754 ext. 3105
   
   
     
Past Members:

 

    
Postdoctoral fellows    
  Masanobu Chinami    
  Research period: 1986-1988  
  Ph.D. degree: Kurume University School of Medicine; 1982  
  Title of research project: NMR titration studies of staphylococcal nuclease  
       
       
  Mike Reily    
  Research period: 1987-1988  
  Ph.D. degree: Emory University; 1987  
  Title of research project: NMR studies of cytochrome c553  
       
       
  Mark E. Anderson    
  Research period: 1987-1990  
  Ph.D. degree: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; 1987  
  Title of research project: Physiological NMR spectroscopy  
       
       
  Michael Zehfus    
  Research period: 1987-1990  
  Ph.D. degree: Pennsylvania State Hershey Medical Center; 1987  
  Title of research project: NMR studies of cytrochrome c553  
       
       
  Prashanth Darba    
  Research period: 1989-1991  
       
       
  Charles McNemar    
  Research period: 1989-1991  
  Ph.D. degree: Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA; 1989  
  Title of research project: NMR studies of cytochrome c553  
       
       
  Lars Skjeldal    
  Research period: 1989-1991  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Trondheim, Norway; 1989  
  Title of research project: NMR studies of ferredoxins  
       
       
  Roger A. Chylla    
  Research period: 1990-1993  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 1990  
  Title of research project: Algorithms for processing protein NMR data  
       
       
  Zeljko, Dzakula    
  Research period: 1990-1993  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 1991  
  Title of research project: NMR analysis of mobile regions of protein structures  
       
       
  Frits Abildgaard    
  Research period: 1991-1993  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 1991  
  Title of research project: Multinuclear, multidimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins  
       
       
  Hong Cheng    
  Research period: 1991-1994  
  Ph.D. degree: Hunter College, City College of New York; 1991  
  Title of research project: NMR studies of iron-sulfur proteins  
       
       
  Honggao Yan    
  Research period: 1991-1994  
  Ph.D. degree: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 1991  
  Title of research project: NMR spectroscopy of proteins  
       
       
  Zsolt Zolnai    
  Research period: 1993-1995  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 1992  
  Title of research project: NMR spectroscopy  
       
       
  Barbara Lewis    
  Research period: 1993-1996  
       
       
  J?gen Schleucher    
  Research period: 1994-1997  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Frankfurt, Germany; 1994  
  Title of research project: NMR pulse sequence development  
       
       
  Brian F. Volkman    
  Research period: 1995-2000  
  Ph.D. degree: University of California at Berkeley; 1994  
  Title of research project: NMR spectroscopy of proteins  
       
       
  Henrik W. Anthonsen    
  Research period: 1996-1997  
  Ph.D. degree: Trondheim University, Norway; 1995  
  Title of research project: NMR spectroscopy of proteins  
       
       
  Fariba Assadi-Porter    
  Research period: 1998-1999, 2000  
  Ph.D. degree: Biomolecular Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
  Title of research project: Sweet protein and sweet taste receptor  
       
       
  Hikaru Hemmi    
  Research period: 1998-1999  
  Ph.D. degree: Tohoku University, Japan  
  Title of research project: Solution structure of an effector protein in toluene-4-monooxygenase complex (T4MOD)  
       
       
  Wen-Jin Wu    
  Research period: 1999- 2003  
  Ph.D. degree: State University of New York, Stony Brook; 1999  
       
       
  Timothy Machonkin    
  Research period: 2000-2003  
  Ph.D. degree: Stanford University; 2000  
  Title of research project: NMR investigations of iron-sulfur proteins and other metal-containing proteins  
       
       
  Claudia C. Cornilescu    
  Research period: 2002-2004  
  Ph.D. degree: University of Maryland; 2002  
       
       
  John L. Newman    
Research period: 2003-2005
  Ph.D. degree: University of Maryland; 2003  
  Title of research project: NMR studies on the oxidized form of T4moC; Studies on the VKORC1 membrane protein  
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Ph.D. students

   
  Michael A. Prubcan    
  Training period: 1973-1978  
  Previous degree: B.S. in Chemistry, St. Norbert College, 1971  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Serine Proteinases and Proteinase Inhibitors"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1978  
       
       
  Ignacio B. Ilbanez    
  Training period: 1974-1980  
  Previous degree: Chemist diploma, University of Chile, 1973  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Active Site of Bovine Chymotrypsinogen A and Chymotrypsin A2"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1980  
       
       
  William M. Westler    
  Training period: 1975-1980  
  Previous degree: B.S. in Chemistry, Grove City College, 1972; M.S. in Chemistry, John Carroll University, 1974  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of a-Lytic Proteinase, a Bacterial Serine Proteinasequot;  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1980  
       
       
  David H. Croll    
  Training period: 1976-1982  
  Previous degree: B.A. in chemistry, University of Montana, 1971  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Avian Ovomucoids and Their Isolated Domains"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1980  
       
       
  Tse-Ming Chan    
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry and physics, University of Hong Kong; M.S. in chemistry, University of Missouri-Kansas City  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Plant-Type Ferredoxins"  
       
       
  Gyung-Ihm Rhyu    
  Training period: 1980-1984  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea  
  Title of research project: "Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Phosphoglucomutase"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1984  
       
       
  Christopher L. Kojiro    
  Training period: 1977-1985  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, Purdue University, 1976  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the "Blue Copper" Protein Plastocyanin"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1985  
       
       
  Brian Tobias    
  Training period: 1981-1986  
  Previous degree: B.A. in chemistry, University of Arizona  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies on Serine Proteinases"  
    Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1986  
       
       
  Andrew D. Robertson    
  Training period: 1985-1988  
  Previous degree: B.S. in biochemistry, University of California, San Diego  
  Title of research project: "Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"  
    Ph.D. degree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988  
       
       
  Andrei T. Alexandrescu    
  Training period: 1984-1989  
  Previous degree: B.A. in chemistry, City College of New York, 1983  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Staphylococcal Nuclease: Effects of Solution Conditions and Sequence Changes on Conformational Forms"  
    Ph.D. degree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989  
       
       
  Brian J. Stockman    
  Training peridod: 1985-1989  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, University of Iowa, 1985  
  Title of research project: "Multinuclear NMR Studies of the Flavodoxin from Anabaena 7120: b-Sheet Structure and the Flavin Mononucleotide Binding Site"  
       
       
  Byung-Ha Oh    
  Training period: 1985-1989  
  Previous degree: B.Sc. in agriculture, Seoul National University, 1983; M.S. in food science (Enzyme Technology Laboratory), Seoul National University, 1985  
  Title of research project: "Multinuclear NMR Studies of the Plant-Type Ferredoxin from Vegetative Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120"  
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
       
       
  Andrew P. Hinck    
  Training period: 1987-1993  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, University of Puget Sound, 1987  
  Title of research project: "NMR Investgations of a Model Proline Cis:Trans Isomerization Reaction in Staphylococcal Nuclease"  
       
       
  Stewart N. Loh    
  Training period: 1987-1995  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, University of Utah, 1987  
  Title of research project: "Conformational Equilibria in Proteins: Hydrogen Exchange and Isotope Fractionation Studies of Staphylococcal Nuclease"  
       
       
  William F. Walkenhorst    
  Training period: 1986-1993  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, Bradley University, 1983  
  Title of research project: "Structural Investigations of Ovomucoid Third Domains by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods"  
       
       
  Andrzej M. Krezel    
  Training period: 1987-1991  
  Previous degree: M.S. in biology (with specialization in molecular biology), University of Warsaw, 1986  
  Title of research project: "Solution Structure Determination of Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques"  
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
       
       
  Arthur S. Edison    
  Training period: 1989-1993  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah  
  Title of research project: "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Peptides and Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy"  
       
       
  Young Kee Chae    
  Training period: 1988-1994  
  Previous degree: B.S. in physics  
  Title of research project: "Multinuclear NMR Studies of the Heterocyst Ferredoxin from Anabaena 7120"  
       
       
  Hua Zha    
  Training period: 1992-1994  
  Previoud degree: M.S. in physics, Montana State University  
  Title of research project: "Pulse Techniques in NMR Spectroscopy"  
       
       
  Charles G. Hoogstraten    
  Training period: 1990-1995  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, Michigan State University  
  Title of research project: "Removal of Errors due to Spin diffusion from NMR Distance Measurements and Protein Solution Structures: an Experimental Approach"  
       
       
  John B. Olson, Jr.    
  Training period: 1989-1995  
  Previous degree: B.S., College of Charleston, SC  
  Title of research project: "A General and Adaptable Method for the Automated Assignment of Protein Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra"  
       
       
  Ben Xia    
  Training period: 1991-1996  
  Previous degree: B.S. in physiology and Biophysics, Peking University, China  
  Title of research project: "Multinuclear NMR and Mutagenesis Studies of Human Ferredoxin"  
       
       
  Soheui Choe    
  Training period: 1991-1997  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  
  Title of research project: "Overexpression and Isotope Labeling of Ovomucoid Third Domains and their Investigation by NMR Spectroscopy"  
       
       
  Kenneth E. Prehoda    
  Training period: 1991-1997  
  Previous degree: B.A. in chemistry, California State University-Sacramento, California  
  Title of research projet: "Pressure Effects on Protein Structure and Dynamics"  
       
       
  Jane Caldwell    
  Training period: 1992-1997  
  Previous degree: B.S., Northwestern University  
  Title of research project: "Solution Structure of Brazzein"  
       
       
  Dagmar Truckses    
  Training period: 1991-1998  
  Previous degree: B.A. in biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, California  
  Title of research project: "Investigation of Mutants of Staphylococcal Nuclease with Altered Stability and Dynamic Properties"  
       
       
  Michelle DeRider    
  Training period: 1995-2001  
  Previous degree: B.A., Macalester College  
  Title of research project: "Conformational Analysis of Peptides and Proteins"  
       
       
  Steven Wilkens    
  Training period: 1996-2001  
  Previous degree:  
  Title of research project: "High-Level Quantum Mechanical Computations of Chemical Shifts in Iron-Sulfur Proteins"  
       
       
  Qin (Kate) Zhao    
  Training period: 1996-2001  
  Title of research project: "Solution NMR Studies of ATT, an Arabidopsis thaliana Trypsin/Chymotrypsin Inhibitor"  
       
       
  E. Sonay Elgin    
  Training period:    
  Title of research project: "Structure-Function Studies of the Human Chemokine Lymphotactin and its Equilibrium Between Two Highly Divergent Conformational States/em>"  
       
       
  Jikui Song    
  Training period: 1997-2002  
  Title of research project: "Structure-Function Investigations of Proteinase Inhibitors and Proteinases"  
       
       
  Heike Blad    
  Training period:    
  Title of research project: "Dynamics of Biological Marcormolecules as Probed by NMR"  
       
       
  I-Jin Lin    
  Training period: 2000-2005  
  Title of research project: "NMR spectroscopic studies of iron-sulfur proteins: rubredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum and Rieske protein from Thermus thermophilis"  
       
       

M.S. students

   
  Sum May Cheung    
  Training period: 1972-1974  
  Previous degree: B.Sc., Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1972  
  Title of research project: "On the Assignment of the Histidine NMR Peaks of Ribonuclease A by Hydrogen Exchange Techniques"  
    M.S. Thesis, Purdue Univerity, 1974  
       
       
  Xinjie Wu    
  Training period: 1981-1983  
  Previous degree: Diploma in chemistry (#(67)-578), Nanjing University, 1967  
  Title of research project: "One- and Two-Dimensional 470 MHz QH NMR Studies of Amino Acids, Water, Some Ammonium Salts, and Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain"  
    M.S. Thesis, Purdue University, 1983  
       
       
  Gilberto Ortiz-Polo    
  Training period: 1981-1985  
  Previous degree: B.S. in chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras  
  Title of research project: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain Variants"  
    M.S. Thesis, Purdue University, 1985  
       
       
  Bin Yuan    
  Training period: 1986-1988  
  Previous degrees: B.S. in chemistry, Zhejiang University, China  
    M.S. in biochemistry, Shanghai Biochemistry Institute, 1986  
  Title of research project: "NMR study of 15N Enriched Staphylococcal Nuclease"  
    M.S. Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
       
       
  Ross J. Reedstrom    
  Training period: 1987-1992  
  Previous degree: B.A., Yale University  
  Title of research project: "Protein overproduction and isolation for NMR and X-ray studies"  
       
       
  Marian Toscano    
  Training period: 1994-1995  
  Previous degree: B.S. in biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
  Title of research project: "Inherent Instability of a Synthetic Tetrameric Peptide"  
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995  
       
       
  Biao Sun    
  Training period: 1993-1995  
  Previous degree: M.S. in physics, University of Pittsburgh  
  Title of research project: "NMR Spectroscopy of [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxins"  
       
       
  Mike Birkeland    
  Training period:    
  Title of research project: