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Ruxandra Dima


Ruxandra Dima Assistant Professor, Chemistry

BS 1994 University of Bucharest, Romania
PhD 1999 Pennsylvania State University
Postdoctoral Associate 2000-2005 The Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland

Biography

Ruxandra Dima has an interdisciplinary training in theoretical and computational physics and physical chemistry. She is working in the areas of computational biophysical chemistry and biocheminformatics. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Bucharest, Romania in 1994, she studied at the Pennsylvania State University where she obtained her PhD in 1999. Her thesis was concerned with the determination of mean field free-energy potentials between amino acids in proteins. She then took a postdoctoral appointment (2000-2005) at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland where she worked on problems related to protein aggregation,allostery, RNA folding and single-molecule biophysics. In 2005 she took a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 2006.

Research: Computational biology and Bio/Cheminformatics

 My research is driven by an ongoing dialog between experiments/measurements and theoretical modeling. I use a combination of dynamics, structural analysis and bioinformatic methods to model the most salient features of a system, and use my results as a guidance for suggesting future experiments. 

Main directions of research: 

  • Computational modeling of protein aggregation
  • Development of bioinformatics methods to investigate functional properties of protein and RNA families
  • Development of coarse-grained methods to probe the energy landscape of complex biomolecules
  • Computational modeling of interactions between components of the cell 



Contact Information
1302 Crosley
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
phone: 513-556-3961
fax: 513-556-9239
http://www.che.uc.edu/dima


Last updated Thursday, October 12, 2006

  


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