Dr. Jessica Swanson
Research Assistant Professor
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry
UCSD McCammon Group - 2006
B.S. Biochemistry
UCSD - 2000
Bio:
Jessica joined the Voth group in August of 2006. Her graduate work focused on improving free energy and continuum solvation calculations and was conducted under the supervision of Dr. J. Andrew McCammon at the University of California San Diego. Her work in the Voth group aims to improve and extend the Multi-State Empirical Valence Bond methodology to study complex biomolecular charge transport processes.
Latest Publications:
- Izvekov, S.*, Swanson, J. M. J.*, and Voth, G. A., "Coarse-graining in Interaction Space," (*both authors contributed equally to this work) (in press).
- Swanson, J. M. J., Maupin, C. M., Chen, H, Petersen, M. K., Xu, J., Wu, Y., and Voth, G. A., "Proton Solvation and Transport in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems: Insights from Computer Simulations," J. Phys. Chem. B. - Feature Article and Cover, 111, 17 (2007).
- Swanson J. M. J., Wagoner, J. A., Baker, N. A, McCammon, J. A., "Optimizing Poisson dielectric boundaries: Lessons learned with atom-centered dielectric functions," J. Chem. Theory and Computation, 3(1), 170-183 (2007).
- Dzubiella, J., Swanson, J. M. J., and McCammon, J. A., "Coupling nonpolar and polar solvation free energies in implicit solvent models," J. Chem. Phys., 124, 084905 (2006).
- Dzubiella, J., Swanson, J. M. J., and McCammon, J. A., "Coupling hydrophobicity, dispersion, and electrostatics in continuum solvent models," Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 087802 (2006).
- Bui, J. M., Chang, C.E., Jain, T., Swanson, J. M. J, and McCammon, J. A., " The Entropic Cost of Protein-Protein Association: A Case Study on Acetylcholinesterase Binding to Fasciculin-2 Minh, D.D.L.," Biophys. J. 89, L25-L27 (2005).
- Swanson, J.M.J., Mongan, J., and McCammon, J. A., "Limitations of Atom-Centered Dielectric Functions in Implicit Solvent Models," J. Phys. Chem. B, 109(31), 14769-14772 (2005).
- Swanson, J. M. J., Adcock, S. A., and McCamon, J. A., "Optimized radii for Poisson-Boltzmann calculations with the AMBER force field," J. Chem. Theory Comput., 1(3), 484-493 (2005).
- Swanson J. M. J., Henchman, R. H., McCammon, J. A., "Revisiting Free Energy Calculations: A Theoretical Connection to MM/PBSA and Direct Calculation of the Association Free Energy," Biophys. J., 86, 67-74 (2004).
- Zheng, X., Medvedev, D. M., Swanson, J., and Stuchebrukhov, A. A., "Computer Simulation of Water in Cytochrome C Oxidase," Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Bioenergetics, 1557, 99-107 (2003).