Ron Hills
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Biophysics - The Scripps Research Institute
B.S. Summa Cum Laude, Biochemistry with Honors
- Florida
State University
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Bio:
Ron joined the Voth group in September 2008. He obtained his B.S. degree at Florida State University where his interest in biophysics first developed performing research in EPR spectroscopy and electronic structure calculation. Ron earned his Ph.D. at the Scripps Research Institute studying the molecular simulation of protein folding and aggregation. His work in the Voth group involves the development and application of a transferable multiscale coarse-grained model for protein folding and the study of functional dynamics in large biological assemblies.
Latest Publications:
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Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III, "Subdomain Competition, Cooperativity and Topological Frustration in the Folding of CheY," J. Mol. Biol. 382:485-95 (2008).
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Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III, "Coevolution of Function and the Folding Landscape: Correlation with Density of Native Contacts",
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Hills Jr., R.D. and C.L. Brooks III, "Hydrophobic Cooperativity as a Mechanism for Amyloid Nucleation," J. Mol. Biol. 368:894-901 (2007).
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Brown, L.J., K.L. Sale, R.D. Hills Jr., C. Rouviere, L. Song, X. Zhang and P.G. Fajer, "Structure of the Inhibitory Region of Troponin by Site Directed Spin Labeling Electron Paramagnetic Resonance," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 99:12765-70 (2002).