Yong Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ph.D. - Chemistry - Boston University (12/2008)
M.Eng. - Chemical Engineering - Nanjing University
B.S. - Chemistry - Nanjing University
Bio:
Yong will be joining the Voth group in December, 2008. He is currently working under his Ph.D. advisor Professor John E. Straub at Boston University.
Latest Publications:
- Y. Zhang and J. E. Straub, "Diversity of Solvent Dependent Energy Transfer Pathways in Heme Proteins", J. Phys. Chem. B, (In press).
- Y. Zhang and J. E. Straub, "Direct Evidence for Mode-specific Vibrational Energy Relaxation from Quantum Time-dependent Perturbation Theory. I. Five Coordinate Ferrous Iron Porphyrin Model", J. Chem. Phys. (submitted).
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B. M. Leu, Y. Zhang, L. Bu, J. E. Straub, J. Zhao, W. Sturhahn, E. E. Alp, and J. T. Sage, "Resilience of the Iron Environment in Heme Proteins", J. Biophysics, (In press).
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L. Pu, Q. Wang, Y. Zhang, Q. Miao, Y-s. Kim, Z. Zhang, "Architecture of Hydrates of Local Structure of Acetic Acid Aqueous Solution: Ab Initio Calculations and Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) Simulations on Hydrogen-bonding rings, Networks, and Intra-hydrate Protonation in Multi-hydrates of Acetic Acid Monomer", Adv. Quantum Chem., 54, 271-295 (2008). DOI:10.1016/S0065-3276(07)00021-4
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Y. Zhang, H. Fujisaki, and J. E. Straub, "Molecular Dynamics Study on the Solvent Dependent Heme Cooling Following Ligand Photolysis in carbonmonoxy Myoglobin", J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 3243-3250 (2007). DOI: 10.1021/jp065877k
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H. Fujisaki, Y. Zhang, and J. E. Straub, "Time-dependent Perturbation Theory for Vibrational Energy Relaxation and Dephasing in Peptides and Proteins", J. Chem. Phys., 124, 144910 (2006). DOI:10.1063/1.2191038
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M. E. Cremeens, H. Fujisaki, Y. Zhang, J. Zimmermann, L. B. Sagle, S. Matsuda, Ph. E. Dawson, J. E. Straub, and F. E. Romesberg, "Efforts Toward Developing Direct Probes of Protein Dynamics", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 6028-6029 (2006). DOI: 10.1021/ja061328g