
{"result":[{"lastName":"Levitt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4494&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Levitt","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt","researchInterest":"having pioneered, we (a) predict folding of a polypeptide and RNA chains into a unique native-structure, we (b) model protein structure using the well-established paradigms that similar protein sequences imply similar three-dimensional structures, and (c) we are focusing on mesoscale modeling of large macromolecular complexes such as RNA polymerase and the mammalian chaperonin."},{"lastName":"Saggu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Natural Sciences Cluster"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Natural Sciences Cluster","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16850&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Miguel Saggu","firstName":"Miguel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Miguel_Saggu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Doniach","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8062&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Sebastian Doniach","firstName":"Sebastian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sebastian_Doniach","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Jaschke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19400&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Jaschke","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Jaschke","researchInterest":"My research is on the design and construction of synthetic viral genomes to address a range of important questions in bioengineering and biotechnology. Building synthetic phage genomes has been hampered in the past by the extreme toxicity of these viruses to E. coli. I recently developed a method that solves this problem by using yeast as a platform to assemble phage genomes. Using this method I have decompressed the phiX174 genome and showed the virus is fully functional without gene overlaps."},{"lastName":"Jardetzky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4190&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Oleg Jardetzky","firstName":"Oleg","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Oleg_Jardetzky","researchInterest":"Structure, dynamics and function of proteins involved in transport and regulatory processes; high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance studies of conformational transitions and protein folding; study of the mechanism of action of the trp-repressor, ankyrin-domain proteins and the development of programs to calculate protein solution structure"},{"lastName":"McKay","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4099&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"David B. 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My doctoral research was in high-resolution spectroscopy of Rydberg states of polar diatomic molecules, time-domain THz spectroscopy, and chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy."},{"lastName":"O'keefe","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Natural Sciences Cluster"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Natural Sciences Cluster","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19161&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"B. 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My emphasis is on the molecular interactions of inhalational anesthetics and alcohol. I perform computational chemistry simulations on how these molecules bind to putative receptor sites. I am also interested in modeling receptor proteins in which chimeras cause loss or enhancement of anesthetic sensitivity."},{"lastName":"Harbury","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4433&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Pehr Harbury","firstName":"Pehr","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Pehr_Harbury","researchInterest":"Our lab engineers proteins and small-molecule drugs at atomic resolution through a combination of structural calculations and combinatorial library synthesis. Our goal is to elucidate predictive principles by which novel shapes and catalytic properties can be conferred accurately on designed polypeptides."},{"lastName":"Crowe","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23694&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Chris Crowe","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Crowe","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tilmans","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20199&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Nicolas Tilmans","firstName":"Nicolas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nicolas_Tilmans","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Feng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35054&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Liang Feng","firstName":"Liang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Liang_Feng","researchInterest":"We are interested in the structure, dynamics and function of eukaryotic transport proteins mediating ions and major nutrients crossing the membrane, the kinetics and regulation of transport processes, the catalytic mechanism of membrane embedded enzymes and the development of small molecule modulators based on the structure and function of membrane proteins."},{"lastName":"Frank","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8065&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Curtis Frank","firstName":"Curtis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Curtis_Frank","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Herschlag","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Chemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Chemical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4262&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Herschlag","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Herschlag","researchInterest":"Our research is aimed at understanding the chemical and physical behavior underlying biological macromolecules and systems, as these behaviors define the capabilities and limitations of biology. Toward this end we study folding and catalysis by RNA, as well as catalysis by protein enzymes."},{"lastName":"Zhao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29446&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Minglei Zhao","firstName":"Minglei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Minglei_Zhao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Boxer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8050&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Boxer","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Boxer","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Frimannsson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19052&amp;type=small&amp;showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Omar Frimannsson","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Frimannsson","researchInterest":"My main research projects are focused on the investigation of the therapeutic effect of a novel prodrug-enzyme anticancer therapy and the development of a magnetic resonance imaging system that would enable the assessment of tumor metastasis in vivo, starting from a single cell. 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