Zan Luthey-Schulten
Primary Research Area
- Biological Physics
Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair in Chemistry
(217) 333-3518
A544 Chemical and Life Sci Lab
Biography
Professor Schulten received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1969, a M.S. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975.
From 1975 to 1980 she was a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, and from 1980 to 1985 a Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich.
Research Statement
Research: Energy Landscapes of Biological Molecules Exploring the Evolution of Structure Function/Folding
- Evolution of Translation
- Origins of Life
- Physical Bioinformatics
- Prediction of Protein Structure and Function with QR profiles
- Docking with Steered Molecular Dynamics (SMD)
- VMD/Multiple Alignment: Evolutionary Analysis Tools
- Protein Folding: Hybrid Molecular Dynamics
Recent Courses Taught
- CHEM 444 - Physical Chemistry II
- CHEM 544 - Statistical Thermodynamics
- CHEM 545 - Physical Chemistry Seminar
- CHEM 546 - Advanced Statistical Mechanics
- CHEM 576 (BIOP 576) - Computational Chemical Biology