Thesis Title: Allostery and Rigidity

Graduate Dept: Physics

Degree Sought: Masters of Science

Research Advisor: Dr. AJ Rader

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Teacher Partner: Stacey Matlock

Partner School: SouthPort High School

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Research Goal

Description of Your Research

Using Rigidity or Rigid Cluster Decompostion, a coarse grained model of proteins, to understand allostery. Allostery is when a regulatory molecule binds to a protein and changes the affinity of the main binding site(s) of the protein.

Examples Of How My Research Is Integrated Into My GK-12 Experience

I am currently working on using Folding@Home as a method of bringing some of the concepts of protein folding and dynamics into my classroom, yet haven't found a way to really have the classroom use Rigidity.

Currently, My GK-12 Classroom Is Investigating

1-D collisions