Prof. Arthur Palmer III, Columbia University
Host: Dr. Michael Summers
"Protein Dynamics in Molecular Recognition and Enzyme Mechanism: E-cadherin and AlkB"
Arthur Palmer uses NMR spectroscopy to elucidate the coupling between
conformational dynamical properties and biological functions of
proteins. His research extends from development of novel methods in NMR
spectroscopy, computational and theoretical analyses of protein
dynamics, and applications to protein folding, molecular recognition,
and catalysis.
Palmer co-authored of the textbook Protein NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Practice (Academic Press, 1996 and 2007), now the standard text for the study of biological NMR spectroscopy at the graduate and postdoctoral level. His laboratory also freely provides software for analyzing NMR spin relaxation data, including the widely used “modelfree” program.