Chris Bystroff

Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Biology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America

Biography

  Chris Bystroff  is an professor of biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the university of California, San Diego, in 1988 and in 1985 completed his M.Sc. from UCSD, La Jolla, USA .He done his B.A. from Carleton College, Northfield MN in 1983.Before joining Rensselaer in 1999, he worked with Joseph Kraut, Robert  Fletterick , and David Baker and taught as a Fulbright fellow in Nicaragua. He has published numerous articles on protein crystallography and bioinformatics , especially regarding protein folding .

Research Intrest

 Biochemistry, Biosensor,Bioinformatics

List of Publications
Huang Y-M, Banerjee S, Crone DE, Buck PM, Schenkelberg CD, Pitman DJ & Bystroff C. (2015) Computationally designed biosensors based on leave-one-out green fluorescent protein. Biochemistry 54(40):6263-73.
Schenkelberg CD, Bystroff C. (2016) Protein backbone ensemble generation explores the local structural space of unseen natural homologs. Bioinformatics. 2016 Jan 18:btw001.
Shirke AN, Basore D, Holton S, Su A, Baugh E, Butterfoss GL, Makhatadze G, Bystroff C, Gross RA. (2016) Influence of surface charge, binding site residues and glycosylation on Thielavia terrestris cutinase biochemical characteristics. Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2016 Jan 13:1-2.

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