Chris MacDermaid

Chris MacDermaid
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University
United States of America

Biography

Chris MacDermaid is Assistant Professor of Research at Institute for Computational Molecular Science,Department of Chemistry,Temple University. His major area of teaching are Soft Matter Theory and Computation. His research focous on computational protein design, structural bioinformatics and homology modeling, large-scale simulation and modeling of biomolecular systems.

Research Intrest

His research interests include, but are not limited to: computational protein design, structural bioinformatics, large-scale simulation and modeling of biomolecular systems, developing scientific computational tools and software and education in scientific and high performance computing.

List of Publications
Tanaka N, Dutrow EV, Miyadera K, Delemotte L, MacDermaid CM, et al. (2015) Canine CNGA3 gene mutations provide novel insights into human achromatopsia-associated channelopathies and treatment. PloS one 10:e0138943.
MacDermaid CM, Kashyap HK, DeVane RH, Shinoda W, Klauda JB, et al. (2015) Molecular dynamics simulations of cholesterol-rich membranes using a coarse-grained force field for cyclic alkanes. The Journal of chemical physics 143:12B625_1.
Jishkariani D, MacDermaid CM, Timsina YN, Grama S, Gillani SS, et al. (2017) Self-interrupted synthesis of sterically hindered aliphatic polyamide dendrimers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7:201700922.

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