Donghan Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine & James Graham Brown Chair of Structural Biology
One of the essential keystones for the existence of life rests in the intricate relationship between biomolecular function, structure, and their dynamics. The biomolecular machines engaging in these indispensable processes possess internal structural dynamics on a wide range of timescales. It is the relationship or connection between the timescales of these fundamental biophysical phenomena and the time-scales of biomolecular dynamics that the technique of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is uniquely equipped to explore. NMR is a powerful technique whose observables are time-scale sensitive. Given that the sample is tractable for NMR studies, the system can be explored in solution without chemical modification while maintaining atomic resolution. The focus of our group is to investigate connections between function, structure, and dynamics of biomolecules. Our interests include:
• Molecular recognition between biomolecules such as protein-protein, protein-DNA, protein-cabohydrate, protein-ligands.
• Design NMR experiments and development of associated theory.
