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Ronald M. Levy

Laura Carnell Professor
Theory/Computation
Office: SERC 718
Phone: 215-204-0607
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Biography

1976-1980

1976

1970

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University

Ph.D. Harvard University

B.S. Reed College

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. NIH Research Career Development Award. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship. AAAS Fellow

Interests

My research interests are focused on the development and application of computational methods for studying the structure, function, folding, and dynamics of proteins.  We work on problems involving the interplay between computational models in structural biology and experiments at different levels of resolution and different time scales from femtoseconds to seconds or longer.  Using computational statistical mechanics as a framework, we study solvation effects in chemistry and biophysics, and develop methods and effective potentials for simulating these systems.  Our recent work is focused on the development of novel free energy methods for modeling protein-ligand binding, allosteric conformational changes of proteins, and studying their energy and evolutionary landscapes.

Select Publications

Molecular Dynamics Free Energy Simulations Reveal the Mechanism for the Antiviral Resistance of the M66I {HIV}-1 Capsid Mutation.
Sun, Qinfang, Ronald M. Levy, Karen A. Kirby, Zhengqiang Wang, Stefan G. Sarafianos, and Nanjie Deng (2021). Viruses, 13(5), 920. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13050920.

Protein Loop Conformational Free Energy Changes via an Alchemical Path without Reaction Coordinates. 
Arasteh, Shima, Bin W. Zhang, and Ronald M. Levy (2021). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Web publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00778.

​Cavity Particle in Aqueous Solution with a Hydrophobic Solute: Structure, Energetics, and Functionals.
Zhang, Bin W., Nobuyuki Matubayasi, and Ronald M. Levy (2020).  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, X. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02721.

Mi3-{GPU}: {MCMC}-based inverse Ising inference on {GPUs} for protein covariation analysis.
Haldane, Allan and Ronald M. Levy (2020).  Computer Physics Communications, X, 107312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107312.
 
Insights into the energy landscapes of chromosome organization proteins from coevolutionary sequence variation and structural modeling.
Levy, Ronald M. (2020).  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(5), 201921727. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921727117. PMCID: PMC7007567.
 
Epistasis and entrenchment of drug resistance in {HIV}-1 subtype B.
Biswas, Avik, Allan Haldane, Eddy Arnold, and Ronald M Levy (2019).  {eLife}, 8. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.50524. PMCID: PMC6783267.

The Relationship Between Solvation Thermodynamics from IST and DFT Perspectives.
Levy, Ronald M., Di Cui, Bin W. Zhang, and Nobuyuki Matubayasi. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(15), 3825-3841 (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b12889. 

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