Editorial Board for section 'Biomolecular Crystals'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
Interests: protein crystals; biocrystals; crystal growth; protein crystallography; crystal chemistry; biomineralization; biomimetics; biological macromolecules
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1. Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, viale Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Italy
2. Department of Structural and Computational Biology, University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Interests: structural biology; protein crystallography; protein crystals; protein engineering

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Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, IACT, (CSIC-UGR), Av. de las Palmeras, 4, Armilla, 18100 Granada, Spain
Interests: protein crystallization: nucleation, growth and crystals quality; protein crystallography; protein crystals biocompostites and properties; enzymatic crystals (CLEC)
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Laboratory of Crystallographic Studies, Analusian Institute of Earth Science (CSIC), University of Granada, Armilla, Spain
Interests: nanocrystallization; bio-inspired crystallization; biomimetic scaffolds; biomaterials
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Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wólczańska 219, 93-005 Łódź, Poland
Interests: biogenic crystals; crystal growth from solutions; crystal morphology; struvite; carbonate apatite; infectious urinary stones
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Medicine (GWU) and Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America(CUA), DCVA Medical Center, Research Service (151), 50 Irving Street, NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA
Interests: Ca2+ signaling; Calcium crystals; calcification; cell injury and cell death

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Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, Via Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: protein crystallography; phasing methods; modulated enhanced diffraction; multivariate analysis
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Dr. Jacques-Philippe Colletier

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Institut de Biologie Structurale, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Heres, France
Interests: protein crystallography; X-ray crystallography
Department of Periodontics, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, 3302 Gaston Ave, Dallas, TX 75246, USA
Interests: enamel development and evolution; periodontal development and tissue engineering; epigenetics and chromatin
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Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria
Interests: biological crystallography; structural biology of actin-based cytoskeleton; (metallo)proteins; X-ray diffraction and small-angle X-ray scattering; radiation damage; soft X-rays in macromolecular crystallography
University of Warsaw Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: quantum crystallography; charge density; intermolecular interactions; chemical crystallography; structural biology

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Department of Chemistry "G Ciamician", University of Bologna, Via Selmi, 2-40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: biomolecular crystals; protein crystallization methods; biocrystallography; protein structure and function; biomineral and biomineralization processes

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Department of Drug Design, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: structural biology; biocrystallogenesis; infectious diseases; drug design; biophysics
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Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: membrane proteins; protein crystallography; protein crystallization
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Laboratory of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: biophysics; phase transitions
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Department of Molecular Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
Interests: enzymes; structures; esterase; deubiquitinase; noncanonical DNA
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Prof. Dr. Dominique Maes
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Structural Biology Brussels, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel- VUB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: protein crystallization: nucleation and growth; the effect of impurities and flow on crystallization
Prof. Dr. Nico Antoon Jaques Maria Sommerdijk
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Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Interests: biochemistry and structure of collagen; specifically on the mechanisms of assembly, crosslinking and mineralization; novel therapies in biomedicine
Prof. Dr. Marc Messerschmidt
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CXLS X-ray Instrument, Arizona State University, Biodesign Institute and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ 85287-7401, USA
Interests: time-resolved diffraction, high resolution structures, X-ray instrumentation, experimental charge density, synchrotron and X-ray lasers, ultrafast timing

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5419, USA
Interests: RNA editing; RNA structure; SAD phasing methods; direct methods phasing; crystal size optimization; molecular modeling
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Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST), Via G. Pascoli 70/3, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: protein crystallography; small molecule crystallography; protein engineering; structure-based drug design; solid state chemistry; supra-molecular chemistry; structural biology; biomaterials; crystallization techniques
Prof. Dr. Zoran Radić
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Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, San Diego, USA
Interests: cholinesterase (ChE) structure and activity

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Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Interests: structural virology; protein design; vaccine design; X-ray crystallography; cryo-EM; bioinformatics

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy
Interests: solid-state structure–properties relationship of different classes of compounds; XRPD; polymorphism and pseudopolymorphism; API
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Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC-ARN-CNRS), Team "tRNA biology and pathogenicity", 15 rue René Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
Interests: crystallogenesis; crystallization methods; microfluidics; biocrystallography; integrative structural biology; biophysics; protein : RNA interactions, tRNA biology, protein synthesis
Dr. Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi
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Departments of Bioresource and Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0C3, Canada
Interests: advanced multifunctional materials and structures; multiphysics and multiscale simulation of multiferroic cellular solids, smart and biocomposites, graded biological materials, and advanced metamaterials using theoretical/computational and experimental methodologies

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Institute of Crystallography- CNR, Via G. Amendola, 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: protein crystallography; small and wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS); BioSAXS; biological molecules; rare diseases; phasing algorithm; nano- and bio-materials; X-ray imaging
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Colorado State University, 1370 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Interests: protein crystals; biocrystals; DNA crystals; host-guest crystallography; crystal engineering; co-crystals; designed crystals; biological macromolecules; scaffold-assisted crystallography
Physics Department, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy
Interests: free electron lasers; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; protein crystallography; coherent imaging; density functional theory; liquid jet sample delivery
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Synchrotron Light Source -II, Upton, NY 11973, USA
Interests: high energy; radiation effects; crystallogenesis; imaging
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