Eduardo Roberto Cruz-Chú

Contact information:
email: chucruz@ks.uiuc.edu
phone:(217)-244-3667
fax:(217) 244-6078
mailing address:3109 Beckman Institute
405 N. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801

Home Department:
Center for Biophysics & Computational Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
156 Davenport Hall, MC-147
607 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Education:

B.Sc. in Chemistry (1999) and Applied Mathematics (2000) at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima-Perú.

Research Interest

transport droplet pet
Transport properties of
silica nanopores		 Parametrization of amorphous silica PET polymer nanopore
(PET=polyethylene terephthalate)

Publications

Publications Database

Water-silica force field for simulating nanodevices. Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Klaus Schulten. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110:21497-21508, 2006.

The role of molecular modeling in bionanotechnology. Deyu Lu, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Amy Y. Shih, Eduardo Cruz-Chu, Peter L. Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, and Klaus Schulten. Physical Biology, 3:S40-S53, 2006.

Computer modeling in biotechnology, a partner in development. Aleksei Aksimentiev, Robert Brunner, Jordi Cohen, Jeffrey Comer, Eduardo Cruz-Chu, David Hardy, Aruna Rajan, Amy Shih, Grigori Sigalov, Ying Yin, and Klaus Schulten. In Protocols in Nanostructure Design, Methods in Molecular Biology, pp. 181-234. Humana Press, 2008.

Before joining TCBG:

Dynamic influences on a high-affinity, high-specificity interaction involving the C-terminal SH3 domain of p67phox. Dutta K, Shi HH, Cruz-Chu ER, Kami K and Ghose R. Biochemistry, 43:8094-8106, 2004.

Reversal of negative charges on the surface of Escherichia coli thioredoxin: pockets versus protrusions. Mancusso R, Cruz E, Cataldi M, Mendoza C, Fuchs J, Wang H, Yang X, Tasayco ML. Biochemistry , 43:3835-3843, 2004.
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