Rezvan Shahoei
Home Department: Physics
Email Address: shahoei2@illinois.edu
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
- M.S. in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, 2010
- B.S. in Physics, University of Tehran, 2008
Research
- Molecular Modeling and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems
- Enhanced Sampling Techniques
- Free Energy Calculations
- Protein-Small Molecule Interactions
- Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
- Membrane Biophysics
- Statistical Mechanics
Publications
- R. Shahoei and E. Tajkhorshid (2020) Menthol binding to the human α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, facilitated by its strong partitioning in membrane. J. Phys. Chem. B, 124(10): 1866-1880
- J. Yu, H. Zhu, R. Lape, T. Greiner, R. Shahoei, Y. Wang, J. Du, W. Lü, E. Tajkhorshid, L. Sivilotti, and E. Gouaux (2019) Mechanism of gating and partial agonist action in the glycine receptor. Available on bioRχiv
- B. J. Henderson, S. Grant, B. W. Chu, R. Shahoei, S. M. Huard, S. S. M. Saladi, E. Tajkhorshid, D. A. Dougherty, H. A. Lester (2018) Menthol stereoisomers exhibit different effects on α4β2 nAChR upregulation and dopamine neuron spontaneous firing. eNeuro.0465-18.2018
- A. Chakravarti, K. Selvadurai, R. Shahoei, H. Lee, S. Fatma, E. Tajkhorshid, and R. Huang (2018) Reconstitution and substrate specificity of the antiviral radical SAM enzyme viperin. J. Biol. Chem., 293(36): 14122-14133
- S. Maji, R. Shahoei, K. Schulten, and J. Frank (2017) Quantitative characterization of domain motions in molecular machines. J. Phys. Chem. B, 121(15): 3747-3756
