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Overview

Adam Liwo is affiliated with the University of Gdańsk in Poland and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in materials science. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology and materials chemistry, with interests also spanning spectroscopy, atomic and molecular physics, and ecology.

Their main areas of investigation include:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Frequently publishing in specialized venues, Adam Liwo has contributed multiple articles to:

  • Journal of Computational Chemistry
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Biomolecules

Their recent publications include:

  • "Theory and Practice of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics of Biologically Important Systems," 2021, Biomolecules
  • "Pragmatic Coarse-Graining of Proteins: Models and Applications," 2023, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • "Impact of AlphaFold on structure prediction of protein complexes: The CASP15-CAPRI experiment," 2023, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • "Protein folds vs. protein folding: Differing questions, different challenges," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Prediction of protein assemblies, the next frontier: The CASP14-CAPRI experiment," 2021, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

Adam Liwo has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Cezary Czaplewski
  • Adam K. Sieradzan
  • Emilia A. Lubecka
  • Agnieszka G. Lipska
  • Artur Giełdoń

Beyond journal articles, they have contributed to the book "Innovation in Physical Activity and Sport," published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Protein-Folding Dynamics: Overview of Molecular Simulation Techniques

    Harold A. Scheraga;Mey Khalili;Adam Liwo

  • Principal Component Analysis for Protein Folding Dynamics

    Gia G. Maisuradze;Adam Liwo;Harold A. Scheraga

  • A united-residue force field for off-lattice protein-structure simulations. I. Functional forms and parameters of long-range side-chain interaction potentials from protein crystal data

    Adam Liwo;Adam Liwo;Stanislaw Oldziej;Matthew R. Pincus;Ryszard J. Wawak

  • Ab initio simulations of protein-folding pathways by molecular dynamics with the united-residue model of polypeptide chains.

    Adam Liwo;Mey Khalili;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Relation between free energy landscapes of proteins and dynamics.

    Gia G. Maisuradze;Adam Liwo;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Cumulant-based expressions for the multibody terms for the correlation between local and electrostatic interactions in the united-residue force field

    Adam Liwo;Cezary Czaplewski;Jarosław Pillardy;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Modification and optimization of the united-residue (UNRES) potential energy function for canonical simulations. I. Temperature dependence of the effective energy function and tests of the optimization method with single training proteins.

    Adam Liwo;Mey Khalili;Cezary Czaplewski;Sebastian Kalinowski

  • A united‐residue force field for off‐lattice protein‐structure simulations. II. Parameterization of short‐range interactions and determination of weights of energy terms by Z‐score optimization

    Adam Liwo;Adam Liwo;Matthew R. Pincus;Ryszard J. Wawak;Shelly Rackovsky

  • Protein structure prediction by global optimization of a potential energy function

    Adam Liwo;Jooyoung Lee;Daniel R. Ripoll;Jaroslaw Pillardy

  • United-residue force field for off-lattice protein-structure simulations: III. Origin of backbone hydrogen-bonding cooperativity in united-residue potentials

    Adam Liwo;Adam Liwo;Adam Liwo;Rajmund Kazmierkiewicz;Cezary Czaplewski;Malgorzata Groth

  • Energy-based de novo protein folding by conformational space annealing and an off-lattice united-residue force field: Application to the 10-55 fragment of staphylococcal protein A and to apo calbindin D9K

    Jooyoung Lee;Adam Liwo;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Computational techniques for efficient conformational sampling of proteins.

    Adam Liwo;Cezary Czaplewski;Stanisław Ołdziej;Stanisław Ołdziej;Harold A Scheraga

  • Recent improvements in prediction of protein structure by global optimization of a potential energy function.

    Jarosław Pillardy;Cezary Czaplewski;Adam Liwo;Jooyoung Lee

  • Polyproline II conformation is one of many local conformational states and is not an overall conformation of unfolded peptides and proteins

    Joanna Makowska;Sylwia Rodziewicz-Motowidło;Katarzyna Bagińska;Jorge A. Vila

  • Physics-based protein-structure prediction using a hierarchical protocol based on the UNRES force field: assessment in two blind tests.

    S. Ołdziej;C. Czaplewski;A. Liwo;M. Chinchio

  • Molecular Dynamics with the United-Residue Model of Polypeptide Chains. II. Langevin and Berendsen-Bath Dynamics and Tests on Model α-Helical Systems

    Mey Khalili;Adam Liwo;and Anna Jagielska;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Prediction of protein conformation on the basis of a search for compact structures: Test on avian pancreatic polypeptide

    A. Liwo;M. R. Pincus;R. J. Wawak;S. Rackovsky

  • A unified coarse-grained model of biological macromolecules based on mean-field multipole–multipole interactions

    Adam Liwo;Maciej Baranowski;Cezary Czaplewski;Ewa Gołaś;Ewa Gołaś

  • A general method for the determination of the stoichiometry of unknown species in multicomponent systems from physicochemical measurements

    Jaroslaw Kostrowicki;Adam Liwo

  • A method for optimizing potential-energy functions by a hierarchical design of the potential-energy landscape: application to the UNRES force field.

    Adam Liwo;Piotr Arłukowicz;Cezary Czaplewski;Stanisław Ołdziej

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold A. Scheraga
Harold A. Scheraga Cornell University
Paul A. Janmey
Paul A. Janmey University of Pennsylvania
Salvador Ventura
Salvador Ventura Autonomous University of Barcelona
Juri Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber Technical University of Berlin
Jianlin Cheng
Jianlin Cheng University of Missouri
Jerrold Meinwald
Jerrold Meinwald Cornell University
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington
Andras Fiser
Andras Fiser Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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