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  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Biophysics and Computational Biology

Overview

Ivet Bahar is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The focus areas emphasize molecular biology, infectious diseases, materials chemistry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics, including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling

Recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests. Notable papers include:

  • "Redox lipid reprogramming commands susceptibility of macrophages and microglia to ferroptotic death," 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Mapping transcriptomic vector fields of single cells," 2022, Cell
  • "Superantigenic character of an insert unique to SARS-CoV-2 spike supported by skewed TCR repertoire in patients with hyperinflammation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Phospholipase iPLA2β averts ferroptosis by eliminating a redox lipid death signal," 2021, Nature Chemical Biology
  • "ProDy 2.0: increased scale and scope after 10 years of protein dynamics modelling with Python," 2021, Bioinformatics

Frequent collaborators over their career include Mary Hongying Cheng with 44 joint publications, Anupam Banerjee (24), James Krieger (23), Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska (19), and Moshe Arditi (16).

The scientist publishes predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 26 publications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 8, Biophysical Journal with 7, Current Opinion in Structural Biology with 6, and SSRN Electronic Journal with 6 publications.

Recognitions include membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2020 and in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). They are also recognized by The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi in the field of Biophysics and Computational Biology.

Best Publications

  • Oxidized arachidonic and adrenic PEs navigate cells to ferroptosis

    Valerian E Kagan;Gaowei Mao;Feng Qu;Jose Pedro Friedmann Angeli

  • Anisotropy of Fluctuation Dynamics of Proteins with an Elastic Network Model

    A.R. Atilgan;S.R. Durell;R.L. Jernigan;M.C. Demirel

  • Direct evaluation of thermal fluctuations in proteins using a single-parameter harmonic potential

    Ivet Bahar;Ali Rana Atilgan;Burak Erman

  • ProDy: protein dynamics inferred from theory and experiments.

    Ahmet Bakan;Lidio M. Meireles;Ivet Bahar

  • Cardiolipin externalization to the outer mitochondrial membrane acts as an elimination signal for mitophagy in neuronal cells

    Charleen T. Chu;Jing Ji;Ruben K. Dagda;Jian Fei Jiang

  • Gaussian Dynamics of Folded Proteins

    Turkan Haliloglu;Ivet Bahar;Burak Erman

  • PEBP1 Wardens Ferroptosis by Enabling Lipoxygenase Generation of Lipid Death Signals

    Sally E. Wenzel;Yulia Y. Tyurina;Jinming Zhao;Claudette M. St. Croix

  • Coarse-grained normal mode analysis in structural biology

    Ivet Bahar;AJ Rader

  • Global Dynamics of Proteins: Bridging Between Structure and Function

    Ivet Bahar;Timothy R. Lezon;Lee-Wei Yang;Eran Eyal

  • Mapping Transcriptomic Vector Fields of Single Cells

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  • Normal Mode Analysis of Biomolecular Structures: Functional Mechanisms of Membrane Proteins

    Ivet Bahar;Timothy R. Lezon;Ahmet Bakan;Indira H. Shrivastava

  • Redox lipid reprogramming commands susceptibility of macrophages and microglia to ferroptotic death.

    Alexandr A Kapralov;Qin Yang;Haider H Dar;Yulia Y Tyurina

  • Vibrational dynamics of folded proteins: Significance of slow and fast motions in relation to function and stability

    Ivet Bahar;Ali Rana Atilgan;Melik C. Demirel;Burak Erman

  • Structural changes involved in protein binding correlate with intrinsic motions of proteins in the unbound state

    Dror Tobi;Ivet Bahar

  • Bistability in apoptosis: roles of bax, bcl-2, and mitochondrial permeability transition pores.

    E.Z. Bagci;Y. Vodovotz;T.R. Billiar;G.B. Ermentrout

  • Normal mode analysis : theory and applications to biological and chemical systems

    Qiang Cui;Ivet Bahar

  • Anisotropic network model: systematic evaluation and a new web interface

    Eran Eyal;Lee-Wei Yang;Ivet Bahar

  • Dynamics of proteins predicted by molecular dynamics simulations and analytical approaches: application to alpha-amylase inhibitor.

    Pemra Doruker;Ali Rana Atilgan;Ivet Bahar

  • Allostery in Its Many Disguises: From Theory to Applications

    Shoshana J. Wodak;Emanuele Paci;Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Nikolay V. Dokholyan;Igor N. Berezovsky

  • Intrinsic dynamics of enzymes in the unbound state and relation to allosteric regulation

    Ivet Bahar;Chakra Chennubhotla;Dror Tobi

  • Inter-residue potentials in globular proteins and the dominance of highly specific hydrophilic interactions at close separation

    I. Bahar;I. Bahar;R.L. Jernigan

  • Structure-derived potentials and protein simulations

    Robert L Jernigan;Ivet Bahar

Frequent Co-Authors

Burak Erman
Burak Erman Koç University
Robert L. Jernigan
Robert L. Jernigan Iowa State University
Hülya Bayır
Hülya Bayır University of Pittsburgh
Valerian E. Kagan
Valerian E. Kagan University of Pittsburgh
Bing Liu
Bing Liu University of Illinois at Chicago
Moshe Arditi
Moshe Arditi Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
James E. Mark
James E. Mark University of Cincinnati
Yulia Y. Tyurina
Yulia Y. Tyurina University of Pittsburgh
Vladimir A. Tyurin
Vladimir A. Tyurin University of Pittsburgh
Ozlem Keskin
Ozlem Keskin Koç University

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