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Jeffery G. Saven is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology and Biomaterials as sub-disciplines. The scientist's work integrates topics such as Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, and Silk-based biomaterials and applications.

Saven's publication record includes a range of recent papers that highlight diverse areas of peptide design, materials chemistry, and protein engineering. Some of the notable papers are:

  • Peptide Design and Self-assembly into Targeted Nanostructure and Functional Materials (2021) published in Chemical Reviews
  • Nanofibers Produced by Electrospinning of Ultrarigid Polymer Rods Made from Designed Peptide Bundlemers (2021) published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Computational Design of Homotetrameric Peptide Bundle Variants Spanning a Wide Range of Charge States (2022) published in Biomacromolecules
  • Design of a Superpositively Charged Enzyme: Human Carbonic Anhydrase II Variant with Ferritin Encapsulation and Immobilization (2021) published in Biochemistry
  • Colloid-like solution behavior of computationally designed coiled coil bundlemers (2021) published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Saven include:

  • Darrin J. Pochan
  • Christopher J. Kloxin
  • Dai-Bei Yang
  • Tianren Zhang
  • Kristi L. Kiick

Saven's publications are often featured in prominent scientific journals, including:

  • Biomacromolecules
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry B
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist's primary research topics encompass:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Silk-based biomaterials and applications
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization

Best Publications

  • Solvophobically Driven Folding of Nonbiological Oligomers

    James C. Nelson;Jeffery G. Saven;Jeffrey S. Moore;Peter G. Wolynes

  • Cooperative Conformational Transitions in Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers: Chain-Length Dependence

    Ryan B. Prince;Jeffery G. Saven;Peter G. Wolynes;Jeffrey S. Moore

  • Peptide Design and Self-assembly into Targeted Nanostructure and Functional Materials.

    Nairiti J Sinha;Matthew G Langenstein;Darrin J Pochan;Christopher J Kloxin

  • Computational de novo design and characterization of a four-helix bundle protein that selectively binds a nonbiological cofactor.

    Frank V. Cochran;Sophia P. Wu;Wei Wang;Vikas Nanda

  • Helical wrapping of single-walled carbon nanotubes by water soluble poly(p-phenyleneethynylene).

    Youn K. Kang;One Sun Lee;Pravas Deria;Sang Hoon Kim

  • Computational design of a protein crystal

    Christopher J. Lanci;Christopher M. MacDermaid;Seung-gu Kang;Rudresh Acharya

  • Statistical theory for protein combinatorial libraries. Packing interactions, backbone flexibility, and the sequence variability of a main-chain structure.

    Hidetoshi Kono;Jeffery G. Saven

  • A molecular theory of the line shape : inhomogeneous and homogeneous electronic spectra of dilute chromophores in nonpolar fluids

    J. G. Saven;J. L. Skinner

  • Molecular theory of electronic spectroscopy in nonpolar fluids: Ultrafast solvation dynamics and absorption and emission line shapes

    M. D. Stephens;J. G. Saven;J. L. Skinner

  • Computational Design and Characterization of a Monomeric Helical Dinuclear Metalloprotein

    Jennifer R. Calhoun;Hidetoshi Kono;Hidetoshi Kono;Steven Lahr;Wei Wang

  • Theoretical and computational protein design.

    Ilan Samish;Christopher M. MacDermaid;Jose Manuel Perez-Aguilar;Jeffery G. Saven

  • Computational design of water-soluble analogues of the potassium channel KcsA.

    Avram Michael Slovic;Hidetoshi Kono;James D Lear;Jeffery G. Saven

  • Highly Tunable Photoluminescent Properties of Amphiphilic Conjugated Block Copolymers

    Sang-Jae Park;Seung-Gu Kang;Michael Fryd;Jeffery G. Saven

  • De novo design of a redox-active minimal rubredoxin mimic.

    Vikas Nanda;Michael M. Rosenblatt;Artur Osyczka;Hidetoshi Kono

  • Scalable Production of Highly Sensitive Nanosensors Based on Graphene Functionalized with a Designed G Protein-Coupled Receptor

    Mitchell B. Lerner;Mitchell B. Lerner;Felipe Matsunaga;Gang Hee Han;Sung Ju Hong;Sung Ju Hong

  • Directing noble metal ion chemistry within a designed ferritin protein.

    Christopher A Butts;Joe Swift;Seung-Gu Kang;Luigi Di Costanzo

  • Statistical and molecular dynamics studies of buried waters in globular proteins

    Sheldon Park;Jeffery G. Saven

  • Advances in computational protein design.

    Sheldon Park;Xi Yang;Jeffery G Saven

  • Polymers with controlled assembly and rigidity made with click-functional peptide bundles

    Dongdong Wu;Nairiti Sinha;Jeeyoung Lee;Bryan P. Sutherland

  • Ultrafast folding of a computationally designed Trp-cage mutant: Trp2-cage.

    Michelle R. Bunagan;Xi Yang;Jeffery G. Saven;Feng Gai

  • A focused antibody library for selecting scFvs expressed at high levels in the cytoplasm.

    Pascal Philibert;Audrey Stoessel;Wei Wang;Annie-Paule Sibler

  • Scalable Production of Highly-Sensitive Nanosensors Based on Graphene Functionalized with a Designed G Protein-Coupled Receptor

    Mitchell B. Lerner;Mitchell B. Lerner;Felipe Matsunaga;Gang Hee Han;Sung Ju Hong;Sung Ju Hong

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrin J. Pochan
Darrin J. Pochan University of Delaware
William F. DeGrado
William F. DeGrado University of California, San Francisco
Kristi L. Kiick
Kristi L. Kiick University of Delaware
Michael J. Therien
Michael J. Therien Duke University
Ivan J. Dmochowski
Ivan J. Dmochowski University of Pennsylvania
Wei Wang
Wei Wang University of California, San Diego
Peter G. Wolynes
Peter G. Wolynes Rice University
Feng Gai
Feng Gai University of Pennsylvania
Gang Hee Han
Gang Hee Han Incheon National University
Jeffrey S. Moore
Jeffrey S. Moore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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