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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering the field of the study of the early events in protein folding using laser temperature jump initiation and fluorescence lifetime detection
  • 1997 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Martin Gruebele is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on molecular biology, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, cell biology, and ecology.

Their scientific contributions cover several main topics, including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications

Gruebele has published extensively in well-known scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Selected recent papers provide insight into the scope and evolution of their research interests:

  • "Unraveling the Fluorescence Mechanism of Carbon Dots with Sub-Single-Particle Resolution", 2020, ACS Nano
  • "The Molecular Basis for Life in Extreme Environments", 2021, Annual Review of Biophysics
  • "Properties of Carbon Dots versus Small Molecules from "Bottom-up" Synthesis", 2023, ACS Nano
  • "Progress and Prospects in Optical Ultrafast Microscopy in the Visible Spectral Region: Transient Absorption and Two-Dimensional Microscopy", 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "An in vitro mimic of in-cell solvation for protein folding studies", 2020, Protein Science

The researcher has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Taras V. Pogorelov
  • Meredith M. Rickard
  • Zhaleh Ghaemi
  • Premila P. Samuel
  • Caitlin M. Davis

A number of awards and honors have been conferred throughout their career, such as:

  • Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society, 2017
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2015
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  • Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2008, Chemistry
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002, recognized for pioneering work in protein folding using laser temperature jump initiation and fluorescence lifetime detection
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997

Best Publications

  • An extended dynamical hydration shell around proteins.

    Simon Ebbinghaus;Seung Joong Kim;Matthias Heyden;Xin Yu

  • Absolute comparison of simulated and experimental protein-folding dynamics

    Christopher D. Snow;Houbi Nguyen;Vijay S. Pande;Martin Gruebele

  • Folding at the speed limit

    Wei Yuan Yang;Martin Gruebele

  • Direct observation of fast protein folding: the initial collapse of apomyoglobin

    R M Ballew;J Sabelko;M Gruebele

  • Ten-Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Fast-Folding WW Domain

    Peter L. Freddolino;Feng Liu;Martin Gruebele;Klaus Schulten

  • Phase separation of YAP reorganizes genome topology for long-term YAP target gene expression

    Danfeng Cai;Daniel Feliciano;Peng Dong;Eduardo Flores

  • Observation of strange kinetics in protein folding

    J. Sabelko;J. Ervin;M. Gruebele;M. Gruebele

  • The folding mechanism of a β-sheet: the WW domain

    Marcus Jäger;Houbi Nguyen;Jason C Crane;Jeffery W Kelly

  • Structure, function, and folding of phosphoglycerate kinase are strongly perturbed by macromolecular crowding

    Apratim Dhar;Antonios Samiotakis;Simon Ebbinghaus;Lea Nienhaus

  • Context-dependent contributions of backbone hydrogen bonding to β-sheet folding energetics

    Songpon Deechongkit;Houbi Nguyen;Evan T. Powers;Philip E. Dawson

  • Femtosecond wave packet spectroscopy: Coherences, the potential, and structural determination

    M. Gruebele;A. H. Zewail

  • Long-range protein-water dynamics in hyperactive insect antifreeze proteins.

    Konrad Meister;Simon Ebbinghaus;Yao Xu;John G. Duman

  • Protein folding stability and dynamics imaged in a living cell

    Simon Ebbinghaus;Apratim Dhar;J Douglas McDonald;Martin Gruebele

  • Structure-function-folding relationship in a WW domain.

    Marcus Jäger;Yan Zhang;Jan Bieschke;Houbi Nguyen;Houbi Nguyen

  • Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging and Spectroscopy

    Haohua Tu;Zhi Jiang;Praveen D. Chowdary;Wladimir Benalcazar

  • The terahertz dance of water with the proteins: the effect of protein flexibility on the dynamical hydration shell of ubiquitin

    Benjamin Born;Seung Joong Kim;Simon Ebbinghaus;Martin Gruebele

  • Vibrational Energy Flow and Chemical Reactions

    Martin Gruebele;Peter Guy Wolynes

  • Molecular vibrational energy flow: Beyond the Golden Rule

    M. Gruebele;M. Gruebele;R. Bigwood

  • THE FAST PROTEIN FOLDING PROBLEM

    M. Gruebele

  • Chemical physics of protein folding.

    Peter G. Wolynes;William A. Eaton;Alan R. Fersht

  • Optical Control of Metal Ion Probes in Cells and Zebrafish Using Highly Selective DNAzymes Conjugated to Upconversion Nanoparticles.

    Zhenglin Yang;Kang Yong Loh;Yueh Te Chu;Ruopei Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph W. Lyding
Joseph W. Lyding University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard J. Saykally
Richard J. Saykally University of California, Berkeley
Jeffery W. Kelly
Jeffery W. Kelly Scripps Research Institute
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martina Havenith
Martina Havenith Ruhr University Bochum
David M. Leitner
David M. Leitner University of Nevada Reno
Evan T. Powers
Evan T. Powers Scripps Research Institute
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail California Institute of Technology
Stephen A. Boppart
Stephen A. Boppart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zaida Luthey-Schulten
Zaida Luthey-Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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