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Michael F. Crowley is affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States, where their research focuses on various topics in biomedical engineering, infectious diseases, molecular biology, biomaterials, and plant science. Their work spans interdisciplinary fields that intersect biofuel production, lignin and wood chemistry, advanced cellulose research, and aspects of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 detection and testing.

Their publications feature research on biofuel production and bioconversion, lignin and wood chemistry, advanced cellulose research studies, fermentation and sensory analysis, polysaccharides and plant cell walls, and SARS-CoV-2 detection methods. Michael F. Crowley has contributed to journals and venues known for their focus on chemistry and biological sciences.

Some recent papers from their body of work include:

  • Advances in Multiscale Modeling of Lignocellulosic Biomass, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Molecular Lignin Solubility and Structure in Organic Solvents, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • CHARMM at 45: Enhancements in Accessibility, Functionality, and Speed, 2024, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The reaction mechanism of the Ideonella sakaiensis PETase enzyme, 2024, Communications Chemistry
  • Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase increases cellobiohydrolases activity by promoting decrystallization of cellulose surface, 2022, Science Advances

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Gregg T. Beckham
  • Josh V. Vermaas
  • Brandon C. Knott
  • Vivek S. Bharadwaj
  • F. J. Belda

Michael F. Crowley's research has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Best Publications

  • Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase

    Harry P. Austin;Mark D. Allen;Bryon S. Donohoe;Nicholas A. Rorrer

  • The implementation of a fast and accurate QM/MM potential method in Amber.

    Ross C. Walker;Michael F. Crowley;David A. Case

  • Revealing Nature’s Cellulase Diversity: The Digestion Mechanism of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii CelA

    Roman Brunecky;Markus Alahuhta;Qi Xu;Bryon S. Donohoe

  • Experimental and theoretical studies of a coupled chemical oscillator: phase death, multistability, and in-phase and out-of-phase entrainment

    Michael F. Crowley;Irving R. Epstein

  • Molecular-level origins of biomass recalcitrance: decrystallization free energies for four common cellulose polymorphs.

    Gregg T. Beckham;Gregg T. Beckham;Gregg T. Beckham;James F. Matthews;Baron Peters;Yannick J. Bomble

  • A promiscuous cytochrome P450 aromatic O-demethylase for lignin bioconversion.

    Sam J. B. Mallinson;Melodie M. Machovina;Melodie M. Machovina;Rodrigo L. Silveira;Rodrigo L. Silveira;Marc Garcia-Borràs

  • The Mechanism of Cellulose Hydrolysis by a Two-Step, Retaining Cellobiohydrolase Elucidated by Structural and Transition Path Sampling Studies.

    Brandon C. Knott;Majid Haddad Momeni;Michael F. Crowley;Lloyd F. Mackenzie

  • Crystal structure and computational characterization of the lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase GH61D from the basidiomycota fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium

    Miao Wu;Gregg T. Beckham;Gregg T. Beckham;Anna M. Larsson;Takuya Ishida

  • Glycosylated linkers in multimodular lignocellulose-degrading enzymes dynamically bind to cellulose

    Christina M. Payne;Michael G. Resch;Liqun Chen;Michael F. Crowley

  • New faster CHARMM molecular dynamics engine.

    Antti-Pekka Hynninen;Michael F. Crowley

  • High-temperature behavior of cellulose I.

    James F Matthews;Malin Bergenstråhle;Malin Bergenstråhle;Gregg T Beckham;Gregg T Beckham;Gregg T Beckham;Michael E Himmel

  • Passive membrane transport of lignin-related compounds.

    Josh V. Vermaas;Richard A. Dixon;Fang Chen;Shawn D. Mansfield

  • Predicting Enzyme Adsorption to Lignin Films by Calculating Enzyme Surface Hydrophobicity

    Deanne W. Sammond;John M. Yarbrough;Elisabeth Mansfield;Yannick J. Bomble

  • Identification of amino acids responsible for processivity in a Family 1 carbohydrate-binding module from a fungal cellulase.

    Gregg T. Beckham;James F. Matthews;Yannick J. Bomble;Lintao Bu

  • Adventures in Improving the Scaling and Accuracy of a Parallel Molecular Dynamics Program

    Michael Crowley;Tom Darden;Thomas Cheatham;David Deerfield

  • Comparison of Cellulose Iβ Simulations with Three Carbohydrate Force Fields.

    James F. Matthews;Gregg T. Beckham;Malin Bergenstråhle-Wohlert;Malin Bergenstråhle-Wohlert;John W. Brady

  • Applications of computational science for understanding enzymatic deconstruction of cellulose.

    Gregg T Beckham;Yannick J Bomble;Yannick J Bomble;Edward A Bayer;Michael E Himmel;Michael E Himmel

  • A biophysical perspective on the cellulosome: new opportunities for biomass conversion.

    Shi You Ding;Qi Xu;Michael Crowley;Yining Zeng

  • A molecular level picture of the stabilization of A-DNA in mixed ethanol–water solutions

    Thomas E. Cheatham;Michael F. Crowley;Thomas Fox;Peter A. Kollman

  • Electrically coupled Belousov-Zhabotinskii oscillators. 1. Experiments and simulations

    Michael F. Crowley;Richard J. Field

  • Multiple Functions of Aromatic-Carbohydrate Interactions in a Processive Cellulase Examined with Molecular Simulation

    Christina M. Payne;Yannick J. Bomble;Courtney B. Taylor;Clare McCabe

  • Message-passing neural networks for high-throughput polymer screening

    Peter C. St. John;Caleb Phillips;Travis W. Kemper;A. Nolan Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregg T. Beckham
Gregg T. Beckham National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Michael E. Himmel
Michael E. Himmel National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mark R. Nimlos
Mark R. Nimlos National Renewable Energy Laboratory
John W. Brady
John W. Brady Cornell University
Jerry Ståhlberg
Jerry Ståhlberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Charles L. Brooks
Charles L. Brooks University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen R. Decker
Stephen R. Decker National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bryon S. Donohoe
Bryon S. Donohoe National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Clare McCabe
Clare McCabe Vanderbilt University
Munir S. Skaf
Munir S. Skaf State University of Campinas

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