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D-Index
53
Citations
8604
World Ranking
13225
National Ranking
3477

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1951 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael Laskowski was affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research contributions spanned the fields of computer science and mathematics, with notable focus on computational theory and mathematics, geometry and topology, as well as discrete mathematics and combinatorics.

The scientist's work covered multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Advanced Topology and Set Theory
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Advanced Algebra and Logic
  • Semigroups and Automata Theory
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Rings, Modules, and Algebras

Among their recent publications were the following papers:

  • "Uniformly Bounded Arrays and Mutually Algebraic Structures," 2020, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
  • "Jumps in Speeds of Hereditary Properties in Finite Relational Languages," 2022, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • "Existential Characterizations of Monadic NIP," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Mutual Algebraicity and Cellularity," 2022, Archive for Mathematical Logic
  • "Characterizations of Monadic NIP," 2021, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Series B

Their frequent coauthors included:

  • Samuel Braunfeld
  • Douglas Ulrich
  • Danielle Ulrich
  • John T. Baldwin
  • Saharon Shelah

Common venues where the scientist's work was published included:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Symbolic Logic
  • Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Series B
  • Model Theory
  • Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

In total, the scientist contributed extensively to areas intersecting advanced topology, logic, and algebra within computer science and mathematics. Their research helped explore structures in logic and algebra, computability theories, and combinatorial properties of mathematical objects.

Michael Laskowski was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor awarded in 1951.

Best Publications

  • Location of chromophoric residues in proteins by solvent perturbation. I. Tyrosyls in serum albumins.

    Theodore T. Herskovits;Michael Laskowski

  • The Reactive Site of Trypsin Inhibitors

    Kyoichi Ozawa;Michael Laskowski

  • Synthesis of peptide bonds by proteinases. Addition of organic cosolvents shifts peptide bond equilibria toward synthesis.

    Gene A. Homandberg;Jeffrey A. Mattis;Michael Laskowski

  • Crystal and molecular structures of the complex of alpha-chymotrypsin with its inhibitor turkey ovomucoid third domain at 1.8 A resolution.

    Masao Fujinaga;Anita R. Sielecki;Randy J. Read;Wojciech Ardelt

  • Ovomucoid third domains from 100 avian species: isolation, sequences, and hypervariability of enzyme-inhibitor contact residues.

    Laskowski M;Kato I;Ardelt W;Cook J

  • Chicken ovomucoid: determination of its amino acid sequence, determination of the trypsin reactive site, and preparation of all three of its domains

    Ikunoshin Kato;James Schrode;William J. Kohr;Michael Laskowski

  • 11 Protein Proteinase Inhibitors-Molecular Aspects

    Michael Laskowski;Robert W. Sealock

  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of single residue replacements in avian ovomucoid third domains: effect on inhibitor interactions with serine proteinases.

    Mark W. Empie;Michael Laskowski

  • SUBSTRATE ACTIVATION OF TRYPSIN.

    Clarence G. Trowbridge;Arlene Krehbiel;Michael Laskowski

  • Binding of amino acid side-chains to S1 cavities of serine proteinases

    Wuyuan Lu;Izydor Apostol;M.A. Qasim;Nicholas Warne

  • Crystallographic refinement of Japanese quail ovomucoid, a Kazal-type inhibitor, and model building studies of complexes with serine proteases

    Evangelos Papamokos;Ernst Weber;Wolfram Bode;Robert Huber

  • The Effects of Charged Groups on the Chromophores of Lysozyme and of Amino Acids1,2,3

    John W. Donovan;Michael Laskowski;Harold A. Scheraga

  • Detailed Mechanism of Interaction of Bovine β-Trypsin with Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor (Kunitz) I. STOPPED FLOW MEASUREMENTS

    James A. Luthy;Melvin Praissman;William R. Finkenstadt;Michael Laskowski

  • Mung bean nuclease I. Physical, chemical, and catalytic properties.

    David Kowalski;Warren D. Kroeker;M. Laskowski

  • The squash family of serine proteinase inhibitors. Amino acid sequences and association equilibrium constants of inhibitors from squash, summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds.

    Maciej Wieczorek;Jacek Otlewski;Jacek Otlewski;James Cook;Kevin Parks

  • The crystal and molecular structure of the third domain of silver pheasant ovomucoid (OMSVP3).

    Wolfram Bode;Otto Epp;Robert Huber;Michael Laskowski

  • Tyrosine hydrogen-bonding and environmental effects in proteins probed by ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy

    Peter G. Hildebrandt;Robert A. Copeland;Thomas G. Spiro;Jacek Otlewski

  • Peptide Bond Cleavage on Trypsin-Trypsin Inhibitor Complex Formation

    William R. Finkenstadt;Michael Laskowski

  • Enzymatic replacement of the arginyl by a lysyl residue in the reactive site of soybean trypsin inhibitor

    Robert W. Sealock;Michael Laskowski

  • Predicting the reactivity of proteins from their sequence alone: Kazal family of protein inhibitors of serine proteinases.

    Stephen M. Lu;Wuyuan Lu;M. A. Qasim;Stephen Anderson

  • Resynthesis by Trypsin of the Cleaved Peptide Bond in Modified Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor

    William R. Finkenstadt;Michael Laskowski

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Markley
John L. Markley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Harold A. Scheraga
Harold A. Scheraga Cornell University
Wuyuan Lu
Wuyuan Lu University of Maryland, Baltimore
Michael N. G. James
Michael N. G. James University of Alberta
Stephen Anderson
Stephen Anderson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Wolfram Bode
Wolfram Bode Max Planck Society
Randy J. Read
Randy J. Read University of Cambridge
Dolores E. Hill
Dolores E. Hill United States Department of Agriculture

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