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107
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41141
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913
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael T. Bowers is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily covers topics within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Neurology as subfields.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis research, and Protein Structure and Dynamics. Additional areas of study include Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases, as well as Hemoglobin structure and function.

Michael T. Bowers has published frequently in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Biophysical Journal
  • The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine

Co-authorship collaborations are evident with several researchers, including:

  • Steven K. Buratto (7 joint publications)
  • Xikun Liu (6 joint publications)
  • Joan-Emma Shea (6 joint publications)
  • Pritam Ganguly (5 joint publications)
  • Yingying Jin (4 joint publications)

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael T. Bowers demonstrate involvement in molecular-level studies and neurodegenerative diseases:

  • "Multiscale simulations reveal TDP-43 molecular-level interactions driving condensation," 2023, Biophysical Journal
  • "Terminal Capping of an Amyloidogenic Tau Fragment Modulates Its Fibrillation Propensity," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Tachykinin Neuropeptides and Amyloid β (25-35) Assembly: Friend or Foe?," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Catalytic Cross Talk between Key Peptide Fragments That Couple Alzheimer's Disease with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Latent Models of Molecular Dynamics Data: Automatic Order Parameter Generation for Peptide Fibrillization," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

The scientist has been recognized with awards including election as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), both in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Gas phase ion chemistry

    Michael T. Bowers

  • Amyloid-β protein oligomerization and the importance of tetramers and dodecamers in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease

    Summer L. Bernstein;Nicholas F. Dupuis;Noel D. Lazo;Thomas Wyttenbach

  • An investigation of the mobility separation of some peptide and protein ions using a new hybrid quadrupole/travelling wave IMS/oa-ToF instrument

    Steven D. Pringle;Kevin Giles;Jason L. Wildgoose;Jonathan P. Williams

  • Carbon cluster cations with up to 84 atoms: structures, formation mechanism, and reactivity

    G. Von Helden;Ming-Teh Hsu;N. Gotts;M. T. Bowers

  • Ion-Polar molecule collisions: the effect of ion size on ion-polar molecule rate constants; the parameterization of the average-dipole-orientation theory

    Timothy Su;Michael T. Bowers

  • Structures of carbon cluster ions from 3 to 60 atoms: Linears to rings to fullerenes

    Gert von Helden;Ming‐Teh Hsu;Paul R. Kemper;Michael T. Bowers

  • Theory of ion‐polar molecule collisions. Comparison with experimental charge transfer reactions of rare gas ions to geometric isomers of difluorobenzene and dichloroethylene

    Timothy Su;Michael T. Bowers

  • Experimental evidence for the formation of fullerenes by collisional heating of carbon rings in the gas phase

    Gert von Helden;Nigel G. Gotts;Michael T. Bowers

  • Gas-Phase Conformation of Biological Molecules: Bradykinin

    Thomas Wyttenbach;and Gert von Helden;Michael T. Bowers

  • Recommendations for reporting ion mobility Mass Spectrometry measurements

    Valérie Gabelica;Alexandre A. Shvartsburg;Carlos Afonso;Perdita Barran

  • A thermodynamic analysis of solvation effects on the basicities of alkylamines. An electrostatic analysis of substituent effects

    Donald H. Aue;Hugh M. Webb;Michael T. Bowers

  • Ion mobility–mass spectrometry reveals a conformational conversion from random assembly to β-sheet in amyloid fibril formation

    Christian Bleiholder;Nicholas F. Dupuis;Thomas Wyttenbach;Michael T. Bowers

  • Structural stability from solution to the gas phase: native solution structure of ubiquitin survives analysis in a solvent-free ion mobility-mass spectrometry environment.

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Michael T. Bowers

  • Conformation of macromolecules in the gas phase: use of matrix-assisted laser desorption methods in ion chromatography.

    Gert von Helden;Thomas Wyttenbach;Michael T. Bowers

  • Amyloid β-protein: Monomer structure and early aggregation states of Aβ42 and its Pro19 alloform

    Summer L Bernstein;Thomas Wyttenbach;Andrij Baumketner;Joan-Emma Shea

  • Quantitative proton affinities, ionization potentials, and hydrogen affinities of alkylamines

    Donald H. Aue;Hugh M. Webb;Michael T. Bowers

  • Effect of the long-range potential on ion mobility measurements

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Gert von Helden;Joseph J. Batka;Douglas Carlat

  • Collisions in a noncentral field: A variational and trajectory investigation of ion–dipole capture

    Walter J. Chesnavich;Timothy Su;Michael T. Bowers

  • Design of a new electrospray ion mobility mass spectrometer

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Paul R. Kemper;Michael T. Bowers

  • Gas-phase ion chromatography: transition metal state selection and carbon cluster formation.

    Michael T. Bowers;Paul R. Kemper;Gert von Helden;Petra A. M. van Koppen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Wyttenbach
Thomas Wyttenbach University of California, Santa Barbara
Martin F. Jarrold
Martin F. Jarrold Indiana University
Gert von Helden
Gert von Helden Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Erin S. Baker
Erin S. Baker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David B. Teplow
David B. Teplow University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Pagel
Kevin Pagel Freie Universität Berlin
Horia Metiu
Horia Metiu University of California, Santa Barbara
Wesley T. Huntress
Wesley T. Huntress Carnegie Institution for Science
Gal Bitan
Gal Bitan University of California, Los Angeles
Perdita E. Barran
Perdita E. Barran University of Manchester

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