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  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Neal W. Woodbury is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research covers a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Immunology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Woodbury has authored research papers published in a range of scientific venues. Recent notable publications include:

  • DNA-templated programmable excitonic wires for micron-scale exciton transport, 2022, Chem
  • Two-Dimensional Excitonic Networks Directed by DNA Templates as an Efficient Model Light-Harvesting and Energy Transfer System, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Comprehensive Prediction of Molecular Recognition in a Combinatorial Chemical Space Using Machine Learning, 2020, ACS Combinatorial Science
  • Interfacing Photosystem I Reaction Centers with a Porous Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide Electrode to Perform Light-Driven Redox Chemistry, 2021, ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • Modeling the sequence dependence of differential antibody binding in the immune response to infectious disease, 2023, PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Woodbury include Laimonas Kelbauskas, Alexander T. Taguchi, Zhan-Gong Zhao, Chris W. Diehnelt, and Robayet Chowdhury. These partnerships reflect Woodbury's interdisciplinary approach and involvement in multiple research domains.

Several of Woodbury's publications have appeared in significant venues such as Zenodo hosted by CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Frontiers in Immunology, bioRxiv from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Chem, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Woodbury received recognition in the form of the Fellow designation of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020, signaling contributions to innovation and applied research.

Best Publications

  • Interenzyme Substrate Diffusion for an Enzyme Cascade Organized on Spatially Addressable DNA Nanostructures

    Jinglin Fu;Minghui Liu;Yan Liu;Neal W. Woodbury

  • Multi-enzyme complexes on DNA scaffolds capable of substrate channelling with an artificial swinging arm

    Jinglin Fu;Yuhe Renee Yang;Alexander Johnson-Buck;Minghui Liu

  • Picosecond kinetics of the initial photochemical electron-transfer reaction in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers.

    N. W. Woodbury;M. Becker;D. Middendorf;William W. Parson

  • Nanocaged enzymes with enhanced catalytic activity and increased stability against protease digestion.

    Zhao Zhao;Jinglin Fu;Soma Dhakal;Alexander Johnson-Buck

  • A DNA tweezer-actuated enzyme nanoreactor

    Minghui Liu;Jinglin Fu;Christian Hejesen;Yuhe Yang

  • Nanosecond fluorescence from isolated photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.

    Neal W.T. Woodbury;William W. Parson

  • Protein dynamics control the kinetics of initial electron transfer in photosynthesis

    Haiyu Wang;Su Lin;James P. Allen;JoAnn C. Williams

  • Radical-pair energetics and decay mechanisms in reaction centers containing anthraquinones, naphthoquinones or benzoquinones in place of ubiquinone

    Neal W. Woodbury;William W. Parson;Marilyn R. Gunner;Roger C. Prince

  • Effects of mutations near the bacteriochlorophylls in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

    Joann Williams;R. G. Alden;H. A. Murchison;J. M. Peloquin

  • The Pathway, Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Electron Transfer in Wild Type and Mutant Reaction Centers of Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria

    Neal W. Woodbury;James P. Allen

  • Time-dependent thermodynamics during early electron transfer in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

    Jeffrey M. Peloquin;Jo Ann C. Williams;Xiaomei Lin;Rhett G. Alden;Rhett G. Alden

  • Characterization of Chlorobium tepidum Chlorosomes: A Calculation of Bacteriochlorophyll c per Chlorosome and Oligomer Modeling

    Gabriel A. Montaño;Benjamin P. Bowen;Jeffrey T. LaBelle;Neal W. Woodbury

  • Exploring the sequence space of a DNA aptamer using microarrays

    Evaldas Katilius;Carole Flores;Neal W. Woodbury

  • Scalable high-density peptide arrays for comprehensive health monitoring

    Joseph Barten Legutki;Zhan-Gong Zhao;Matt Greving;Neal Woodbury

  • Creating protein affinity reagents by combining peptide ligands on synthetic DNA scaffolds.

    Berea A. R. Williams;Chris W. Diehnelt;Paul Belcher;Matthew Greving

  • Programmed coherent coupling in a synthetic DNA-based excitonic circuit

    Étienne Boulais;Nicolas P. D. Sawaya;Nicolas P. D. Sawaya;Rémi Veneziano;Alessio Andreoni

  • Mutations designed to modify the environment of the primary electron donor of the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: phenylalanine to leucine at L167 and histidine to phenylalanine at L168.

    H. A. Murchison;R. G. Alden;James Allen;J. M. Peloquin

  • B-side electron transfer in a Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutant in which the B-side monomer bacteriochlorophyll is replaced with bacteriopheophytin

    Evaldas Katilius;Trieva Turanchik;Su Lin;and Aileen K. W. Taguchi

  • Relationship between thermodynamics and mechanism during photoinduced charge separation in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

    Neal W. Woodbury;Jeffrey M. Peloquin;Rhett G. Alden;Rhett G. Alden;Xiaomei Lin

  • Femtosecond Spectroscopic Observations of Initial Intermediates in the Photocycle of the Photoactive Yellow Protein from Ectothiorhodospira halophila

    Savitha Devanathan;Andrew Pacheco;Laszlo Ujj;Michael Cusanovich

  • Immunosignature system for diagnosis of cancer

    Phillip Stafford;Zbigniew Cichacz;Neal W. Woodbury;Stephen Albert Johnston

  • Fourier transform infrared study of the primary electron donor in chromatophores of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with reaction centers genetically modified at residues M160 and L131

    E. Nabedryk;James Allen;A. K W Taguchi;Joann Williams

  • A DNA-directed light-harvesting/reaction center system.

    Palash K. Dutta;Symon Levenberg;Andrey Loskutov;Daniel Jun

Frequent Co-Authors

Su Lin
Su Lin Arizona State University
James P. Allen
James P. Allen Arizona State University
Hao Yan
Hao Yan Arizona State University
Arvi Freiberg
Arvi Freiberg University of Tartu
Stephen Albert Johnston
Stephen Albert Johnston Arizona State University
Yan Liu
Yan Liu Arizona State University
Robert E. Blankenship
Robert E. Blankenship Washington University in St. Louis
William W. Parson
William W. Parson University of Washington
Steven G. Boxer
Steven G. Boxer Stanford University
Trent R. Northen
Trent R. Northen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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