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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - King Faisal Prize
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Ronald M. Levy is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing to fields including molecular biology, infectious diseases, virology, genetics, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research

Recent publications by Ronald M. Levy include:

  • Mi3-GPU: MCMC-based inverse Ising inference on GPUs for protein covariation analysis (2020), published in Computer Physics Communications
  • The generative capacity of probabilistic protein sequence models (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Mechanisms of HIV-1 integrase resistance to dolutegravir and potent inhibition of drug-resistant variants (2023), published in Science Advances
  • Evolutionary divergence in the conformational landscapes of tyrosine vs serine/threonine kinases (2022), published in eLife
  • Exploring the Free-Energy Landscape and Thermodynamics of Protein-Protein Association (2020), published in Biophysical Journal

The frequent co-authors for their papers have included:

  • Allan Haldane (25 publications)
  • Avik Biswas (15 publications)
  • Indrani Choudhuri (11 publications)
  • Dmitry Lyumkis (11 publications)
  • Qinfang Sun (7 publications)

Ronald M. Levy has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 13 publications
  • Biophysical Journal - 7 publications
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B - 4 publications
  • Nature Communications - 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 2 publications

The scientist's awards include:

  • King Faisal Prize, 2009
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2007
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1997
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1982
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Integrated Modeling Program, Applied Chemical Theory (IMPACT).

    Jay L. Banks;Hege S. Beard;Yixiang X. Cao;Art E. Cho

  • Enthalpy−Entropy and Cavity Decomposition of Alkane Hydration Free Energies: Numerical Results and Implications for Theories of Hydrophobic Solvation

    E. Gallicchio;and M. M. Kubo;R. M. Levy

  • AGBNP: an analytic implicit solvent model suitable for molecular dynamics simulations and high-resolution modeling.

    Emilio Gallicchio;Ronald M. Levy

  • Structural Organization of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme and the RNA Polymerase-Promoter Open Complex

    Vladimir Mekler;Ekaterine Kortkhonjia;Ekaterine Kortkhonjia;Jayanta Mukhopadhyay;Jayanta Mukhopadhyay;Jennifer Knight

  • COMPUTER SIMULATIONS WITH EXPLICIT SOLVENT: Recent Progress in the Thermodynamic Decomposition of Free Energies and in Modeling Electrostatic Effects

    Ronald M. Levy;Emilio Gallicchio

  • On the nonpolar hydration free energy of proteins: Surface area and continuum solvent models for the solute-solvent interaction energy

    Ronald M Levy;Linda Y Zhang;Emilio Gallicchio;Anthony K Felts

  • Simplified amino acid alphabets for protein fold recognition and implications for folding.

    Lynne Reed Murphy;Anders Wallqvist;Ronald M. Levy

  • Evaluation of the configurational entropy for proteins: application to molecular dynamics simulations of an α-helix

    Ronald M. Levy;Martin Karplus;Joseph Kushick;David Perahia

  • The SGB/NP hydration free energy model based on the surface generalized born solvent reaction field and novel nonpolar hydration free energy estimators

    Emilio Gallicchio;Linda Yu Zhang;Ronald M. Levy

  • Quasi-harmonic method for studying very low frequency modes in proteins

    R. M. Levy;A. R. Srinivasan;W. K. Olson;J. A. McCammon

  • Conformational analysis of the DFG-out kinase motif and biochemical profiling of structurally validated type II inhibitors.

    R. S. K. Vijayan;Peng He;Vivek Modi;Krisna C. Duong-Ly

  • Antibacterial Peptide Microcin J25 Inhibits Transcription by Binding within and Obstructing the RNA Polymerase Secondary Channel

    Jayanta Mukhopadhyay;Elena Sineva;Elena Sineva;Jennifer Knight;Ronald M. Levy

  • Computer simulations of the dielectric properties of water: Studies of the simple point charge and transferrable intermolecular potential models

    Howard E. Alper;Ronald M. Levy

  • An Anisotropic Polarizable Water Model: Incorporation of All-Atom Polarizabilities into Molecular Mechanics Force Fields

    Dan N. Bernardo;Yanbo Ding;Karsten Krogh-Jespersen;Ronald M. Levy

  • Temperature weighted histogram analysis method, replica exchange, and transition paths.

    Emilio Gallicchio;Michael Andrec;and Anthony K. Felts;Ronald M. Levy

  • Structural reorganization of α-synuclein at low pH observed by NMR and REMD simulations

    Kuen-Phon Wu;Daniel S. Weinstock;Chitra Narayanan;Ronald M. Levy

  • Effect of anisotropy and anharmonicity on protein crystallographic refinement: An evaluation by molecular dynamics

    John Kuriyan;John Kuriyan;Gregory A. Petsko;Ronald M. Levy;Martin Karplus

  • Gaussian fluctuation formula for electrostatic free‐energy changes in solution

    Ronald M. Levy;Mahfoud Belhadj;Douglas B. Kitchen

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of solvated protein at high pressure

    Douglas B. Kitchen;Lynne H. Reed;Ronald M. Levy

  • Theory of binless multi-state free energy estimation with applications to protein-ligand binding.

    Zhiqiang Tan;Emilio Gallicchio;Mauro Lapelosa;Ronald M. Levy

  • Diffusive langevin dynamics of model alkanes

    Ronald M. Levy;Martin Karplus;J. Andrew McCammon

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio Gallicchio
Emilio Gallicchio City University of New York
Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus Harvard University
Karsten Krogh-Jespersen
Karsten Krogh-Jespersen Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nobuyuki Matubayasi
Nobuyuki Matubayasi Osaka University
Richard A. Friesner
Richard A. Friesner Columbia University
Gaetano T. Montelione
Gaetano T. Montelione Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fumio Hirata
Fumio Hirata Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Jean Baum
Jean Baum Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia University of Colorado Denver

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