PEOPLE: CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Stefan Wallin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: Mallinckrodt 105
Tel: (617) 496-4368
Fax: (617) 384-9228
wallin at fas.harvard.edu

Education

1999            M.Sc. Physics and Mathematics, Lund University.

2003            Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Lund University.

Research Experience

2004 - 2006            Postdoc, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto.

2006 -                     Postdoc, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

List of Publications

1. S. Wallin and E. I. Shakhnovich. Understanding Ensemble Protein Folding at Atomic Detail (to appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter).
2. J. S. Yang, S. Wallin, and E. I. Shakhnovich. Universality and Diversity of Folding Mechanics for Three-Helix Bundle Proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105 7113-7117 (2008).
3. S. Wallin, K. B. Zeldovich and E. I. Shakhnovich. Folding Mechanics of a Knotted Protein. Journal of Molecular Biology 368 884-893 (2007).
4. S. Wallin and H. S. Chan. Conformational Entropic Barriers in Topology-Dependent Protein Folding: Perspectives from a Simple Native-Centric Polymer Model. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18 S307-S328 (2006).
5. S. Wallin and H. S. Chan. A Critical Assessment of the Topomer Search Model of Protein Folding Using a Continuum Explicit-Chain Model With Extensive Conformational Sampling. Protein Science 14, 1643--1660 (2005).
6. G. Favrin, A. Irbäck and S. Wallin. Sequence-Based Study of Two Related Proteins with Different Folding Behaviors. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 54, 8--12 (2004).
7. A. Irbäck, B. Samuelsson, F. Sjunnesson and S. Wallin. Thermodynamics of alpha- and beta-Structure Formation in Proteins. Biophysical Journal 85, 1466--1473 (2003).
8. S. Wallin, J. Farwer and U. Bastolla. Testing Similarity Measures with Continuous and Discrete Protein Models. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 50, 144--157 (2003).
9. G. Favrin, A. Irbäck, B. Samuelsson and S. Wallin. Two-State Folding Over a Weak Free-Energy Barrier. Biophysical Journal 85, 1457--1465 (2003).
10. G. Favrin, A. Irbäck and S. Wallin. Folding of a Small Helical Protein Using Hydrogen Bonds and Hydrophobicity Forces. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 47, 99--105 (2002).
11. A. Irbäck, F. Sjunnesson and S. Wallin. Hydrogen Bonds, Hydrophobicity Forces and the Character of the Collapse Transition. Proceedings of the ISI Workshop "Protein Folding: Simple Models and Experiments", eds. P. Bruscolini et al. Journal of Biological Physics 27, 169--179 (2001).
12. A. Irbäck, F. Sjunnesson and S. Wallin. Three-Helix-Bundle Protein in a Ramachandran Model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97, 13614--13618 (2000).