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Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tel: (617) 495-4130
Fax: (617) 384-9228
E-mail: eugene@belok.harvard.edu

 

PEOPLE: CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Jingshan Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617) 496-5499
Fax: (617) 384-9228
zhang44@fas.harvard.edu

Research Summary

I study theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Condensed Matter Physics. I worked on theoretical understandings of the transport properties of ion channels, and now I am developing physical models of protein protein interactions, both on a network level and on a two-body level.

Publications
1. J. Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii, "Effective charge and free energy of DNA inside an ion channel"
2. D. J. Bonthuis, J. Zhang, B. Hornblower, J. Mathe, B. I. Shklovskii, A. Meller, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett "Self-energy limited ion transport in sub-nanometer channels"
3. J. Zhang, A. Kamenev, B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. E 73, 051205 (2006) "Ion Exchange Phase Transitions in 'Doped' Water-Filled Channels" selected for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, June 1, 2006.
4. J. Zhang, A. Kamenev, B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 148101 (2005) "Conductance of Ion Channels and Nanopores with Charged Walls: A Toy Model" selected for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Oct 1, 2005.
5. A. Kamenev, J. Zhang, A. I. Larkin, B. I. Shklovskii, Physica A 359, 129 (2006) "Transport in One Dimensional Coulomb Gases: from Ion Channels to Nanopores"
6. J. Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B 70, 115317 (2004) "Density of States and Conductivity of Granular Metal or Array of Quantum Dots"
7. J. Zhang, Z. Ma, C. Gao, Chinese Phys. Lett. 18, 1015 (2001) "Estimation of Local Energy Density in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions"


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