I'm currently a graduate student in Chem. & Biomol. Engg., working in the Leckband group at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Research interests
Biophysics: In particular, looking at cell surface receptors using dynamic force and optical spectroscopies.
Publications
V. Maruthamuthu, K. Schulten and D.E. Leckband, "Elasticity and Rupture of a Multi-domain Cell Adhesion Complex", submitted to Biophys. J.
A.K. Prakasam, V. Maruthamuthu and D.E. Leckband, "Similarities between heterophilic and homophilic cadherin adhesion," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 15434-15439 (2006).
A. Prakasam, Y.H. Chien, V. Maruthamuthu and D.E. Leckband, "Calcium Site Mutations in Cadherin: Impact on Adhesion and Evidence of Cooperativity," Biochemistry, 45, 6930-6939 (2006).
