Paula
Petrone`s Web Page
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Current Projects
I work in Vijay Pande `s Lab at Stanford, doing
research in Computer Simulations of Large Biomolecules. This is my second year in the Stanford Biophysics PhD Program. I am interested in coarse grain dynamics of large biomolecules,
and trying to understand the collective motions of atoms that could be
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Metal-Insulator transition in the double perovskites.
A.A. Aligia, P. Petrone. Phys. Rev. B, 64, 092414, 2001.
Effective three-band model for double perovskites. P. Petrone, A. A. Aligia, Phys. Rev.
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66, 104418, 2002.
MHC-Peptide Binding is Assisted by Bound
Water Molecules, Paula M. Petrone and Angel E. Garcia. Journal of Molecular
Biology, Volume 338, Issue 2, 23
April 2004, Pages 419-435.
few normal modes? Paula Petrone, Vijay
Pande, Biophysical Journal, in press 2005.
Paula Petrone
Pande Group
Clark Center, MC 5447
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5447
Personal
Web Page under Construction
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976.
In 2001, I obtained my Undergraduate Degree (Licenciatura) in
Physics at Insituto Balseiro, Argentina, which is equivalent to a Masters Degree
in the US, because of its duration and the 2-year thesis required for its
completion. My project was in Solid State Physics. It consisted of ab-initio
and analytical calculations for an effective band model of double perovskites.
My advisor was Dr. Armando Aligia.
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Cerro Lopez. Bariloche 2001.
In 2002, I was hired as Graduate Research
Assistant at the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Division at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. My mentor was Angel Garcia. We performed Molecular Dynamics
Simulations to study the role of water in the binding of endogenous peptides in
the MHC-receptor. This work was my first approach to Biophysics and showed me
that living systems comprise an immense source of challenging (and maybe
unsolvable) problems for a physicist.
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Bandelier National Park. Los Alamos 2002.
Today, I am working
in Vijay Pande`s group, at Stanford, looking for new approaches to model the
dynamics and structure of large biomolecules.
I am interested in conformational
changes in proteins. The study of how and why proteins undergo big structural
changes upon binding of ligands is relevant for drug-prediction and many other
fundamental aspects of biology and biophysics.
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Marine National Headlands.
Big Sur Pfeiffer Beach.
San Francisco 2003.
My
new project involves a big macromolecule: the Ribosome.
The
Ribosome is the factory where aminoacids are assembled into new proteins as
prescribed by the DNA. The
ribosome is crucial for the cell to exist. Little is known about the methods,
chemistry and structural motions that take place in the ribosome. I am currently investigating different
approaches to treat this problem whose biological complexity is a challenge to
both experimental and computational techniques.
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Russian Ridge up Skyline.
My favourite biking trail and sunset-watching spot near work.
Las Perlitas de Maria, in Cordoba, Argentina.
http://www.lasperlitasdemaria.com/
This shelter hosts dozens of infants and pregnant mothers in
extreme poverty and lacks any funding from the Argentine government. Together
with Argentine students at Stanford, every year we collect funds to help this
shelter. Even if our contribution is small, we believe that we are making a
difference. If you would like to help us, be on our mailing list or have any
ideas that would make our fund raising more effective, please contact me soon.
Pande
Group: My current job
Instituto Balseiro -CAB : My school in Argentina
Las Perlitas de Maria: Food
shelter in Cordoba, Argentina.
My photo
gallery: adventures, trips, friends & family (in construction)
Por Los Chicos : Free online donation of food
to hungry kids in Argentina.
Craig`s
List: everything you can sell/buy in the bay area.
Last
revised: December 2, 2005.
