FSU Developing Scholar (1998) FSU Teaching Award (1998) Director of NSF Training Grant in Structural Biology Ph.D., University of Leeds, England 1983 Graduate Faculty Status

My general research interest is in molecular structure-function relationships as applied to motility. The organizational level is that of large macromolecular complexes--the interface of single-particle biochemistry/biophysics and cell biology.

Sár, C. P., J. Jek, P. G. Fajer, and K. Hideg. 1999. Synthesis and reactions of new alkynyl substituted nitroxide radicals. Synthesis 6: 1039-1045. Adhikari, B., J. Somerset, J. T. Stull, and P. G. Fajer. 1999. Dynamic modulation of regulatory domain of myosin heads by pH, ionic strength and RLC phosphorylation in synthetic myosin filaments. Biochemistry 38: 3127-2132. Palm, T., K. Sale, L. Brown, B. Hambly, H.-C. Li, and P. G. Fajer. 1999. Intradomain distances in regulatory domain of myosin head in prepower and postpower stroke states: fluorescence energy transfer. Biochemistry 38: 13026-13034. Sienkiewicz, A., M. Jaworski, B. G. Smith, P. G. Fajer, and C. Scholes. 2000. Dielectric resonator-based side-access probe for muscle fiber EPR study. J. Magnet. Reson. 143: 144-152. Fajer, P. G. 2000. EPR of proteins and peptides. In Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. R. Meyers, ed. Wiley, and Sons, London. Fajer, P. G. 2000. EPR spin labeling, In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan. Brown, L. J., N. Klonis, W. H. Sawyer, P. G. Fajer, and B. D. Hambly. 2001. Independent movement of the regulatory and catalytic domains of myosin heads revealed by phosphorescence anisotropy. Biochemistry 40: 8283-8291. Brown, L., L. Singh, K. Sale, B. Yu, R. Trent, P. G. Fajer, and B. D. Hambly. Functional and spectroscopic studies of an FHC mutation in motif X of cardiac myosin binding protein-C. Submitted to Eur. J. Biochem.