CURRENT POSITION July 2018 - Department Chair, Department of Chemistry, Rice University; July 2011 - Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University; Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University; September 2014 - Primary Investigator, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University. May 2019 - Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University. EDUCATION M.S. in Chemistry, Moscow State University, June 1991, Adviser: Professor L.N. Sidorov. M.S. in Chemistry, Cornell University, May 1996. Ph.D in Chemistry, Cornell University, January 1998, Adviser: Professor B. Widom. 1980-1984: Moscow State University Correspondence Mathematical High School. 1984-1991: Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, top place, first class diploma. 1988-1990: Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow: Passed 3 exams of the “Landau Theoretical Minimum”: Mathematics I, Mathematics II, and Classical Mechanics. 1991-1992: Postgraduate School, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University. 1993-1994: Graduate School, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky. 1994-1998: Graduate School, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University. POSITIONS 1988-1992: Laboratory Technician, Laboratory of Thermochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University. January 1998-June 1998: Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University. 1 June 1998-August 2000: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research group of Prof. M.E. Fisher, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland. 2000-2007 - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University. 2007-2011 - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University. Fall 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2018 - Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany. Summer 2010 - Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ESPCI, Paris, France. Fall 2011, Spring 2017 - Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Fall 2015 - Visiting Professor, Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford, UK. Visiting Professor, Imperial College, Department of Chemistry, London, UK. 2014-2018 - Associate Department Chair, Department of Chemistry, Rice University. Spring 2019 - Visiting Professor, ENS, Department of Physics, Paris, France.

Scientific interests: statistical mechanics of complex systems, theoretical physical chemistry and biophysics, non-equilibrium statistical physics, random walks, thermodynamics of electrolytes, asymmetric exclusion processes, protein nucleation and crystallization, polymer translocation, biopolymer growth, protein-DNA interactions, molecular dynamics of artificial molecular motors, rotors and nanocars.

DLPacker: Deep Learning for Prediction of Aminoacid Side Chain Conformations in Proteins. (M. Misiura, R. Shroff, R. Thyer and A.B.K.), submitted to Proteins (2021). Single-Cell Stochastic Modeling of the Action of Antimicrobial Peptides on bacteria. (H. Teimouri, Thao N. Nguyen and A.B.K.), to appear in J. Roy. Soc. Inter. (2021). Temporal Order of Mutations Influences Cancer Initiation Dynamics. (H. Teimouri and A.B.K.), Physical Biology 18, 056002 (2021). Crowding Breaks the Forward/Backward Symmetry of Transition Times in Biased Random Walks. (J. Shin, A.M. Berezhkovskii and A.B.K.), J. Chem. Phys. 154, 204104 (2021). Charge-free, stabilizing amide-pi interactions can be used to control collagen triple helix self-assembly. (D. Walker, A.A. Alizadehmojarad, A.B. K. and J. Hartgerink), Biomacromolecules 22, 2137-2147 (2021). DNA Looping Mediated by Site-Specific SfiI-DNA Interactions. (S. Vemulapalli, M. Hashemi, A.B.K. and Y.L. Lyubchenko), J. Phys. Chem. B. 125, 4645-4653 (2021). Long-Range Supercoiling-Mediated RNA Polymerase Cooperation in Transcription. (A. Klindziuk and A.B.K.), J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 4692-4700 (2021). Theoretical Analysis Reveals the Cost and Benefit of Proofreading in Coronavirus Genome Replication. (J.D. Mallory, X.F. Mallory A.B.K. and O.A. Igoshin), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 2691-2698 (2021) Mesoscopic protein-rich clusters host the nucleation of mutant p53 amyloid fibrils. (D.S. Yang, A. Saeedi, A. Davtyan, M. Fathi, M.B. Sherman,M.S. Safari, A. Klindziuk, M.C. Barton, N. Varadarajan, A.B.K. and P.G. Vekilov), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 e2015618118 (2021). DNA Looping and DNA Conformational Fluctuations Can Accelerate Protein Target Search. (C. Felipe, J. Shin and A.B.K.), J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 1727-1734 (2021) Dye Quenching of Carbon Nanotube Fluorescence Reveals Structure-Selective Coating Coverage. (Y. Zheng, A.A. Alizadehmojarad, S.M. Bachilo, A.B.K. and R.B. Weisman), ACS Nano 14, 12148-12158 (2020) Effect of local dissociations in bidirectional transport of driven particles. (A. Jindal, A.B.K. and A.K. Gupta), J. Stat. Mech. P113202 (2020). Asymmetry of forward/backward transition times as a non-equilibrium measure of complexity of microscopic mechanisms. (J. Shin and A.B.K.), J. Chem. Phys. 153, 124103 (2020). Single C-to-T substitution using engineered APOBEC3G-nCas9 base editors with minimum genome- and transcriptome-wide off-target effects. (S.S. Lee, N. Ding, Y.D. Sun, T.L. Yuan, J. Li, Q.C. Yuan, L.Z. Liu, J. Yang, Q. Wang, A.B.K., I.B. Hilton, IB, E.W. Zuo, and X. Gao), Sci. Adv. 6, eaba1773 (2020). Stochastic Mechanism of Cell-Size Regulation in Bacteria. (H. Teimouri, R. Mukherjee and A.B.K.), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8777-8782 (2020). Different Time Scales in Dynamic Systems with Multiple Exits. (G. Bel, A. Zilman and A.B.K.), J. Chem. Phys. 153, 054107 (2020). Relaxation Times of Ligand-Receptor Complex Formation Control T Cell Activation. (H. Teimouri and A.B.K.), Biophys. J. 119, 1-8 (2020). Direct Detection of Molecular Intermediates from First-Passage Times. (A.L. Thorneywork, J. Gladrow, Y. Qing, M. Rico-Pasto, F. Ritort, H. Bayley, A.B.K. and U.F. Keyser), Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz4642 (2020). Biased Random Walk in Crowded Environment: Breaking Uphill/Downhill Symmetry of Transition Times. (J. Shin, A.M. Berezhkovskii and A.B.K.), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 4530-4535 (2020). Theoretical Investigations of the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions on Nanocatalysts with Multiple Active Sites. (S. Chaudhury, D. Singh and A.B.K.), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 2330-2335 (2020).