Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | University of Maryland

12 October

Order, Disorder and the Entropic Bond: The Truth About Entropy

Amanda Souna

Lecturer

New computer simulations from UMD reveal that much like earthquakes cell “quakes”—sudden restructuring of the cytoskeleton, or scaffolding, inside animal cells—is caused by the slow buildup and rapid release of mechanical energy. This image shows a simulated model cytoskeleton (red, green and blue mesh) contained within a cell membrane depicted in light blue. Click image to download hi-res version. (Image credit Haoran Ni, University of Maryland)

Cell “Quakes” May Help Cells Respond to the Outside World

UMD researchers explain how recently discovered earthquake-like disturbances occur in living cells.

Animal cells get their structural integrity from their cytoskeleton, a shapeshifting mes

- 30 September 2021

7 December

Transient Lipid-bound States of Spike Protein Heptad Repeats Suggest a Model for SARS-CoV-2 Membrane Fusion

23 November

Role of S-Palmitoylation in Viral and Antiviral Activity

9 November

Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation of the EphA2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase

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2 November

Directed Evolution of Multivalent Glyco-biopolymers

26 October

The Immunomodulatory Effects of IgA Glycosylation

12 October

Structural and Biophysical Basis of Molecular Mimicry and Host Hijacking by SARS-CoV-2 Spike

5 October

From Single Cell Analysis to Spatial Metabolomics

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