Tel.: 301-496-7098
Fax: 301-496-0825
E-mail: bramirez@nih.gov
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Protein structure and dynamics as it pertains to function and regulation
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Chemistry 1997
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Thesis Advisors: William A. Goddard, Harry B. Gray and Jack Richards
Thesis Title: The CuA center of Cytochrome Oxidase: Electronic Structure
and Electron-Tunneling Pathways
B.S., Chemistry 1992
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Post-Doctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA , 1997-present
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Institutes of Health IRTA Fellowship, 1997-98
National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
1998-2000
PUBLICATIONS
Publications from the Bax Group
Previous Publications:
DiBilio, A.J., Ramirez, B.E., Dennison, A., Sykes, G., Gray, H.B.:
Electron Transfer in Ruthenium-Modified Plastocyanin, J. Amer. Chem. Soc.,
vol. 120, 1998, pp. 7551-7556.
Vila, A.J., Ramirez, B.E., DiBilio, A.J., Mizoguchi, T.J., Richards, J.H., Gray, H.B.: Paramagnetic NMR Spectroscopy of Cobalt(II) and Copper(II) Derivatives of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa His46Asp Azurin, Inorg. Chem., vol. 36, 1997, pp. 4567-4570.
Ramirez, B.E., Malmstrom, B.G., Winkler, J.W., Gray, H.B.: The Currents of Life: The Terminal Electron-Transfer Complex of Respiration, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 92, 1995, pp. 11949-11951.
Luthey-Schulten, Z., Ramirez, B.E., Wolynes, P.G.: Helix-Coil, Liquid-Coil,
and Spin-Glass Transitions of a Collapsed Heteropolymer, J. Phys. Chem.,
vol. 99, 1995, pp. 2177-2185.