User:David E. Volk

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All truth passes through three stages:

• First, it is ridiculed.
• Second, it is violently opposed.
• Third, it is accepted as being self-evident

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

David E. Volk Status    last updated January 24, 2008    [edit plan here] Get your own infobox! • Group Status ~ Plans ~ Short term plans 1. antibiotics articles 2. decide what goes into chem_infobox 3. biosynthesis sections for all 20 amino acids Longer-term plans 1. Work on more Music articles 2. Work on steroid and all related articles ~ Roles and notes ~ Roles in the system 1. Editorial Council member 2. Editorial Personnel Administrator (EPA) 3. Chemistry Editor/Author 4. Biology Editor/Author 5. Music Author Notes to self Click edit above to start these notes Public notes :   Chemistry Workgroup    Status    last updated January 21, 2008    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans 1. improve amino acid pages, biosynthesis 2. improve steroid and improve/create related pages My longer-term plans 1. create pages all major metabolism cycles, reactions ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles 1. Editor 2. Author 3. "Checklister" My notes 1. finish amino acid synthesis text and structures Public notes: Wish to make pages for all major metabolic pathways and chemicals therein. Also, we need pages, with help from Health Sciences folks, for every prescription drug available. Chemistry/Biology Articles I Created Acetaldehyde Acetic acid Acetone Acid Alanine Aldosterone Androsteinedione Anion Arginine Aristolochic acid Arthralgia Arthrodynia Aspartic acid Asparagine Bioinformatics Boron Boyle's law Carboxylic acid Cross product Cysteine Cystine Diazinon DEET Deuterium Enantiomer Ester Estradiol Estrogen Ether Flavivirus Fuming sulfuric acid Glutamic acid Glutamine Hippurate Histidine Hydrogen/Isotopes Ideal gas law Iron/Isotopes Isoleucine Leucine Lewis acid Lewis acid-base theory List of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments Lysine Methionine NADPH Nitroglycerin Nitromethane Neuralgia NMR active elements Phenylalanine Phosphate Phosphoric acid Phosphorus (a CZ:New Draft of the Week) Progesterone Proline Protein structure Serine Steroid Testosterone Threonine Tryptophan Tyrosine Sulfur dioxide Sulfuric acid Texas Hold 'Em Valine West Nile virus Music Article I Created Cover band Rex Bell Rex Bell/Discography REO Speedwagon REO Speedwagon/Discography Rush Hayes Carll Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt/Discography (this was work!) Physics/Mathematics Articles I Created Kirchhoff's current law Kirchhoff's voltage law Law of cosines Law of sines Areas of Expertise Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy Protein NMR Structures West Nile virus ED3 Omsk Hemorhagic fever ED3 Dengue 4 virus Yellow fever virus DNA Structures Benzo[a]pyrene-adducted (carcinogenic) DNA Oxidatively Damaged DNA Thioaptamer DNA Metabonomics/Metabolomics Quantum Mechanics DNA:DNA Interactions DNA:Metal Interactions Lewis Acid Chemistry AlCl3 and Et2AlCl mediated ring opening reactions SnCl4 mediated ring opening reactions Protein Expression & Purification Molecular Mechanics Areas of General Competence Physical/Organic Chemistry Molecular Biology Structural Biology Physics Mathematics Computer Programming Pascal Perl C++ MAcromolecular Purification Methods Surface Plasmon Resonance (Biacore) Binding thermodynamics and kinetics Hobbies Bass Guitar Texas Holdem' Bird Watching Education & Background David E. Volk holds a bachelors degree in mathematics and physics from Minot State (ND) University, and a Ph.D (1995) in physical organic chemistry from North Dakota State University. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center under Leonard Spicer and is currently a research scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. Currently his work focuses on studying the solution structures of DNA and proteins that are important to human health or diseases using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. These studies involve the West Nile, Yellow Fever, Omsk Hemorhaggic Fever and Dengue fever viruses. Other studies involved both structure and quantum mechanics studies of damaged DNA, such as oxidized DNA or adducted DNA. Most recently, he has initiated many metabonomics studies at UTMB. Visit Dr. Volk's UTMB Page for more information and links to his publications.