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Davis Zakary
Current Undergraduate Student
current undergraduate
Jonathan.d.zakary [ at ] vanderbilt.edu
Research Description:
I study computational peptide design in areas that concern drug development and discovery. Specifically, I focus on non-canonical amino acids and their potential to drastically increase the available sidechain conformational space. A larger conformational space enables creation of novel therapeutics with greater binding affinity than the body’s naturally occurring proteins. Such therapeutics can be used to modulate abnormal protein-protein interactions and consequently eliminate the symptoms of many diseases.
Mentored by Oanh Vu
Center for Structural Biology
465 21st Ave South, BIOSCI/MRBIII
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN