Ioan Kosztin

Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
                      kosztini@missouri.edu

Biological Physics

Education 

Awards

2012:  MU Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity
2010:  P-G. de Gennes Prize - awarded at the international conference "From Solid State To Bio-Physics",
                                                  Dubrovnik,Croatia
2010:  Physics Alumni Faculty Fellow, University of Missouri

Research Interests in Theoretical and Computational Biophysics 

The main motivation and goal of my research in biophysics is to understand how living matter is organized and functions at different (e.g., atomic or microscopic, sub-cellular or mesoscopic) levels. In my research, I employ and develop computational methods widely used in molecular modeling (e.g., large scale, parallel molecular dynamics simulations, molecular visualization, stochastic modeling and analysis), as well as, analytical methods used in theoretical physics.

Topics of my research include: theoretical and computational modeling of peptide-lipid membrane interactions, molecular and ion transport through channel proteins and artificial nanopores, reconstruction of free energy profiles in biomolecular systems from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, effect of dynamic disorder on the spectral and optical properties of chromophores in pigment-protein complexes, biomechanical properties and dynamics of multicellular systems, anomalous dynamics of lipid atoms and molecules in phospholipid bilayers, and molecular dynamics based quality assessment of predicted protein structures. 

Selected Publications