Associate Professor of Physics
UMC
| Office: | 308 Physics Building |
| Phone: | 573-882-7241 |
| E-mail: | kosztini@missouri.edu |
| Webpage: | http://web.missouri.edu/~kosztini/ |
| Biographical Information: | Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997 |
Research Interests
Theoretical and Computation Biological Physics
The main motivation and goal of my research in biological physics
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.
The type of problems I am currently working on are related to: mechanical
force generation and signaling mechanisms in G-proteins, force transduction
by motor proteins, effect of static and dynamic disorder (thermal fluctuations)
on energy transfer in light harvesting proteins, mass and charge transport
in transmembrane channel proteins, reconstruction of potential of mean
force from non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, and aggregation
phenomena in biological systems.
Selected Publications
Ioan Kosztin, Robijn Bruinsma, Paul O'lague, and Klaus Schulten, ``Mechanical force generation by G-proteins'',
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99, 3575 (2002)
Ana Damjanovic, Ioan Kosztin, Ulrich Kleinekathofer, and Klaus Schulten, ``Excitons in a Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting System: A Combined Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Chemistry and Polaron Model Study'', Physical Review E 65, 31919 (2002).
Qijin Chen, Ioan Kosztin, and K. Levin, ``Unusual thermodynamical and transport signatures of the BCS to Bose-Einstein crossover scenario below Tc'', Physical Review Letters 85, 2801 (2000).
Ioan Kosztin, Qijin Chen, Ying-Jer Kao, and K. Levin, ``Pair Fluctuations, Collective Modes and Gauge Invariance in the BCS - Bose-Einstein Crossover Scenario'', Physical Review B 61, 11662 (2000).
Boldizsár Jankó, Ioan Kosztin, K. Levin, M. R. Norman and Douglas J. Scalapino, ``Incoherent Pair Tunneling as a Probe of the Cuprate Pseudogap'', Physical Review Letters 82, 4304 (1999).
Qijin Chen, Ioan Kosztin, Boldizsár Jankó and K. Levin, ``Pairing Fluctuation Theory of Superconducting Properties in Underdoped to Overdoped Cuprates'', Physical Review Letters 81, 4708 (1998).
Ioan Kosztin, Qijin Chen, Boldizsár Jankó and K. Levin, ``Relationship between the pseudo- and superconducting gaps:
Effects of residual pairing correlations below Tc'', Physical Review B 58, R5936 (1998).
Ioan Kosztin and Anthony J. Leggett, ``Nonlocal Effects on the Magnetic Penetration Depth in d-wave Superconductors'', Physical Review Letters 79, 135 (1997).