Camilo Aponte-Santamaría
Graduated in February 2011
Doctoral Thesis Project
Understanding the molecular machinery of aquaporins through molecular dynamics simulations
Doctoral Thesis Committee
University Education
- 09/2007-02/2011 Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems
- 08/2005-08/2007 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Master, Physics, thesis: "Brownian Dynamics simulations of the rotation of the F1-ATPase molecular motor"
- 02/2000-12/2004 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Diplom, thesis: "The Gramicidin A Channel: A comparison between an elemental
permeation model and a Brownian Dynamics simulation"
Publications
- Hub JS, Aponte-Santamaría C, Grubmüller H, de Groot BL. Voltage-regulated water flux through aquaporin channels in silico. Biophys. J.2010 Dec 15;99(12):L97-9.
- Aponte-Santamaría C, Hub JS, de Groot BL. Dynamics and energetics of solute permeation through the Plasmodium falciparum aquaglyceroporin. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2010 Sep 21;12(35):10246-54.
- Wolf MG, Hoefling M, Aponte-Santamaría C, Grubmüller H, Groenhof G. g_membed: Efficient insertion of a membrane protein into an equilibriated lipid bilayer with minimal perturbation. J. Comp.Chem. 2010 Aug;31(11):2169-74.
- Fischer G, Kosinska-Eriksson U, Aponte-Santamaría C, Palmgren M, Geijer C, Hedfalk K, Hohmann S, de Groot BL, Neutze R, Lindkvist-Petersson K. Crystal Structure of a Yeast Aquaporin at 1.15 Angstrom Reveals a Novel Gating Mechanism. PLoS Biology. 2009 Jun;7(6):e1000130.
Talks
06/2010: "Dynamics and energetics of the solute permeation through the Plasmodium falciparum malaria aquaglyceroporin", International Workshop on Epithelial Transport, 25-27 June 2010, Austria.
02/2010: "The Gating Mechanism of Yeast Aquaporin Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations" 54th annual meeting of the biophysical society, San Francisco.
