Characterization of the Dynamics of Biomacromolecules Using Rotating-Frame Spin Relaxation NMR Spectroscopy

Arthur G. Palmer, III, is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Nancy L. Thompson from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with Peter E. Wright at the Scripps Research Institute. His research interests are NMR spin relaxation and molecular motions in biological macromolecules.

Francesca Massi is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry with John E. Straub from Boston University and was a postdoctoral fellow with Arthur G. Palmer at Columbia University. Her research interests are protein function and dynamics studied with NMR spin relaxation experiments and computer simulations.