Publications

• GCM da Hora & MI Oh, MC Mifflin, L Digal, AG Roberts, JMJ Swanson (2024). Lasso Peptides: Exploring the Folding Landscape of Nature’s Smallest Interlocked Motifs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Published, 01/02/2024.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c10126
• MI Oh & GCA da Hora, JMJ Swanson (2023). tICA-Metadynamics for Identifying Slow Dynamics in Membrane Permeation. J. Chem. Theory Comput. Vol. 19, 8886-8900. Published, 11/09/2023.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00526
• "Tld1 is a novel regulator of triglyceride lipolysis that demarcates a lipid droplet subpopulation." Speer NO, Braun JR, Reynolds EG, Swanson JMJ, Henne WM. J Cell Biol (2024) 223 (1): e202303026. Published, 10/27/2023.
  https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202303026
• JDM Nguyen & GCA da Hora, JMJ Swanson (2023). Mycolactone A vs. B: Multiscale Simulations Reveal the Roles of Localization and Association in Isomer-Specific Toxicity. Toxins. Vol. 15, 486-1-21. Published, 08/02/2023.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins15080486
• da Hora GCA & Nguyen JDM, Swanson JMJ (2022). Can membrane composition traffic toxins? Mycolactone and preferential membrane interactions. Biophysical journal. Vol. 121, 4260-4270. Published, 11/01/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2022.10.019
• Kim S & Swanson JMJ, Voth GA (2022). Computational Studies of Lipid Droplets. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 126, 2145-2154. Published, 03/09/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00292
• Swanson JMJ (2022). Multiscale kinetic analysis of proteins. Curr Opin Struct Biol. Vol. 72, 169-175. Published, 02/01/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2021.11.005
• Olarte MJ, Swanson JMJ, Walther TC & Farese RV (2022). The CYTOLD and ERTOLD pathways for lipid droplet-protein targeting. Trends in biochemical sciences. Vol. 47, 39-51. Published, 01/01/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2021.08.007
• Yue Z, Bernardi A, Li C, Mironenko AV & Swanson JMJ (2021). Toward a Multipathway Perspective: pH-Dependent Kinetic Selection of Competing Pathways and the Role of the Internal Glutamate in Cl-/H+ Antiporters. The journal of physical chemistry. B. Vol. 125, 7975-7984. Published, 07/01/2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c03304
• Bernardi A & Swanson JMJ (2021). CycFlowDec: A Python module for decomposing flow networks using simple cycles. SoftwareX. Vol. 14. Published, 06/01/2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100676
• Kim S, Oh MI & Swanson JMJ (2021). Stressed Lipid Droplets: How Neutral Lipids Relieve Surface Tension and Membrane Expansion Drives Protein Association. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 125, 5572-5586. Published, 05/01/2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01795
• Aydin F, Durumeric AEP, da Hora GCA, Nguyen JDM, Oh MI & Swanson JMJ (2021). Improving the accuracy and convergence of drug permeation simulations via machine-learned collective variables. The Journal of chemical physics. Vol. 155, 045101. Published, 04/01/2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0055489
• Kim S & Swanson JMJ (2020). The Surface and Hydration Properties of Lipid Droplets. Biophysical journal. Vol. 119, 1958-1969. Published, 11/01/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2020.10.001
• Olarte MJ, Kim S, Sharp ME, Swanson JMJ, Farese RV & Walther TC (2020). Determinants of Endoplasmic Reticulum-to-Lipid Droplet Protein Targeting. Developmental cell. Vol. 54, 471-487. Published, 08/01/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2020.07.001
• Li C & Swanson JMJ (2020). Understanding and Tracking the Excess Proton in Ab Initio Simulations; Insights from IR Spectra. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 124, 5696-5708. Published, 06/01/2020.
  https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c03615
• Z Wang & JMJ Swanson, GA Voth (2020). Local Conformational Dynamics Regulating Transport Properties of a Cl-/H+ Antiporter. J. Comp. Chem. Vol. 41, 513-519. Published, 03/01/2020.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31633205
• Z Yue & C Li, GA Voth, JMJ Swanson (2019). Dynamic Protonation Dramatically Affects the Membrane Permeability of Drug-Like Molecules. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Vol. 141, 13421-13433. Published, 09/16/2019.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382734
• L.C. Watkins & R Liang, JMJ Swanson, WR DeGrado, GA Voth (2019). Proton Induced Conformational and Hydration Dynamics in the Influenza A M2 Channel. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Vol. 141, 11667-11676. Published, 07/12/2019.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31264413
• F. Aydin & R. Sun, JMJ. Swanson (2019). Mycolactone Toxin Membrane Permeation: Atomistic versus Coarse-Grained MARTINI Simulations. Biophys. J. Vol. 117, 87-98. Published, 05/21/2019.
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31174850

Presentations

• Lipids at Wayne State Seminar Series. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2022.
• Johns Hopkins University, Invited Seminar (Baltimore, MD). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2022.
• Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Challenges for Theory and Experiment. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2022.
• Lipid Droplet FASEB: Session Chair and Invited Speaker (Ashville, NC). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2022.
• Molecular Biophysics of Membranes (Tahoe, CA). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2022.
• ACS: 2 Symposia (San Diego, CA). Contributed Talk, Presented, 03/2022.
• Biophysical Society: Session Chair, Poster Judge and Speaker (San Francisco, CA). Contributed Talk, Presented, 02/2022.
• ACS: 3 Symposia. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2019.
• German Biophys Soc: The workings of ion transporters and channels (Berlin, Germany). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2019.
  https://www.dgfb.org/de/dgfb-tagungen/cellular-bio...
• Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins (Santa Fe, NM). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2019.
  https://www.membranes-santafe.org/
• Institute of Biophysical Dynamics Seminar (Chicago, IL). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2019.

Research Groups

• Myong In Oh, Postdoc. Chemistry. 08/01/2020 - 05/06/2022.
• Austen Bernardi, Postdoc. Chemistry. 05/18/2020 - 12/10/2021.
• Dudu Tong, Postdoc. Chemistry. 02/08/2020 - 11/01/2021.
• Gabriel da Hora, Postdoc. Chemistry. 10/01/2019 - present.