Nikolay Dokholyan

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Principal Investigator: Dokholyan Lab, Department of Computational and Experimental Biophysics, University of North Carolina

EDUCATION:
1999-2002 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA. Area of research: Biophysics
1999 PhD, Boston University, USA (Physics)
1994 MS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (Physics)
1992 BS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (Physics)

HONORS AND AWARDS:
2004-2006 March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
2004 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill IBM Junior Faculty Development Award
2003 Recipient of a UNC Research Council Award
1999-2002 NIH postdoctoral fellowship
1998-1999 NIH Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Traineeship
1995, 1998, 2001 NSF Young Scientist Travel Award
1994 'Red Diploma'
1990-1994 Recipient of Honorary Stipend, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The bottom up approach to understanding the evolution of organisms is by studying molecular evolution. With the large number of protein structures identified in the past decades, we discover peculiar patterns that nature imprints on protein structural space in the course of evolution. By understanding the cause of these patterns, we attempt to glance at the very origin of life.

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