Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is a professor of biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1990. His main area of research is the development of solid-state NMR and its applications to non-soluble, non-crystalline chemical and biological solids. [ [http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=3190 Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique] , NewsService, University of Michigan ] [ [http://ase.tufts.edu/chemistry/kumar/group/html/8537sci2.html Fluorous Peptides Get Ready To Heal] , Science/Technology, 85, 36 (2007) ] He is known for the development of solid-state NMR methods (such as USEME, PISEMA, PITANSEMA, HIMSELF, etc.) and as a researcher of membrane-associated peptides and proteins, an organizer of international symposia, and author of a book on NMR Spectroscopy of biological solids. [ [http://www.internetchemie.info/news/2007/sep07/blowtorch.html Revealing the workings of 'Mother Nature's blowtorch'] , by Internetchemistry.com ] [ [http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6522 New insights into cause of diabetes emerge from U-M research] NewsService, University of Michigan ] . He was also involved in the characterization of new nanomaterials. [ [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071004143114.htm New Plastic Is Strong As Steel, Transparent] , ScienceDaily ] He teaches Chemistry, Biophysics and NMR to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan. [ [http://www.ur.umich.edu/0708/Apr07_08/02.php Football illustrates biological interactions] , NewsService, University of Michigan ]

References

His books

*"NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Solids", 2005, Publisher: CRC Press, ISBN 1574444964
*"Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances" (editor), 2007, Publisher: Springer; ISBN 1402053274

Key publications

# Xu J, Struppe J, Ramamoorthy A. Two-dimensional homonuclear chemical shift correlation established by the cross-relaxation driven spin diffusion in solids. J. Chem. Phys. 128 (2008) 052308.
# Dürr UHN, Yamamoto K, Im SC, Waskell L, Ramamoorthy A, Solid-State NMR Reveals Structural and Dynamical Properties of a Membrane-Anchored Electron-Carrier Protein, Cytochrome b(5), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (2007) 6670-6671.
# Dürr UHN, Waskell L, Ramamoorthy A. The cytochromes P450 and b5 and their reductases-Promising targets for structural studies by advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy, Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1768 (2007) 3235-3259.
# Podsiadlo P, Kaushik AK, Arruda EM, Waas AM, Sup B, Shim, Xu J, Nandivada H, Pumplin BG, Lahann J, Ramamoorthy A, Kotov NA, Ultrastrong and Stiff Layered Polymer Nanocomposites, Science. 318 (2007) 80-83.
# Dürr UHN, Sudheendra US, Ramamoorthy A, LL-37, the only human member of the cathelicidin family of antimicrobial peptides, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1758 (2006) 1408-1425.
# Dhople V, Krukemeyer A, Ramamoorthy A, The human beta-defensin-3, an antibacterial peptide with multiple biological functions, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1758 (2006) 1499-1512.
# Dvinskikh SV, Durr U, Yamamoto K, Ramamoorthy A, A high-resolution solid-state NMR approach for the structural studies of bicelles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (2006) 6326-7.

External links

* [http://www.umich.edu/~ramslab/ Ramamoorthy Lab]
* [http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/ramamoorthy/ Chemistry@Michigan]
* [http://www.umich.edu/~biophys/facultstaff/research/ramamoorthy.html Biophysics@Michigan]