Dr. Dong Xu is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational Science from San Diego State
University and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of California - San
Diego. He has research experience in the area of molecular dynamics simulations of
microbe-host and microbe-inhibitor interactions, computer-aided drug design, and quantum
mechanics simulations. Dr. Xu has received grants from the Department of Defense and
National Institute for Health, and published articles in such journals as the Journal of
Computer-Aided Molecular Design and Journal of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Xu is
currently working to establish a research group at Boise State which will focus on
interdisciplinary computational research projects at the interface of chemistry, biology,
physics and pharmacology.

Articles

Distinct Glycan Topology for Avian and Human Sialopentasaccharide Receptor Analogues upon Binding Different Hemagglutinins: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective (with E. Newhouse, R. Amaro, H. Pao, L. Cheng, P. Markwick, J. McCammon, W. Li, and P. Arzberger), Journal of Molecular Biology (2009)

Hemagglutinin (HA) binds to sialylated glycans exposed on the host cell surface in the initial...

 

Presentations

MM-GBSA-Based Calculation of Binding Energies of Hemagglutinin-Glycan Interactions Involved in Avian Flu Virus Infection Initiation, eCheminfo 2009 Drug Discovery & Development InterAction Meeting (2009)