Paul Nerenberg
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
 
Email: pnerenberg@kecksci.claremont.edu
Office: Center Court F2
Phone: 909-607-8310
Office Hours:
Web Site: http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/pnerenberg
   
Educational Background:
B.S., Physics, Johns Hopkins University (2000-2004)
Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-2010)
Postdoc, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), UC Berkeley (2010-2011)
Courses Taught:
Research Interests:
Computational biophysics
Thesis Topics:
 
Selected Publications List: Click to open new window.
1.   Nerenberg PS, Jo B, So C, Tripathy A, and Head-Gordon T . (2012). Optimizing Solute-Water van der Waals Interactions to Reproduce Solvation Free Energies. Journal of Physical Chemistry B   : in press. Article
 
2.   Ball KA, Phillips AH, Nerenberg PS, Fawzi NL, Wemmer DE, Head-Gordon T . (2011). Homogenous and Heterogeneous Tertiary Structure Ensembles of Amyloid-β Peptides. Biochemistry   50: 7612-7628. Article
 
3.   Nerenberg PS and Head-Gordon T . (2011). Optimizing Protein-Solvent Force Fields to Reproduce Intrinsic Conformational Preferences of Model Peptides. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation   7: 1220-1230. Article
 
4.   Salsas-Escat R*, Nerenberg PS*, and Stultz CM . (2010). Cleavage Site Specificity and Conformational Selection in Type I Collagen Degradation. Biochemistry   49: 4147-4158. Article
 
5.   Chen MM, Bartlett AI, Nerenberg PS, Friel CT, Hackenberger CPR, Stultz CM, Radford SE, and Imperiali B . (2010). Perturbing the folding energy landscape of the bacterial immunity protein Im7 by site-specific N-linked glycosylation. PNAS   107: 22528-22533. Article