Postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University
MSU
218 Biochemistry, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
work phone:+1-517-353-6743
e-mail: kasia(at)msu.edu
October 1, 2003 -September 30, 2005:
Research fellow in
School of Computational Sciences at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study
KIAS
207-43 Cheongnyangni 2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-722 Korea
EDUCATION
September 2003:
Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from the
University
of Gdansk , Poland. The Ph.D. was conducted under the supervision of
Prof. J.A. Liwo, University of Gdansk, titled a ``Study of association of models of amino acid side chains in water
using molecular dynamic simulations``.
February 2001-January 2003:
Postgraduate Studies in Mathematics and Computer Sciences,
University of Gdansk, Poland.
September 1997:
M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of
Gdansk, Poland. The M.Sc was conducted under the supervision of
Prof. J.A. Liwo, University of Gdansk, titled an ``Energy minima of ice structures
in two representative pairwise potentials of interaction of water molecules
used biomolecular simulations``.
K. Maksimiak , M. Zavodszky A.W. Stumpff-Kane, M. Feig
Improved scoring of protein structures through automated scoring function assessment. Proteins, 2008 (in preparation)
A.W. Stumpff-Kane, K. Maksimiak , M. Lee, M. Feig
Sampling of Near-Native Protein Conformations during Protein Structure Refinement Using a Coarse-Grained Model, Normal Modes and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Proteins, 2007 (accepted)
M. Makowski, A. Liwo, K. Maksimiak , J.
Makowska, H.A. Scheraga
Simple physics-based analytical formulas for the potentials of
mean force of the interaction of amino acid side chains in water. II. Tests
with simple spherical systems. J. Phys. Chem. B, 111(11), 2917-2924, 2007
PDF
K. Maksimiak, J. Lee, C. Czaplewski, S.Y. Kim, J. Lee
Design of a potential-energy function for protein folding study. FEBS Journal272, 381-381 Suppl., 2005
K. Maksimiak , S. Rodziewicz-Motowido,
C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo, H. A. Scheraga
Molecular Simulation Study of the Potentials of Mean Force for the
Interactions between Models of Like-Charged and between Charged and
Nonpolar Amino Acid Side Chains in Water. J. Phys. Chem. B, 107(48), 13496-13504, 2003
PDF
P. Arlukowicz, E. Biernat, J. Ciarkowski, C. Czaplewski, M. Groth,
R. Kazmierkiewicz, A. Liwo, K. Maksimiak , M. Nowacka, S. Oldziej,
S. Rodziewicz, E. Wozniak,
Molecular simulations with high-performance computers. T.A.S.K.
Quarterly, 1, 21-37, 1997
COMMUNICATIONS
K.Maksimiak , A.Liwo, S.Rackovsky, K.T.No, K.H.Cho, H.A.Scheraga
Parametrization of directional potentials of the water-water and water-
peptides interactions, 7th Polish Symposium ``Conformations of
Peptides,
Proteins and Nucelic Acids``, Karpacz, Poland, May 29-31, 1998, Abstract
K.Maksimiak , A.Liwo, R.J.Wawak,J. Pillardy
Global optimization of crystal ice structures with pairwise potentials,
8th Polish Symposium ``Conformations of Peptides,
Proteins and Nucelic Acids``, Rynia, Poland, May 24-28, 1999, Abstract
A. Liwo, J.Y. Lee, J. Pillardy, C. Czaplewski, D.R. Ripoll, S. Oldziej,
S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo, K. Maksimiak ,
P. Arlukowicz, U. Dobrzanska,
H.A. Scheraga. UNRES force field for protein structure prediction
based on energetic criteria, 1st Polish Symposium ``MD simulations
in Poland``, Gdansk, Poland, September 28-30, 2000, Abstract
K. Maksimiak , S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo, C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo
Molecular Simulations Study of the Potentials of Mean Force
of the Interactions Between Charged Amino-Acid Side Chains in Water, 7th Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference ECCC7,
Northern Illinois University, April 2-30, 2001, Abstract No 22
K. Maksimiak , S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo, C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo
Molecular Simulations Study of the Potentials of Mean Force
of the Interactions Between Charged Amino-Acid Side Chains
with different charge in water, Parallel Computing in Biomolecular
Simulations, Gdansk, Poland, September 1-3, 2001, Abstract No 6
K. Maksimiak , S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo,
C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo
Molecular Simulations Study of the Potentials of Mean Force
of the Interactions Between Charged Amino-Acid Side Chains
with different charge in water, 6th World Congress Of Theoretically
Oriented Chemists, Lugano, Switzerland, August 4-9, 2002,
Abstract No PB 309
K. Maksimiak , S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo,
C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo
Molecular Dynamics Study of the Potentials of Mean Force
of Interactions Between Amino-Acid Side Chain with Different Charge
in Water, 3rd KIAS Conference on Protein Structure and Function:
Folding Mechanism, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, KIAS, Seoul, Korea,
September 29 - October 1, 2003, Abstract
K. Maksimiak , Seoung-Yeon Kim, Jooyoung Lee
Design of a Protein Potential Energy Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry,
Gyeongju, Korea, February 15-20, 2004, Abstract P111
1st Pacific-Rim International Conference on Protein Science,
Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 14-18, 2004
K. Maksimiak , Seung-Yeon Kim, Julian Lee, Jooyoung Lee
Design of a potential-energy function for protein folding studies, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Complex System,
KIAS, Seoul, Korea, June 29 - July 2, 2004, Abstract P-29
K. Maksimiak , Julian Lee, C. Czaplewski,
Seung-Yeon Kim, Jooyoung Lee,
Design of a potential-energy function for protein folding studies 4th KIAS Conference on Protein Structure and Function:
Folding Mechanism, Proteomics and Bioinformatics,
KIAS, Seoul, Korea, September 20-22, 2004, Abstract P-13
K. Maksimiak , Julian Lee, C. Czaplewski,
Seung-Yeon Kim, Jooyoung Lee,
Design of a potential-energy function for protein folding studies Annual Meeting of Korean Physical Society,
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, April 22-23, 2005, Abstract Fp-023
K. Maksimiak , Julian Lee, C. Czaplewski,
Seung-Yeon Kim, Jooyoung Lee,
Design of a potential-energy function for protein folding studies 30th FEBS Congress and 9th IUBMB Conference The Protein World,
Budapest, Hungary, July 2-7, 2005, Abstract G2-079P
K. Maksimiak , A. Stumpff-Kane, M. Feig,
The selection of successful scoring functions within the structure
refinement protocols 32nd Steenbock Symposium: Dynamics of Proteins and Macromolecular Assembles,
Madison WI, USA, May 18-21, 2006, Abstract 22
K. Maksimiak , A. Stumpff-Kane, M. Feig,
Sampling and Scoring Strategies in an Iterated Protocol for Protein Structure Prediction 7th Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove CA, USA, November 26-30, 2006, Abstract
