Nucleic acid conformational energy landscape Nilesh Banavali

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health, SUNY Albany


Research Interests

RNA structural dynamics and RNA-protein interaction in the RNAi machinery. More information on Wadsworth Center page


Selected Publications

Free energy landscape of A-DNA to B-DNA conversion in aqueous solution (2005), N. Banavali and B. Roux, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 6866-6876 (more ...)

Reevaluation of stereoelectronic contributions to the conformational properties of the phosphodiester and N3'-phosphoramidate moieties of nucleic acids (2001), N. Banavali and A. D. MacKerell Jr., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 6747-6755 (more ...)

Development and current status of the CHARMM force field for nucleic acids (2000-2001), A. D. MacKerell Jr., N. Banavali, and N. Foloppe, Biopolymers, 56, 257-265 (more ...)