User:Mark Blenner

Mark Blenner

Mark Blenner

Immune Disease Institute
Harvard Medical School
Timothy Springer's Lab
3 Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115
blenner@idi.harvard.edu

Previously, I worked in the Banta Lab at Columbia University.

Currently, I am a Research Fellow in the Springer Lab at the Immune Disease Institute affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital.

Education

• 2009, PhD, Columbia University (Chemical Engineering)
• 2007, MS, Columbia University (Chemical Engineering)
• 2004, BS, Manhattan College (Chemical Engineering)

Research interests

1. Protein Engineering
2. Conformational Control of Protein Activity
3. Biological Conformational Switches
4. Directed Evolution & High Throughput Technologies
5. Single-molecule Biophysics

Publications

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1. Paper1 Blenner, M., Shur, O., Szilvay, G., Cropeck, D., Banta, S., “Calcium induced folding of a Repeat in Toxin (RTX)- Domain Via C-Terminal Entropic Stabilization” Under Review, Journal of Biological Chemistry.
2. Paper2 Szilvay, G., Blenner, M., Cropeck, D., Banta, S. “A FRET-based Method for Probing the Conformational Behavior of an Intrinsically Disordered Repeat Domain from Bordetella pertussis Adenylate Cyclase” Under Review, Biochemistry.
3. Paper3 pmid=18218715
4. Paper4 pmid=17376876

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