Jonathan Dinman to Direct the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Jonathan Dinman, a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), has been named director of the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), effective November 1, 2024. Located in the heart of Maryland’s biotechnology corridor in Montgomery County, IBBR...
SPT Lunch & Learn - December 5th
You are invited! Join SPT Labtelch at IBBR for their upcoming Lunch & Learn on Structural Biology where you’ll explore how their instruments enhance your crystallography workflows. Discover their "Perfect Bundle" including their cutting-edge mosquito® and dragonfly® crystal instrumentation, the apricot® S3 multi-channel pipettor, and the MXone mixer.
IBBR Researchers Participate in NIH Established Pandemic Preparedness Research Network
The University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) received a $2.95M grant subaward from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct cutting-edge research aimed at developing vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to combat high-priority viral...
About IBBR
IBBR is a joint research enterprise of the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
IBBR leverages state-of-art integrative methods for bioanalytical, biophysical and structural characterization of biomolecules: cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, x-ray crystallography, small angle neutron and x-ray scattering and mass spectrometry.
IBBR researchers seek to advance therapeutic development, biomanufacturing, and state-of-the-art measurement technologies, to support accelerated delivery of safe and effective medicines to the public.
IBBR is a major initiative and supported in part by the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) , an initiative designed to achieve innovation and impact through collaboration.
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IBBR Commons
Sophisticated state-of-the-art instrumentation and facilities, and in-house expertise located in shared space and dedicated to advance research, support collaboration and foster innovation of methods. Instrumentation and facilities include tools for high-resolution structural biology, bioanalytical and biophysical measurement, protein engineering and cell culture, advanced computation including artificial intelligence and deep learning methods, and general laboratory services. These capabilities and advanced training are available to IBBR scientists and collaborators.
IBBR Postdoc Program
The IBBR Postdoc Program (IPP) focuses on collaborative research involving basic science and technology development that advances therapeutic development, vaccine development, and biomanufacturing. IPP Fellow project teams are designed with a combination of the IPP Fellow career goals and priorities of project mentors who can be from academic, government, and/or industrial laboratories throughout the University of Maryland, NIST and the I-270 corridor.
NMRPipe
IBBR is home to NMRPipe, a popular collection of programs and scripts for manipulating multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data. The use of NMRPipe is noted in roughly 40% of all NMR structures accepted into the Protein Data Bank.
Upcoming Events
NIST Group Meeting; Raman Hlushko
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 11:00am
NIST Group Meeting; Micah Smith
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 11:00am
NIST Group Meeting; Vamsi Bolla
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - 11:00am
Recent Publications
Isoform-Specific vs Isoform-Universal Drug Targeting: A New Targeting Paradigm Illustrated by New Anti-ICAM-1 Antibodies.
Drug targeting can be achieved by coupling drugs or their carriers to affinity molecules, mostly antibodies (Abs), which recognize specific protein targets. However, most proteins are not...
Modeling Ligand Binding Site Water Networks with Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation: Impact on Ligand Binding Orientations and Relative Binding Affinities.
Appropriate treatment of water contributions to protein-ligand interactions is a very challenging problem in the context of adequately determining the number of waters to investigate and...
Isolation of phytoconstituents from an extract of Murraya paniculata with cytotoxicity and antioxidant activities and in silico evaluation of their potential to bind to aldose reductase (AKR1B1).
The study on Murraya paniculata (Orange Jasmine) stem bark extract found it to have antioxidant and cytotoxic proper-ties. The structures of the isolated phytoconstituents were determined using...
Detecting features of antibody structure through their mediator-accessible redox activities.
Protein function relies on sequence, folding and post-translational modification and molecular measurements are commonly used to reveal these structural features. Here, we report an alternative...
Balancing Group 1 Monoatomic Ion-Polar Compound Interactions in the Polarizable Drude Force Field: Application in Protein and Nucleic Acid Systems.
An accurate force field (FF) is the foundation of reliable results from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In our recently published work, we developed a protocol to generate atom pair-specific...