Hai Long - Postdoc

phone: 303-275-3742
email: Hai.Long@nrel.gov
At NREL since 2006

Primary Research Interests

Computational modeling of protein-protein docking: focusing on the thermodynamics and kinetics properties of the hydrogenase/ferredoxin binding via molecular dynamics or Brownian dynamics simulation methods
DNA structure modeling and simulation
Electron transfer process and proton pathway inside hydrogenase via hybrid methods.

2007	Biophysical Society
2002	American Chemical Society

2006	Postdoctoral Researcher, NREL
2006	Ph.D., Computational Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2000	B.S., Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yan Zheng, Hai Long, G.C. Schatz, and Frederick D. Lewis, "Duplex and Hairpin Dimer Structures for Perylene Diimide-Oligonucleotide Conjugates," Chem. Commun.38, 4795–4797 (2005).
Frederick D. Lewis, Ligang Zhang, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, David M. Tiede, Hai Long, and George C. Schatz , "DNA as Helical Ruler: Exciton-Coupled Circular Dichroism in DNA Conjugates," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 14445–14453 (2005).
Ligang Zhang, Hai Long, Grant E. Boldt, Kim D. Janda, George C. Schatz, and Frederick D. Lewis, "a- and β-Stilbenosides as base-pair surrogates in DNA hairpins," Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 4, 314–322 (2006).
Hai Long, Alexander Kudlay, and George C. Schatz, "Molecular Dynamics Studies of Ion Distributions for DNA Duplexes and DNA Clusters: Salt Effects and Connection to DNA Melting," J. Phys. Chem. B. 110, 2918–2926 (2006).
Yan Zheng, Hai Long, George C. Schatz, and Frederick D. Lewis, "A Cooperative Beads-on-a-String Approach to Exceptionally Stable DNA Parallel Triplexes," Chem. Commun., 3830–3832 (2006).
Ligang Zhang, Hai Long, George C. Schatz, and Frederick D. Lewis, "Synthesis and Properties of Nicked Dumbbell and Dumbbell DNA Conjugates Having Stilbenedicarboxamide Linkers," Org. Biomol. Chem., 5, 450–456 (2007).