Prof. Dr. Alena Khmelinskaia

	Address	Prof. Dr. Alena Khmelinskaia Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus B 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 89 2180 77724
	Room-Nr.	B2.025
	Email
	Home page	khmelinskaia.cup.uni-muenchen.de

Research Interests

• protein design and self-assembly
• dynamic and responsive protein materials
• bioactive protein lego
• "of-the-shelf" programability of proteins

Short CV

• since 2023, W2 t.t. Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry LMU
• 2021 - 2023 Argelander Junior Professor (t.t. W2), TRA 2, Life and Medical Sciences Institute, University of Bonn
• 2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Protein Design (IPD), University of Washington
• 2018 Dr.rer.Nat, Department of Physics LMU

Key publications

• W Sheffler, EC Yang, Q Dowling, Y Hsia, CN Fries, J Stanislaw, MD Langowski, M Brandy, A Khmelinskaia, NP King, DA Baker. Fast and versatile sequence-independent protein docking for nanomaterials design using RPXDock. Plos Comp Biol (in press)
• B Basu Mallik*, J Stanislaw*, TM Alawathurage*, A Khmelinskaia. De novo design of polyhedral protein assemblies:    before and after the AI revolution. ChemBioChem, doi: 10.1002/cbic.202300117
•  JY(J) Wang*, A Khmelinskaia*, W Sheffler, A Antanasijevic, AJ Borst, C Shu, Y Hsia, U Nattermann, D Ellis, MC Miranda, M Ahlrichs, S Chan, A Kang, H Nguyen, C Sydeman, A Bera, L Carter, B Fiala, M Murphy, M Wu, DA Baker, A Ward, NP King (2023) Improving the secretion of designed protein assemblies through negative design of cryptic transmembrane domains. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 120(11): e2214556120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214556120
• EC Yang, R Divine, C Kang, A Feichtenbiner, H Manninen, S Chan, E Arenas, J Hallowell, IJ Orr, Z Subol, PC Tinker, T Mustafa, J O’Connor, B Kopenik, H Haddox, A Wargacki, K VanWormer, A Vatter, DA Baker, A Khmelinskaia#, NP King# (2022) Increasing computational protein design literacy among undergraduate students through cohort-based learning. J Chem Edu, 99(9): 3177-86. doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00500