Angela Barragan

Angela Barragan
PhD Student
Involved in projects
Proton-coupled electron transfer in bioenergetic systems
Modelling membrane-embedded systems

Physics Graduate Student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

E-mail: abarrag2@illinois.edu
Office Address: Beckman Institute, Room 3117
Office Phone: +1 (217) 244-1851

 

 

 

Short CV

Education:
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Antioquia, Colombia, 2009
M.Sc. in Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, 2013
 
Awards and Fellowships
Beckman Graduate Fellowship 2015-2016
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2015-2016
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2014-2015
Outreach Teaching Fellowship, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Spring 2014 - present
National Scholarship CONACYT, National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico, August 2010 - July

Research Project: Proton-coupled electron transfer in the bc1 complex.

Publications

Theoretical Description of the Primary Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex, Angela M. Barragan, Alexander V. Soudackov, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Klaus Schulten, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 715-723, (2021)
Mechanism of the Primary Charge Transfer Reaction in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex, Angela M. Barragan, Klaus Schulten, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 11369-11380, (2016)
Binding Site Recognition and Docking Dynamics of a Single Electron Transport Protein: Cytochrome c2, Abhishek Singharoy, Angela M. Barragan, Sundarapandian Thangapandian, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 12077-12089, (2016)
Atomic detail visualization of photosynthetic membranes with GPU-accelerated ray tracing, John E. Stone, Melih Sener, Kirby L. Vandivort, Angela Barragan, Abhishek Singharoy, Ivan Teo, João V. Ribeiro, Barry Isralewitz, Bo Liu, Boon Chong Goh, James C. Phillips, Craig MacGregor-Chatwin, Matthew P. Johnson, Lena F. Kourkoutis, C. Neil Hunter, Klaus Schulten, Parallel Computing, 55, 17 - 27, (2016)
Identification of Ubiquinol Binding Motifs at the Qo-Site of the Cytochrome bc1 Complex, Angela M. Barragan, Antony R. Crofts, Klaus Schulten, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119, 433-447, (2015)