Ash Stuart
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOINFORMATICS
B.Sc., University of Illinois;
M.Sc., Columbia University;
Ph.D., Columbia University

Year Joined RCNJ: 2004

Courses Offered:

• Advanced Bioinformatics
• Introduction to Perl Scripting
• Protein Structure, Function & Modeling
• Cell & Molecular Biology

Teaching Interest:

• Bioinformatics
• Proteomics

Research Interest:

• Ligand Binding Sites in Proteins

Recent Publications:

• U. Pieper, N. Eswar, H. Braberg, M.S. Madhusudhan, F.P. Davis, A.C. Stuart, N. Mirkovic, A. Rossi, M.A. Marti-Renom, A. Fiser, B. Webb, D. Greenblatt, C.C. Huang, T.E. Ferrin, A. Sali, “MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models, and associated resources”, Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1: 32.
• A.C. Stuart, M. E. Gottesman and A.G. Palmer III, "The N-terminus is unstructured but not dynamically disordered in the complex between HK022 Nun protein and V phage BoxB RNA hairpin", FEBS Lett. 2003 Oct 9; 553(1-2): 95-8.
• N. Eswar, B. John, N. Mirkovic, A. Fiser, V.A. Ilyin, U. Pieper, A.C.Stuart, M.A. Marti-Renom, M.S. Madhusudhan, B. Yerkovich, A.Sali.  “Tools for comparative protein structure modeling and analysis” Nucleic Acids Res. (2003), 31(13):3375-80.
• U. Pieper, N. Easwar, A. C. Stuart, V. A. Ilyin and A. Sali, "ModBase, A database of annotated comparative protein structure models", Nucleic Acids Res. (2002), 30(1), 255-259.
• A. C. Stuart, V. A. Ilyin, and A. Sali, " LigBase: A Database of Families of Aligned Ligand Binding Sites in Known Protein Sequences and Structures", Bioinformatics, (2002), 18, 200-201.