User:David E. Volk

 Where David lives it is approximately: 13:47

All truth passes through three stages:

• First, it is ridiculed.
• Second, it is violently opposed.
• Third, it is accepted as being self-evident

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Chemistry/Biology articles I created

1. Acetaldehyde
2. Acetic acid
3. Acetone
4. Acid
5. alanine
6. Aldosterone
7. Androsteinedione
8. Anion
9. Aristolochic acid
10. Arthralgia
11. Arthrodynia
12. aspartic acid
13. asparagine
14. Bioinformatics
15. Boron
16. Boyle's law
17. Carboxylic acid
18. Cross product
19. cysteine
20. cystine
21. DEET
22. Deuterium
23. enantiomer
24. Ester
25. Estradiol
26. Estrogen
27. Ether
28. Flavivirus
29. fuming sulfuric acid
30. Hippurate
31. Hydrogen/Isotopes
32. Ideal gas law
33. Iron/Isotopes
34. isoleucine
35. Lewis acid
36. Lewis acid-base theory
37. List of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments
38. Nitroglycerin
39. Nitromethane
40. Neuralgia
41. NMR active elements
42. Phosphate
43. Phosphoric acid
44. phosphorus (a CZ:New Draft of the Week)
45. Progesterone
46. Protein structure
47. serine
48. Steroid
49. Testosterone
50. threonine
51. leucine
52. lysine
53. sulfur dioxide
54. sulfuric acid
55. Texas Hold 'Em
56. valine
57. West Nile virus

Music Article I Created

1. Cover band
2. Rex Bell
3. Rex Bell/Discography
4. REO Speedwagon
5. REO Speedwagon/Discography
6. Rush
7. Hayes Carll
8. Townes Van Zandt
9. Townes Van Zandt/Discography (this was work!)

Physics/Mathematics Articles I Created

• Kirchhoff's current law
• Kirchhoff's voltage law
• Law of cosines
• Law of sines

Areas of Expertise

1. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
   1. Protein NMR Structures
      1. West Nile virus ED3
      2. Omsk Hemorhagic fever ED3
      3. Dengue 4 virus
      4. Yellow fever virus
   2. DNA Structures
      1. Benzo[a]pyrene-adducted (carcinogenic) DNA
      2. Oxidatively Damaged DNA
      3. Thioaptamer DNA
   3. Metabonomics/Metabolomics
2. Quantum Mechanics
   1. DNA:DNA Interactions
   2. DNA:Metal Interactions
3. Lewis Acid Chemistry
   1. AlCl3 and Et2AlCl mediated ring opening reactions
   2. SnCl4 mediated ring opening reactions
4. Protein Expression & Purification
5. Molecular Mechanics

Areas of General Competence

• Physical/Organic Chemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Structural Biology
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Computer Programming
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • C++
• MAcromolecular Purification Methods
• Surface Plasmon Resonance (Biacore)
• Binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Hobbies

• Bass Guitar
• Texas Holdem'
• Bird Watching

Education & Background

David E. Volk holds a bachelors degree in mathematics and physics from Minot State (ND) University, and a Ph.D (1995) in physical organic chemistry from North Dakota State University. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center under Leonard Spicer and is currently a research scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. Currently his work focuses on studying the solution structures of DNA and proteins that are important to human health or diseases using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. These studies involve the West Nile, Yellow Fever, Omsk Hemorhaggic Fever and Dengue fever viruses. Other studies involved both structure and quantum mechanics studies of damaged DNA, such as oxidized DNA or adducted DNA. Most recently, he has initiated many metabonomics studies at UTMB. Visit Dr. Volk's UTMB Page for more information and links to his publications.