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Ismail A. Ahmed, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Neurobiology

Education History

Undergraduate The City College of New York
 BS
Doctoral Training Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
 PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship New York University Grossman School of Medicine
 Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Fong KP, Ahmed IA, Mravic M, Jo H, Kim OV, Litvinov RI, Weisel JW, DeGrado WF, Gai F, Bennett JS (2021). Visualization of Platelet Integrins via Two-Photon Microscopy Using Anti-transmembrane Domain Peptides Containing a Blue Fluorescent Amino Acid. Biochemistry, 60(21), 1722-1730.
  2. Micikas RJ, Ahmed IA, Acharyya A, Smith AB, Gai F (2021). Tuning the electronic transition energy of indole via substitution: application to identify tryptophan-based chromophores that absorb and emit visible light. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 23(11), 6433-6437.
  3. Ahmed IA, Rodgers JM, Eng C, Troxler T, Gai F (2019). PET and FRET utility of an amino acid pair: tryptophan and 4-cyanotryptophan. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 21(24), 12843-12849.
  4. Zhang K, Ahmed IA, Kratochvil HT, DeGrado WF, Gai F, Jo H (2019). Synthesis and application of the blue fluorescent amino acid l-4-cyanotryptophan to assess peptide-membrane interactions. Chem Commun (Camb), 55(35), 5095-5098.
  5. Ahmed IA, Acharyya A, Eng CM, Rodgers JM, DeGrado WF, Jo H, Gai F (2019). 4-Cyanoindole-2'-deoxyribonucleoside as a Dual Fluorescence and Infrared Probe of DNA Structure and Dynamics. Molecules, 24(3).
  6. Hilaire MR, Ahmed IA, Lin CW, Jo H, DeGrado WF, Gai F (2017). Blue fluorescent amino acid for biological spectroscopy and microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(23), 6005-6009.
  7. Ahmed IA, Gai F (2017). Simple method to introduce an ester infrared probe into proteins. Protein Sci, 26(2), 375-381.
  8. Markiewicz BN, Lemmin T, Zhang W, Ahmed IA, Jo H, Fiorin G, Troxler T, DeGrado WF, Gai F (2016). Infrared and fluorescence assessment of the hydration status of the tryptophan gate in the influenza A M2 proton channel. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 18(41), 28939-28950.
  9. Pazos IM, Ahmed IA, Berríos MI, Gai F (2015). Sensing pH via p-cyanophenylalanine fluorescence: Application to determine peptide pKa and membrane penetration kinetics. Anal Biochem, 483, 21-6.
  10. Mukherjee D, Ahmed IA, Gai F (2022). Site-Specific Interrogation of Protein Structure and Stability. Methods Mol Biol, 2376, 65-87.
  11. Acharyya A, Ahmed IA, Gai F (2020). 4-Cyanoindole-based fluorophores for biological spectroscopy and microscopy. Methods Enzymol, 639, 191-215.
  12. Ahmed I, Armstrong A, Clemons TA, Clune-Taylor C, Love-Rutledge ST, Phillips MA, Rogers CD, Williams MJ (2023). How do DEI initiatives impact STEMM, and why do we still need them? Cell, 186(12), 2506-2509.
  13. Mutter AC, Norman JA, Tiedemann MT, Singh S, Sha S, Morsi S, Ahmed I, Stillman MJ, Koder RL (2014). Rational design of a zinc phthalocyanine binding protein. J Struct Biol, 185(2), 178-85.
  14. Zhang L, Anderson JL, Ahmed I, Norman JA, Negron C, Mutter AC, Dutton PL, Koder RL (2011). Manipulating cofactor binding thermodynamics in an artificial oxygen transport protein. Biochemistry, 50(47), 10254-61.