Ismail A. Ahmed

Ismail A. Ahmed, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Neurobiology

Education History

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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. 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. (Read full article)
  2. Mukherjee D, Ahmed IA, Gai F (2021). Site-Specific Interrogation of Protein Structure and Stability. Methods Mol Biol, 2376, 65-87. (Read full article)
  3. 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. (Read full article)
  4. 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. (Read full article)
  5. Acharyya A, Ahmed IA, Gai F (2020). 4-Cyanoindole-based fluorophores for biological spectroscopy and microscopy. Methods Enzymol, 639, 191-215. (Read full article)
  6. 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. (Read full article)
  7. 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. (Read full article)
  8. 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). (Read full article)
  9. 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. (Read full article)
  10. Ahmed IA, Gai F (2017). Simple method to introduce an ester infrared probe into proteins. Protein Sci, 26(2), 375-381. (Read full article)
  11. 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. (Read full article)
  12. Pazos IM, Ahmed IA, Berros MI, Gai F (2015). Sensing pH via p-cyanophenylalanine fluorescence: Application to determine peptide pKa and membrane penetration kinetics. Anal Biochem, 483, 21-6. (Read full article)
  13. Mutter AC, Norman JA, Tiedemann MT, Singh S, Sha S, Morsi S, Ahmed I, Stillman MJ, Koder RL (2013). Rational design of a zinc phthalocyanine binding protein. J Struct Biol, 185(2), 178-85. (Read full article)
  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. (Read full article)