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Ran
Drori
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #548
I found the interaction between ice and antifreeze proteins a fascinating subject, and decided to pursue my Ph.D while studying these proteins with at the Hebrew University (Rehovot campus). I started my post-doc at NYU's Chemistry department on October 2014, working with Profs. and on two projects - (1) identifying and (2) studying how does the dynamics.
On August 2017, I joined the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ as an assistant professor.
Publications at YU (student name is underlined, * - corresponding author):
- Huard, D. J. E., Johnson, A. M., Fan, Z., Kenney, L. G., Xu, M., Drori, R., Gumbart, J. C., Dai, S., Lieberman, R. L., Glass, J. B.*, Molecular basis for destabilization of methane clathrate by a deep subsurface bacterial protein. PNAS Nexus, 2(8), pgad268 (2023).
- Drori, R.*, and Stevens, C., Divergent Mechanisms of Ice Growth Inhibition by Antifreeze Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology (book chapter). In-press (2023).
- Drori, R.*, Investigating the interaction between ice-binding proteins and ice surfaces using microfluidic devices and cold stages. Methods in Molecular Biology. (book chapter). In-press (2023).
- Thosar, A. U, Shalom, Y., Braslavsky, I., Drori, R.*, Patel, A. J.*, Accumulation of Antifreeze Proteins on Ice is Determined by Adsorption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 32, 17597-17602 (2023).
- Zalazar, M., Zypman, F., Drori, R.*, Micro-thermography for imaging ice crystal growth and nucleation inside non-transparent materials. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94 (5): 054903 (2023).
- Drori, R.*, Shalom, Y., A Microfluidic Approach for the Study of Ice and Clathrate Hydrates Crystallization. The Journal of Visualized Experiments (186), e64072 (2022).
- Soussana, T. N, Weissman, H., Rybtchinski, B., Drori, R.*, Adsorption-Inhibition of Clathrate Hydrates by Self-Assembled Nanostructures. ChemPhysChem, 22, 2182 (2021).
- Deng, J., Apfelbaum, E., Drori, R.*, Ice Growth Acceleration by Antifreeze Proteins Leads to Higher Thermal Hysteresis Activity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124, 49, 11081–11088 (2020).
- Shtukenberg, A.G.*, Drori R.*, Kahr. B.*, et al. (rank 2nd out of 14), Crystals of benzamide, the first polymorphous molecular compound, are helicoidal. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 14593 (2020).
- Berger T., Meister K., DeVries A. L., Eves R., Davies P. L., Drori R.*, Synergy Between Antifreeze Proteins is Driven by Complementary Ice-Binding. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 48, 19144–19150 (2019).
- Meister K., DeVries A. L., Bakker H. J., Drori R.*, Antifreeze Glycoproteins Bind Irreversibly to Ice. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (30), 9365-9368 (2018).
- Drori R.*, Holmes-Cerfon M.*, Kahr B., Kohn R. V., Ward M. D.* Dynamics and Unsteady Morphologies at Ice Interfaces Driven by D2O-H2O Exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,114 (44) 11627-11632 (2017).
Selected publications before joining YU:
1. Drori R.*, Li C., Hu C., Raiteri P., Rohl A., Ward M. D., Kahr B.* A Supramolecular Ice Growth Inhibitor. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138 (40), 13396–13401 (2016).
2. Drori R., Davies P. L., Braslavsky I.* When are Antifreeze Proteins in Solution Essential for Ice Growth Inhibition? Langmuir, 31 (21) 5805–5811 (2015).
3. Drori R., Davies P. L., Braslavsky I.* Experimental Correlation between Thermal Hysteresis Activity and the Distance between Antifreeze Proteins on an Ice Surface. Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 5, 7848-7853 (2015).
Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #548