User:David E. Volk

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Dave playing his Michael Kelly Dragonfly 4 Acoustic base guitar at the Stingaree Music Festival, April 19, 2008.

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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)

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David E. Volk Status    last updated January 24, 2008    [edit plan here] Get your own infobox! • Group Status ~ Plans ~ Short term plans 1. antibiotics articles 2. decide what goes into chem_infobox 3. biosynthesis sections for all 20 amino acids Longer-term plans 1. Work on more Music articles 2. Work on steroid and all related articles ~ Roles and notes ~ Roles in the system 1. Editorial Council member 2. Editorial Personnel Administrator (EPA) 3. Chemistry Editor/Author 4. Biology Editor/Author 5. Music Author Notes to self Click edit above to start these notes Public notes :   Chemistry Workgroup    Status    last updated January 21, 2008    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans 1. improve amino acid pages, biosynthesis 2. improve steroid and improve/create related pages My longer-term plans 1. create pages all major metabolism cycles, reactions ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles 1. Editor 2. Author 3. "Checklister" My notes 1. finish amino acid synthesis text and structures Public notes: Wish to make pages for all major metabolic pathways and chemicals therein. Also, we need pages, with help from Health Sciences folks, for every prescription drug available. Chemistry / Health Sciences Articles I Started -part 1 Abacavir Acetaldehyde Acetaminophen Acetic acid Acetone Acid Acyclovir Alanine Aldosterone Amikacin Aminoglycoside Ampicillin Amprenavir Amoxicillin Androstenedione Anion Antiviral drug Arginine Aristolochic acid Arthralgia Arthrodynia Aspartic acid Asparagine Atazanavir (AZT) Atorvastatin (Lipitor) Azathioprine Azlocillin Azole Bioinformatics Boron Boyle's law Carbenicillin Carboxylic acid Carnitine Cefaclor Cefadroxil Cefalotin Cefazolin Cefepime Cerivastatin Chemistry style guide Chorismate Cidofovir Cinoxacin Ciprofloxacin Clofibrate Cloxacillin Colestipol Cortisol Cross product Cysteine Cystine Diazinon DEET Delavirdine Detergent Deuterium Dicloxacillin Didanosine Efavirenz Enantiomer Entecavir Eplerenone Ester Estradiol Estrogen Ether Ezetimibe Famciclovir Fenofibrate Folic acid Foscarnet Fosfomycin Flavivirus Flucloxacillin Fluvastatin Fuming sulfuric acid GABA Ganciclovir Gemfibrozil Glucose Glutamic acid Glutamine Hetacillin Hexose Hippurate Histidine Hydrocortisone Hydrophilic HMG CoA Hydrogen/Isotopes Ideal gas law Idoxuridine Indinavir Iron/Isotopes Isoleucine Ketoconazole Lamivudine Leflunomide Leucine Lewis acid Lewis acid-base theory List of NMR experiments Lovastatin Lysine Mesalamine Methionine Methotrexate Mevalonate Mevastatin Mezlocillin Midodrine Minocycline NADPH Chemistry / Health Sciences Articles I Started -part 2 Nelfinavir Netilmicin Nitroglycerin Nitromethane Neuralgia Oseltamivir Oxacillin NMR active elements Penciclovir Penicillin G Penicillin V Phenylalanine Phosphate Phosphoric acid Phosphorus Piperacillin Pravastatin Prednisone Prednisolone Progesterone Proline Protease inhibitor Protein structure Rhabdomyolysis Ribavirin Rimantadine Ritonavir Rosuvastatin (Crestor) Saquinavir Serine Simvastatin Spironolactone Stavudine Stent Steroid Streptomycin Sulfasalazine Sulfur dioxide Sulfuric acid Tenofovir Testosterone Thioaptamer Tipranavir Threonine Tryptophan Tyrosine Valine Vidarabine Warfarin West Nile virus Zalcitabine Zanamivir Zidovudine Music Article I Created Cover band Lucinda Williams Rex Bell Rex Bell/Discography REO Speedwagon REO Speedwagon/Discography Rush Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt/Discography (this was work!) Other Articles I Created Carne gasada - a savory Mexican stew Chateau de Mores Chili-mac (vegetarian) Enchilada sauce - both red and green Galveston County Daily News Kim Komando Kirchhoff's current law Kirchhoff's voltage law Law of cosines Law of sines Judge Susan Criss of Galveston, County, Texas Texas Hold 'Em Areas of Expertise Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy Protein NMR Structures West Nile virus ED3 Omsk Hemorhagic fever ED3 Dengue 4 virus Yellow fever virus DNA Structures Benzo[a]pyrene-adducted (carcinogenic) DNA Oxidatively Damaged DNA Thioaptamer DNA Metabonomics/Metabolomics Quantum Mechanics DNA:DNA Interactions DNA:Metal Interactions Lewis Acid Chemistry AlCl3 and Et2AlCl mediated ring opening reactions SnCl4 mediated ring opening reactions Protein Expression & Purification 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.