User:David E. Volk

 Where David lives it is approximately: 17:40

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. Arginine
10. Aristolochic acid
11. Arthralgia
12. Arthrodynia
13. Aspartic acid
14. Asparagine
15. Bioinformatics
16. Boron
17. Boyle's law
18. Carboxylic acid
19. Cross product
20. Cysteine
21. Cystine
22. DEET
23. Deuterium
24. Enantiomer
25. Ester
26. Estradiol
27. Estrogen
28. Ether
29. Flavivirus
30. Fuming sulfuric acid
31. Glutamic acid
32. Glutamine
33. Hippurate
34. Hydrogen/Isotopes
35. Ideal gas law
36. Iron/Isotopes
37. Isoleucine
38. Lewis acid
39. Lewis acid-base theory
40. List of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments
41. Methionine
42. Nitroglycerin
43. Nitromethane
44. Neuralgia
45. NMR active elements
46. Phosphate
47. Phosphoric acid
48. Phosphorus (a CZ:New Draft of the Week)
49. Progesterone
50. Proline
51. Protein structure
52. Serine
53. Steroid
54. Testosterone
55. Threonine
56. Leucine
57. Lysine
58. Sulfur dioxide
59. Sulfuric acid
60. Texas Hold 'Em
61. Valine
62. 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.