Sumudu Leelananda

Welcome to my homepage! I'm a post-doctoral research associate with Dr. Robert L. Jernigan at Iowa State University.

Education

• PhD in Biophysics, Iowa State University (2011)
• BS in Physics, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2006)

Research Interests

• Elastic network models and protein dynamics
• Generation of fold specific similarity matrices
• Protein structure prediction
• Protein designability and lattice models of proteins

Selected Publications

• Leelananda S.P., Towfic F., Jernigan R.L. and Kloczkowski A. (2011). Exploration of the relationship between topology and designability of conformations J. Chem. Phys.134, 235101. [Link]
• Leelananda S.P., Feng Y., Gniewek P., Kloczkowski A. and Jernigan R. L. (2011). Statistical contact potentials in protein coarse-grained modeling: From pair to multi-body potentials. Multiscale approaches to protein modeling. A. Kolinski, ed. Springer, New York. pp 127-157. [Link]
• Gniewek P., Leelananda S. P., Kolinski A., Jernigan R. L. and Kloczkowski, A. (2011). Multi-body coarse-grained potentials for native structure recognition and quality assessment of protein models.Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 79, 1923-1929. [Link]
• Zimmermann M.T.*, Leelananda S.P.*, Feng Y., Gniewek P., Jernigan R. L. and Kloczkowski A. (2011). Free energy for coarse-grained proteins by integrating multi-body statistical contact potentials with entropies from elastic network models.Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics 12, 137-147. *equal contribution [Link]
• Skliros A., Zimmermann M.T., Chakraborty D., Saraswathi S., Katebi A., Leelananda S.P., Kloczkowski A. and Jernigan R. L. (2012). The importance of slow motions for protein functional loops. Physical Biology 9, 14001. [Link]
• Zimmermann M.T., Leelananda S.P., Kloczkowski A. and Jernigan R.L. Combining statistical potentials with dynamics-based entropies improves selection from protein decoys and docking poses. (2012) J. Phys. Chem. B 116 (23), pp 6725-6731 [Link]