Kansas State University

Jeremy Schmit, Ph.D., Ancillary Assistant Professor

Contact information Office: 330 Cardwell Hall Phone: 785-532-1621 Fax: 785-532-6806 E-mail: schmit@phys.ksu.edu Lab website Education B.S. 1999, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Ph.D. 2005, University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of specialty

Theoretical Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics

• Protein phase behavior
• Protein crystallization
• Amyloid fibril formation
• Drug formulations
• Self-assembly

Selected publications

J. D. Schmit and K. Dill, “Growth rates of protein crystals”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134(9), 3934–3937 (2012)

K. A. Dill, K. Ghosh, and J. D. Schmit, “Physical limits of cells and proteomes”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 108, 17876-17882 (2011)

J. D. Schmit, S. Whitelam, and K. Dill, “Electrostatics and aggregation: how charge can turn a crystal into a gel”, J. Chem. Phys. 135, 085103 (2011)

J. D. Schmit, K. Ghosh, and K. Dill, “Why do amyloid molecules assemble into oligomers and fibrils?”, http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5332, Biophys. J. 100, 450-458 (2011)

J. D. Schmit and K. Dill, “The stabilities of protein crystals”, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 4020 (2010)

J. D. Schmit, E. Kamber, and J. Kondev, “Diffusion limited reactions in confined environments”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 218302 (2009)

J. D. Schmit and A. J. Levine, “Statistical Model for Intermolecular Adhesion in π Conjugated Polymers”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 198303 (2008)

Complete Curriculum Vita