Jeremy Schmit, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physics

Contact information Office: 330 Cardwell Hall E-mail: schmit@k-state.edu Lab website Education B.A. 1999, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Ph.D. 2005, University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of specialty

Theoretical Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics

• Biomolecule phase separation
• Amyloid fibril formation
• Drug formulations
• Self-assembly

Selected publications

S.K.K. Galagedera, T.P. Dao, S.E. Enos, A. Chaudhuri, J.D. Schmit and C.A. Castañeda, “Polyubiquitin ligand-induced phase transitions are optimized by spacing between ubiquitin units”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 120 (42) e2306638120 (2023)

J.D. Schmit, M. Feric, and M. Dundr, “How Hierarchical Interactions Make Membraneless Organelles Tick Like Clockwork", Trends Biochem. Sci. 46, 525-534 (2021)

K. Bhandari, M.A. Cotten, J. Kim, M.K. Rosen, and J.D. Schmit, “Structure–Function Properties in Disordered Condensates", J. Phys. Chem. B 125, 467–476 (2021)

Z. Jia, J. D. Schmit, and J. Chen, “Amyloid assembly is dominated by misregistered kinetic traps on an unbiased energy landscape”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 117, 10322-10328 (2020)

J. D. Schmit, J. J. Bouchard, E. W. Martin, and T. Mittag, “Protein network structure enables switching between liquid and gel states”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 874-883 (2020)

Y.R. Dahal and J.D. Schmit, “Ion Specificity and Nonmonotonic Protein Solubility from Salt Entropy”, Biophys. J 114, 76 (2018)