Dan’s research aims to determine the three dimensional structure of opacity associated (Opa) proteins from Neisseria bacteria through various nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). From this structure he aims to construct a binding mechanism with human host receptor sites. Using this binding mechanism, the goal is to create a new pathway for drug delivery.
Dan Fox received a Student Voted Top Poster in Physical Science and Mathematics for the poster he presented at the 2010 Huskey Research Exhibition.
The University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts & Sciences held the 10th Annual Robert J. Huskey Research Exhibition on April 5, 2010. Over 25 different academic programs within the Graduate School participated in oral, poster, and performance presentations. The 2010 Huskey Research Exhibition program this year featured over 110 presentations on cutting edge research in various fields.
Alison and Dan present at the Biophysical Society’s 54th Annual Meeting at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, February 20-24, 2010. Dan presented a poster on the NMR structure determination of OpaI and Alison presented a talk on the molecular determinants of the spontaneous refolding of OpaI in lipid vesicles.
UVA Chemistry Colleague and Chair, David Cafiso, received a Fellow of the Biophysical Society award. 
On January 15th, Dan Fox was invited to give a talk at the UVA Structural & Computational Biology and Biophysics Biophysics Program Retreat. He presented his progress towards the NMR structure determination of OpaI
Columbus L, Lipfert J, Jambunathan K, Fox DA, Sim AYL, Doniach S, and Lesley SA. Mixing and Matching Detergents for Membrane Protein NMR Structure Determination J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (21), pp 7320–7326
This last February and March,
Dan Fox presented his NMR studies of Opa proteins at the Frontiers in NMR Biology Keystone Symposium
Brett Kroncke (in photo) presented his EPR studies and Chris Reyes presented his Opa refolding and NMR studies at the 53rd Biophysical Society Meeting.
Thien Nguyen presented her mixed micelle refolding studies at the 2009 NIGMS Workshop: Enabling Technologies for Structural Biology.
BS: Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh (2007)