Publications

• Zhou Y., Guan L., Freites J.A., Kaback H.R. (2008). Opening and Closing of the Periplasmic Gate in Lactose Permease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105:3774-3778.
• Freites, J. A., Tobias, D.J., White, S. H. (2006). A Voltage Sensor Water Pore. Biophys. J., 91:L90-L92.
• Freites, J. A., Tobias, D.J., von Heijne, G., White, S. H. (2005). Interface Connections of a Transmembrane Voltage Sensor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102:15059-15064.
• Freites, J. A., Ali S., Rosengarth A., Luecke H., Dennin M. B. (2004). Annexin A1 Interaction with a Zwitterionic Phospholipid Monolayer: A Fluorescence Microscopy Study. Langmuir, 20:11674-11683.
• Freites, J. A., Choi, Y., Tobias, D.J. (2003). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Pulmonary Surfactant Protein B Peptide in a Lipid Monolayer. Biophys. J., 84:2169-2180.
• Gonzalez, G., Freites, J. A., and Rojas, C. E. (2001). Synthesis and characterization of nano-phase particles obtained by D.C. sputtering. Scripta Mater., 4:1883-1887.
• Gonzalez, G., Urbina de Navarro, C., Freites, J. A., and Rojas, C. E. (1994). Applications of Ultramicrotomy in Materials Science. Acta Microscopica, 3:65-78.

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A Brief Curriculum Vitae

• 1988 Materials Engineering, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
• 1991-1997 Instructor, Department of Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
• 2002 M.S. Physics, University of California, Irvine
• 2004 Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Irvine
• 2004-2005 Postgraduate Researcher, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine
• 2005-2007 Postgraduate Researcher, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine
• 2005-2007 Postdoctoral Trainee in the NLM-sponsored UCI Biomedical Informatics Training Program
• 2008-present Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests

• Membrane and Membrane Protein Biophysics
• Theoretical and Computational Biophysics

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