Rogan Carr

A typical view from the office

e-mail: 
rccarr2@illinois.edu
phone: 
(217) 721-1774
office: 
261 LLP

Loomis Laboratory of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080

Rogan Carr received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where studied research interests include membrane proteins and the interface between biological systems and nanotechnological devices. He is currently working in Evolutionary Systems Biology at the University of Washington.

Publications

  1. David B. Wells, Swati Bhattacharya, Rogan Carr, Christopher Maffeo, Anthony H. Ho, Jeffrey Comer, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "Optimization of the molecular dynamics method for simulations of DNA and ion transport through biological nanopores." Methods Mol Biol 870:165-86 (2012).
  2. Rogan Carr, Jeffrey Comer, Mark D. Ginsberg, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "Atoms-to-microns model for small solute transport through sticky nanochannels." Lab Chip 11:3766-73 (2011).
  3. Adarsh D. Radadia, Courtney J. Stavis, Rogan Carr, Hongjun Zeng, William P. King, John A. Carlisle, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Robert J. Hamers, and Rashid Bashir. "Control of Nanoscale Environment to Improve Stability of Immobilized Proteins on Diamond Surfaces." Adv Funct Mater 21:1040-1050 (2011).
  4. Rogan Carr, Jeffrey Comer, Mark D. Ginsberg, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "Microscopic Perspective on the Adsorption Isotherm of a Heterogeneous Surface." J Phys Chem Lett 2:1804-1807 (2011).
  5. Courtney J. Stavis, Tami Lasseter Clare, James E. Butler, Adarsh D. Radadia, Rogan Carr, Hongjun Zeng, William P. King, John A. Carlisle, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Rashid Bashir, and Robert J. Hamers. "Surface functionalization of thin-film diamond for highly stable and selective biological interfaces." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:983-8 (2011).
  6. Rogan Carr, Jeffrey Comer, Mark D. Ginsberg, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "Modeling Pressure-Driven Transport of Proteins through a Nanochannel." IEEE Trans Nanotechnol 10:75-82 (2011).
  7. Binquan Luan, Rogan Carr, Martin Caffrey, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "The effect of calcium on the conformation of cobalamin transporter BtuB." Proteins 78:1153-62 (2010).
  8. Rogan Carr, Ira A. Weinstock, Asipu Sivaprasadarao, Achim Müller, and Aleksei Aksimentiev. "Synthetic ion channels via self-assembly: a route for embedding porous polyoxometalate nanocapsules in lipid bilayer membranes." Nano Lett 8:3916-21 (2008). PDF icon Supporting Information (pdf) (8.8 MB)