Kenneth M. Merz Jr.

Kenneth M. Merz Jr. is an American biochemist and molecular biologist currently Director, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research and the Joseph Zichis Chair at Michigan State University and Editor-in-Chief of American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.[1][2] A highly cited expert in his field for the last 10 years,[3] his research interests are computational, biomolecular and biology.[4]

Kenneth M. Merz Jr.
Born	1959 | age 60
Education	Washington College (1977–1981) The University of Texas at Austin (1981–1985) Cornell University (1986–1987) University of California, San Francisco (1987–1989)
Scientific career
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University (1989–2005) University of Florida (2005–2013) Michigan State University (2013–present)

Education

He earned his B.S. at Washington College and his Ph.D at University of Texas at Austin.[5]

Publications

• The Effects of Computational Modeling Errors on the Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Variables, J. C. Faver; W. Yang; K. M. Merz Jr., J. Chem. Theory and Comput. 2012, 8, 3769–3776.
• Acceleration of Electron Repulsion Integral Evaluation on Graphics Processing Units via Use of Recurrence Relations, Y. Miao; K, M. Merz Jr., J. Chem. Theory and Comput. 2013, 9, 965–976.
• Energetics of Zinc-Mediated Interactions in the Allosteric Pathways of Metal Sensor Proteins, D. K. Chakravorty; T. M. Parker; A. J. Guerro; C. D. Sherrill; D. P. Giedroc, K. M. Merz Jr., J. Am Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 30–33.
• Conformational analysis and parallel QM/MM X-ray refinement of protein bound anti-Alzheimer drug donepezil, Z. Fu; X. Li; Y. Miao; K. M. Merz Jr., J. Chem. Theory and Comput. 2013, 9, 1686-1693.
• Development of the Knowledge-based & Empirical Combined Scoring Algorithm (KECSA) to Score Protein-Ligand Interactions, Z. Zheng; K. M. Merz Jr., J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2013, 53, 1073–1083.

References

1. "Kenneth Merz named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling". acs.org. November 7, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
2. "Kenneth Merz". merzgroup.org. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
3. "Kenneth M. Merz Jr". Retrieved November 27, 2017.
4. "Kenneth M. Merz". msu.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
5. "Kenneth M. Merz". msu.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2017.