B. Montgomery "Monte" Pettitt is the Hugh Roy and Lille Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston

University of Houston

The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...

's Department of Chemistry, director of Houston's Institute for Molecular Design, chair of the The W.M. Keck Center, and a faculty member of the Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) program at Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care...

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Contributions and Affiliations

He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Houston in December 1975, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Houston in May 1980 under the tutelage of Dr. Peter J. Rossky. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

 (1980-1983) and at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 under the tutelage of Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus is an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979...

 (1983-1985).

As of 2004 he is affiliated with the Institute for Molecular Design, the The W.M. Keck Center and the Ph.D. program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) at Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care...

. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Recent publications

• "Structural Basis for the Activity of pp60 c src Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors" Biopolymers, 59 167-179 (2001); N.V. Prabhu, S.A. Siddiqui, J.S. McMurray and B. M. Pettitt.
• "A Study of DNA tethered to a Surface by an All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation" Theo. Chem. Accounts 106 233-235 (2001); Ka-Yiu Wong and B.M. Pettitt.
• "Numerical Simulation of the Sedimentation of a Tripole-like body in an incompressible Viscous Fluid" Applied Math. Lett. 15 743-747 (2002); L. H. Juarez, R. Glowinski, B. M. Pettitt.
• "Simulations of the Bis-Penicillamine Enkephalin in Sodium Chloride Solution: A Parameter Study" Biopolymers 60 134-152 (2001); Gail Marlow and B. M. Pettitt.
• "Fine tuning function: Correlation of hinge domain interactions with functional dis- tinctions between LacI and PurR " Protein Science 11 778-794 (2002); Liskin Swint- Kruse, C. Larson, B. M. Pettitt and K.S. Matthews.
• "Computationally useful bridge diagram series II. Diagrams in h-bonds," J. Chem. Phys. 116 9404-9413 (2002); John Perkyns, Kippi Dyer and B. M. Pettitt.
• "Computationally useful bridge diagram series III. Lennard-Jones mixtures," J. Chem. Phys. 116 9413-9422 (2002); Kippi Dyer, John Perkyns, and B. M. Pettitt.
• "Solvation and Hydration of Proteins and Nucleic acids: a Theoretical View of Simu- lation and Experiment" Accounts of Chemical Res. 35 376- 384 (2002); V. Makarov, B.M. Pettitt and M. Feig.
• "Coulomb Blockage of Hybridization in Two-Dimensional DNA Arrays" Phys. Rev. E 66, 41905 (2002); A. Vainrub and B.M. Pettitt.

External links

• B. Montgomery Pettitt: Physical Chemistry
• B. Montgomery Pettitt at the University of Houston
• Institute for Molecular Design
• W.M. Keck Center
• Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine