Ma, Lixin

Lixin Ma
Research Assistant Professor
Office Address:		VA Research B046 800 Hospital Dr., Columbia, MO 65201
Phone:		(573) 814-6000 ext 3760
Fax:		(573)814-6559
Email:		MaL@health.missouri.edu

Education:
2000	Ph.D.	Chemistry, University of Copenhagen , Denmark .
1990	M.Sc.	Physics, Nankai University , Tianjin , China .
1987	B.Sc.	Physics, Nankai University , Tianjin , China .
Professional Experience:
2003-present		Research Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia
2002 – 2003		Postdoctoral Research Associate. Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University .
2000 – 2001		Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1995 - 2000		Research Assistant. Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1990 - 1995		Lecturer. MRI Division, the 2 nd Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, China.
Research Interests: Develop and apply non-invasive methods in biomedical imaging to research cancer. In particularly, to expose the unique functional and molecular properties of cancers, and to use these for improving early diagnoses and for evaluating and guiding cancer therapeutic research, by using MRI/MRS, PET or SPECT methodologies. My other interest is to study structure, dynamics and function of biological molecules using NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation.
Recent Publications:
Lixin Ma , Christophor T. Johns, Teresa D. Groesch, Richard J. Kuhn, Carol B. Post (2004) Solution Structure of Dengue Virus Capsid Protein Reveals Another Fold, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 3414-3419. Christophor T. Johns, Lixin Ma, John W. Burgner, Teresa D. Groesch, Carol B. Post, and Richard J. Kuhn (2003) Flavivirus Capsid is a Dimeric Alpha-Helical Protein, The Journal of Virology, 77(12), p.7143-7149. Lixin Ma, Mathias A. S. Hass, Nanna Vierick, Søren M. Kristensen, Jens Ulstrup, and Jens J. Led (2003) Backbone Dynamics of Reduced Plastocyanin from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis: Regions Involved in Electron Transfer Have Enhanced Mobility, Biochemistry, 42(2), 320-330. Lixin Ma, Else Philipp and Jens J. Led (2001) Determination of the electron self-exchange rates of blue copper proteins by super-WEFT NMR spectroscopy, J. Biomol. NMR, 19, 199-208. Lixin Ma, Anne-Marie M. Jorgensen, G. Ole Sorensen, Jens Ulstrup, and Jens J. Led (2000) Elucidation of the Paramagnetic R1 Relaxation of Heteronuclei and Protons in Cu(II) Plastocyanin from Anabaena variabilis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122(39), 9473-9485. Lixin Ma, and Jens J. Led (2000) Determination by High Field NMR Spectroscopy of the Longitudinal Electron Relaxation Rate in Cu(II) Plastocyanin from Anabaena variabilis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122(32), 7823-7824. Renhua Na, Ida-Marie Stender, Lixin Ma, Hans Christain Wulf (2000) Autofluorescence Spectrum of Skin: Component Bands and Body Site Variations, Skin Research and Technology, 6, 112-117.