Rate My Professor Serdar Kuyucak

Earlier in his career, Kuyucak contributed to nuclear physics through applications of the interacting boson model and 1/N expansion methods to nuclear spectroscopy and high-spin states. He has co-supervised honours projects on influenza antigen stability, flu vaccine efficacy, and protein aggregation challenges in biologics development, often in collaboration with pharmacy researchers. Kuyucak was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, recognized for codeveloping the 1/N boson expansion technique for medium- to heavy-mass nuclei and promoting international physics. Notable publications include 'Conducting-state properties of the KcsA potassium channel from molecular and Brownian dynamics simulations' (2002), 'Physics of Ion Channels' (2003), 'Molecular dynamics simulations elucidate the mechanism of proton transport by a fungal transporter' (2014), 'Elucidation of the Role of a Conserved Methionine in Glutamate Transporters' (2017), and 'Q1291H-CFTR molecular dynamics simulations and ex vivo theratyping' (2023). He maintains an active lab focused on molecular modeling and computational drug design.