
Recent publications and presentations
F. T. Greenaway, C.Qiu, F. Ryvkin, “Structural Aspects of Lysyl Oxidase”, 10th
International Symposium on Vitamin B6 and Carbonyl Catalysis, New Mexico, 1999, Abstract P49.
F. T. Greenaway, C. Qiu, F. Ryvkin “Structural Aspects of Lysyl Oxidase,” Invited
paper in “Advances in Vitamin B6 and PQQ dependent proteins and quinoproteins,"
ed. M. Martinez- Carrion, Birkhauser - Verlag AG, 2000.
F. Ryvkin, F. T. Greenaway, “Computer Simulated Model of Copper-binding Site of
Lysyl Oxidase Using Extended Systematic Force Field (ESFF) Calculations“, 223rd
American Chemical Society Meeting Abstracts, INOR 166, Orlando April 2002.
F. Ryvkin and M. Dang*, " Structural characterization of lysyl oxidase: getting the best
from your protein sequence", 9th National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate
Research, Connecticut College, New London, CT June 2002. (* - undergraduate student)
F. Ryvkin, F. T. Greenaway, “Spectroscopic characterization of copper (II)-peptide
models of lysyl oxidase” 225th American Chemical Society Meeting Abstracts, INOR 230, New Orleans, March 2003
F. Ryvkin and M. Dang* “Computer-assisted Modeling of Copper- Containing Enzyme
Lysyl Oxidase”, Undergraduate Research Conference “Posters on the Hill”, Washington
DC, April 2003, ID 47658062.
International conference “Copper-2004”, Modeling the Copper-binding Site of Lysyl Oxidase,
Abstract INDOR# 132, Konstnaz, Germany, September 23-25, 2004.
F. Ryvkin (mentor), Hieu Vu* and Pui Yan* “Fluorescence Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)
in Water Samples of the Muddy River,” F. Ryvkin (mentor),S. Ruest* and J. Zaks* presented a project entitled “The Effects of Elevated Contaminant Levels on Boston’s Muddy River” 2d New
England Environmental Symposium, INDOR ##7, 8, Bridgewater State College, MA, November 15th, 2003.
F. Ryvkin, M. Dang* and V. Stoyneva* “Identification of disulfide bonds in the enzyme lysyl oxidase”
227th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, Abstract INDOR# 150, March 27-30, 2004.
F. Ryvkin (mentor), Aaron Schmidt* and Michael Flaherty* “Computer modeling of
single amino acid mutation effect on catalytic mechanism of DAO”, The Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) , INDOR 58, April 24 2003.
Aaron Schmidt, class of 2005 - Kluwer Book Award for excellence in undergraduate research.
F. Ryvkin and F. Greenaway “A peptide model of the copper-binding region of lysyl oxidase”,
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2004, vol.98/8, pp.1427-1435.