Peter Jordan

Title

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

Chemistry

Expertise

Statistical mechanics of membranes and of membrane transport. Electrostatic modeling of ion pores. Molecular dynamics.

Degrees

Yale University, Ph.D.

Yale University, M.S.

California Institute of Technology, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	jordan@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2540
Office:	Edison-Lecks Science Building, 115

Awards and Honors

Member, Biophysical Journal Editorial Board (2004 - 2007)

Member of the Biophysics of Synapses, Channels and Transporters Study Section (2001 - 2005)

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1978 - 1979)

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1971 - 1972)

Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1960)

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (1960 - 1962)

National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (1957 - 1960)

Courses Taught

CHEM	143b	Kinetics, Dynamics, and Transport
CHEM	144a	Computational Chemistry
CHEM	240c	Physical Chemistry Seminar
CHEM	250c	Biophysical Chemistry Seminar

Scholarship

Jordan, Peter C.; M. B. Partenskii. "Relaxing gap capacitor toy models in physics of electrified interfaces." Amer. J. Phys. (2011). (forthcoming)

Jordan, Peter C.; G. V. Miloshevsky, A. Hassanein & M. B. Partenskii. "Electroelastic coupling between Membrane Fluctuations and membrane-embedded charges: Continuum Multi-dielectric treatment." J. Chem. Phys. 132. (2010): 234707 (11 pages).

Jordan, Peter C.; Miloshevsky, Gennady V.; Hassanein, Ahmed. "Antiport Mechanism for Cl-/H+ in ClC-ec1 from Normal Mode Analysis." Biophysical Journal 98. (2010): 999-1008.

Jordan, Peter C.; Miloshevsky, Gennady, V.; Hassanein, Ahmed. "Shape-Dependent Global Deformation Modes of Large Protein Structures." Journal of Molecular Structure 972. (2010): 41-50.

Jordan, Peter; Partenskii, Michael B.. ""Squishy capacitor" model for electrical double layers, and the stability of charged interfaces." Physical Review E 80. (2009): 011112 (16 pages).

Jordan, Peter; Miloshevsky, Gennady V.. "Conformational Changes in the Selectivity Filter of the Open-State KcsA Channel: An Energy Minimization Study." Biophysical J. 95. (2008): 3239-3251.

Jordan, Peter; Partenskii, Michael B.. "Limitations and strengths of uniformly charged double layer theory. Physical significance of capacitance anomalies." Physical Review E 77. (2008): 061117 (6 pages).

Jordan, Peter C. & G. V. Miloshevsky. "Open-State Conformation of the KcsA K+ Channel: Monte Carlo Normal Mode Following Simulations." Structure 15. 12 (2007): 1654-1663.

Jordan, Peter C.. "Tuning a potassium channel - The caress of the surroundings." Biophysical Journal 93. (2007): 1091-1092.

Jordan, Peter, M. B. Partenskii & G. V. Miloshevsky. "The influence of ponderomotive forces on local membrane thickness fluctuations: Implications for low voltage electroporation." Israel Journal of Chemistry 47. (2007): 395-396.

Jordan, Peter; Miloshvsky, Gennady V.. "Open-State Conformation of the KcsA K+ Channel: Monte Carlo Normal Mode Following Simulations." Structure 15. (2007): 1654-1663.

Jordan, Peter & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "The open state gating mechanism of gramicidin A requires relative opposed monomer rotation and simultaneous lateral displacement." Structure 14. (2006): 1241-1249.

Jordan, Peter, G. V. Miloshevsky, V. A. Sizyuk, M. B. Partenskii & A. Hassanein. "Application of Finite Difference Methods to Membrane-Mediated Protein Interactions and to Heat and Magnetic Field Diffusion in Plasmas." Journal of Computational Physics 212. (2006): 25-51.

Jordan, Peter. "A Mesoscopic-Microscopic Perspective on Ion Channel Permeation Energetics: the Semi-Microscopic Approach." Biological Membrane Ion Channels: Dynamics, Structure, and Applications. Ed. S.H. Chung, O.S. Anderson, and V. Krishnamurthy. New York: Springer, 2006. 485-505.

Jordan, Peter. "Ion Channels, from Fantasy to Fact in Fifty Years." Biological Membrane Ion Channels: Dynamics, Structure, and Applications. Ed. S.H. Chung, O.S. Anderson, & V. Krishnamurthy. New York: Springer, 2006. 2-29.

Jordan, Peter & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Permeation and Gating in Proteins: kinetic Monte Carlo Reaction Path Following." Journal of Chemical Physics 122. (2005): 214901 (7 pages).

Jordan, Peter, & Michael B. Partenskii.. "Negative capacitance and instability at electrified interfaces: Lessons from the study of membrane capacitance." Condensed Matter Physics 8. (2005): 397-412.

Jordan,Peter, & Michael B. Partenskii. "Negative capacitance and related instabilities in theoretical models of the electric double layer and membrane capacitors." ArXiv. Physics (2005).

Jordan,Peter. "Fifty Years of Progress in Ion Channel Research." IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2005).

Jordan,Peter. "Semi-Microscopic Modeling of Permeation Energetics." IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2005).

Jordan,Peter. For full ciations see attached CV. 2005.

Jordan,Peter & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Permeation in ion channels. The Interplay of structure and theory." Trends in Neurosciences (2004).

Jordan,Peter & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Water and ion permeation in bAQp1 and GlpF channels: A kinetic Monte Carlo study." Biophysical Journal (2004).

Jordan,Peter & Vladimir L. Dorman. "Ionic permeation free energy in gramicidin: A semi-microscopic perspective." Biophysical Journal (2004).

Jordan,Peter, Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Gating gramicidin channels in lipid bilayers: Reaction coordinates and the mechanism of dissociation." Biophysical Journal (2004): 92-104.

Jordan,Peter, Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Anion pathway and potential energy profiles along curvilinear bacterial ClC Cl- pores: Electrostatic effects of charged residues." Biophysical Journal (2004): 825-835.

Jordan,Peter, Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Permeation in ion channels. The interplay of structure and theory." Trends in Neurosciences (2004): 308-314.

Jordan,Peter, Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Water and ion permeation in bAQP1 and GlpF channels: A kinetic Monte Carlo study." Biophysical Journal (2004): 3690-3702.

Jordan,Peter, Michael B. Partenskii & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Membrane inclusions as coupled harmonic oscillators: Effects due to anisotropic membrane slope relaxation." Journal of Chemical Physics (2004): 7183-7193.

Jordan,Peter, Michael B. Partenskii & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Membrane inclusions as coupled harmonic oscillators: Effects due to anisotropic membrane slope relaxations." Journal of Chemical Physics (2004).

Jordan,Peter, Michael B. Partenskii & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Stabilization of ion channels due to membrane-mediated elastic interaction." Journal of Chemical Physics (2004).

Jordan,Peter, Michael B. Partenskii & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Stabilization of ion channels due to membrane-mediated elastic interaction." Journal of Chemical Physics (2004): 10306-1031.

Jordan,Peter, Vladimir L. Dorman. "Ionic permeation free energy in gramicidin: A semi-microscopic perspective." Biophysical Journal (2004): 3529-3541.

Jordan,Peter, Michael B. Partenskii & Gennady V. Miloshevsky. "Energetics and gating of narrow ionic channels: The influence of channel architecture and lipid-channel interactions." Marcel Dekker (2003): 493-534.

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