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Last published 2026
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Adithya Polasa

Insilco antibody and protein engineering postdoctoral fellow

Also affiliated: Boehringer Ingelheim (France) (2026); Boehringer Ingelheim (United States) (2025–2026)

Postdoc Researcher

7 h-index 37 pubs 185 cited

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Binding
  • Proteins
  • Lipid Bilayers
  • Humans
  • Protein Domains
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
  • Cryoelectron Microscopy
  • Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1
  • Chloroplasts
  • Chloroplast Proteins

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Adithya Polasa's research focuses on the application and development of computational methods in biophysics and chemistry. Polasa specializes in molecular modeling, visualization software, and molecular dynamics simulation engines. Current work investigates the development of free energy calculation methods and their application to systems such as membrane insertases and influenza hemagglutinin. Polasa has also worked on optimizing and parallelizing scientific programs for various computer architectures.

Polasa's research has contributed to understanding protein dynamics and function. Publications include studies on binding affinity estimation from restrained umbrella sampling simulations, the conformational changes of viral spike proteins, and the conformational cycle of ABC transporters. Other work has involved elucidating the molecular basis of spontaneous protein activation and investigating membrane protein insertion mechanisms using molecular dynamics simulations. Polasa has also contributed to the design of recombinant proteins for nanoparticle synthesis.

With an h-index of 7 and 177 total citations across 37 publications, Polasa collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Mahmoud Moradi, Ugochi H. Isu, Vivek Govind Kumar, and James Losey.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 37
  • Citations: 185

Selected Publications

  • Simulating Freely Diffusing Single-Molecule FRET Data with Consideration of Protein Conformational Dynamics (2026)
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Conformational cycle of a protease-containing ABC transporter in lipid nanodiscs reveals the mechanism of cargo-protein coupling (2024)
    Nature Communications 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Deciphering the Interdomain Coupling in a Gram-Negative Bacterial Membrane Insertase (2024)
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Differential Behavior of Conformational Dynamics in Active and Inactive States of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 (2024)
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Conformational cycle of a protease-containing ABC transporter in lipid nanodiscs reveals the mechanism of cargo-protein coupling (2024)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Differential Behavior of Conformational Dynamics in Active and Inactive States of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Cholesterol Dependence of the Conformational Changes in Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1 (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Differential behavior of conformational dynamics in active and inactive states of cannabinoid receptor 1 revealed by microsecond molecular dynamics simulation (2024)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • A purely physics-based computational binding affinity estimation from restrained umbrella sampling simulations (2024)
    Biophysical Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • cpSRP43 Is Both Highly Flexible and Stable: Structural Insights Using a Combined Experimental and Computational Approach (2023)
    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ins and Outs of Rocker Switch Mechanism in Major Facilitator Superfamily of Transporters (2023)
    Membranes 31 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Elucidating the molecular basis of spontaneous activation in an engineered mechanosensitive channel (2023)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Cholesterol dependence on the conformational changes of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGLuR1) (2023)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Binding affinity estimation from restrained umbrella sampling simulations (2022)
    Nature Computational Science 62 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Deciphering the Inter-domain Decoupling in the Gram-negative Bacterial Membrane Insertase (2022)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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