Bo Durbeej

 

 

Career profile

• PhD, Uppsala University, 2004

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia, 2005

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Università di Siena, Italy, 2006

• Marie Curie Fellow, Università di Siena, Italy, 2007—2008

• Research Associate, Uppsala University, 2009—2010

• Assistant Professor, Linköping University, 2010—

• Docent, Linköping University, 2011

 

Research

We do computational chemistry research, with particular focus on the areas noted below.

 

Areas of interest

• Photochemistry

• Excited-state properties

• Enzyme catalysis

• Molecular machines

• Intermolecular interactions

 

Funding

• Swedish Research Council (VR), Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006

• EU, Marie Curie Fellowship, 2007—2008

• Carl Trygger Foundation, 2009—2010

• Linköping University, 2010—2014

• Olle Engkvist Foundation, 2012

• Swedish Research Council (VR), 2012—2015

• Wenner-Gren Foundations, 2013 (with Chang-Feng Fang)

 

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the funding sources listed above and the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) in Linköping for enabling our work. 

 

Recent publications 

 

• O Falklöf and B Durbeej

Modeling of phytochrome absorption spectra 

J Comput Chem, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23265 LINK

 

• B Durbeej

A computational perspective on the photochemistry of photosensory proteins: phytochromes and Anabaena sensory rhodopsin 

In Quantum Simulations of Materials and Biological Systems, Eds J Zeng, RQ Zhang and HR Treutlein, Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp 169-194 LINK

 

• M Uppsten and B Durbeej

Quantum chemical comparison of vertical, adiabatic, and 0-0 excitation energies: the PYP and GFP chromophores 

J Comput Chem, 2012, 33, 1892 LINK

 

• D Bucher, GM Sandala, B Durbeej, L Radom and DM Smith

The elusive 5'-deoxyadenosyl radical in coenzyme-B12-mediated reactions 

J Am Chem Soc, 2012, 134, 1591 LINK

 

• A Strambi and B Durbeej

Initial excited-state relaxation of the bilin chromophores of phytochromes: a computational study 

Photochem Photobiol Sci, 2011, 10, 569 LINK

 

• A Strambi,* B Durbeej,* N Ferré and M Olivucci          *Co-first authorship

Anabaena sensory rhodopsin is a light-driven unidirectional rotor

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2010, 107, 21322 LINK

 

• A Strambi and B Durbeej

Excited-state modeling of the astaxanthin dimer predicts a minor contribution from exciton coupling to the bathochromic shift in crustacyanin

J Phys Chem B, 2009, 113, 5311 LINK 

 

• B Durbeej

On the primary event of phytochrome: quantum chemical comparison of photoreactions at C4, C10 and C15

Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2009, 11, 1354 LINK

 

• B Durbeej, GM Sandala, D Bucher, DM Smith and L Radom

On the importance of ribose orientation in the substrate activation of the coenzyme B12-dependent mutases

Chem Eur J, 2009, 15, 8578 LINK