I. C. Baianu, Ph.D., Professor

Biographical Information




FSHN Department,
AFC- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
580 Bevier Hall , 905 S. Goodwin Avenue,
URBANA, Illinois 61801.


email : i-baianu@uiuc.edu


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Tel: (217) 244-6630; Telefax No: ( 217) 244-2517



STATUS: US Citizen


EDUCATION : Ph.D., Biophysics, 1971-1974
Queen Elizabeth College, Department of Physics,
University of London, United Kingdom



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:


1980-to Present: University of Illinois at Urbana


1994-to Present: Professor & Coordinator of AFC-NMR Facility



  • Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins, Lipids, and polysaccharides ; Structural Biology

  • NMR of Protein Structure , Hydration and Dynamics


  • Experimental & Theoretical studies of Protein Interactions, Thermodynamic Linkage
    and Protein Activity

  • Molecular Dynamics of Concentrated Electrolyte and Amino Acid Solutions


  • In vitro and In vivo NMR studies of the Myocardium

  • NMR Analyses of Soybeans and Corn.


    • 1987-1993: Associate Professor

    (Research interests as stated above).


    1982-1986: Assistant Professor

    (Research interests as stated above).


    1980-1982: Research Associate in the School of Chemistry with Professor H.S.Gutowsky, Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA):


    Biophysical Chemistry and NMR of proteins and membranes.


    1979-1980 Senior Scientist at The Lord Rank Research Centre, in the Biophysics Dept., High-Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK :


  • Biophysical Chemistry of Foods

  • Pulsed NMR analyses of meat proteins, wheat gluten and grains

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Wheat Grains and other seeds.


    • 1977-1979: SRC Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, The Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK


  • Structural and Magnetic Resonance studies of noncrystalline materials and relaxation processes;

  • Neutron Scattering studies at the Neutron Reactor Facility at Harwell, Didcot,


    • in collaboration with Dr. Collin Windsor, Fellow of The Royal Society (1995)


    1976: Assistant Manager of Small Business Machines Div. at The International Computers Ltd., London, UK


    HONORS AND AWARDS:


  • 1993: Elected Member, A.R. Academy of Arts and Sciences @ the University of California

  • 1991: American Soybean Association and ICI team Award for "excellence in soybean research"

  • 1988: CRA Fellowship Award, Washington, DC

  • 1983: American Biographical Center Award for "distinguished contributions to Physical Chemistry and Biophysics."

  • 1988-1996: Member of The Senate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • 1974-to date: Convocation Member of The Senate of the University of London

  • 1971-1974: Exceptional Merit, National Education Award in Membrane Biophysics for Crystallographic studies



    • SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:


  • AFC Division of the American Chemical Society

  • Biophysical Society (USA)

  • International Magnetic Resonance Society

  • International EPR Society (USA)

  • The Institute of Physics (London),

  • British Biophysical Society (London)

  • EPS (Geneva)


    PUBLICATIONS:
    Three books, three monographs, 16 chapters in books & a portfolio of 226 peer-reviewed articles.

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS (from a Total of 125):

  • 1. I.C. Baianu,T, You.,D.M. Costescu,V. Prisecaru,P. Lozano and R.L. Nelson. 2004a. High-resolution NMR and Near Infrared Determination of Soybean Oil, Protein and Amino Acid Residues in Soybean Seeds. In “Analysis of Oil Seeds”. D. Luthria, Ed., Champaign: AOCS Publs., pp.193-240

  • 2. I.C. Baianu and V. Prisecaru. 2004b. “Complex Systems Analysis of Cell Cycling Models in Carcinogenesis.” Preprint arXiv/q-bio.OT/0406045 [abs, pdf] :23 pages, 1 Figure.

  • 3. I.C. Baianu,D.M. Costescu,T, You.,V.,P. Lozano, N.E. Hofmann and S.S. Korban.2004c.Near Infrared Microspectroscopy, Fluorescence Microspectroscopy, Infrared Chemical Imaging and High-resolution NMR Analysis of Soybean Seeds, Somatic Embryos and Single Cancer Cells.In “Analysis of Oil Seeds”. D. Luthria, Ed., Champaign: AOCS Publs., pp 241-273

  • 4. I.C. Baianu,T.F. Kumosinski, and T.C. Wei.1998.Molecular Dynamics and NMR Studies of Proteins in Ionic Solutions. ACS, Polymer Preprints 39: 708-709.

  • 5. I.C. Baianu (with T.C. Wei and T.F. Kumosinski). 1994. Molecular Dynamics and Multinuclear Spin Relaxation Studies of Amino Acids, Proline, Myosin and Soy Glycinins in Concentrated Solutions with Electrolytes., Amer. Chem. Soc. Sympos. Proceed. "Molecular Modeling of Proteins", New York: ACS Publs., pp.140-146.Proc. Pfizer-Beckman Institute Symp. Protein Eng. & Design,Urbana

  • 6. I.C. Baianu, Editor. 1992."Physical Chemistry of Food Processes." Vol. 1, (360 pp), a. New York: Van Nostrand-Reinhold.

  • 7. I.C. Baianu, Editor.1993. "Physical Chemistry of Food Processes, Techniques and Applications." Vol. 2 , (with H. Pessen, and T.F. Kumosinski , Co-Editors), 628 pp., Van Nostrand Reinhold , publs., New York, N.Y.

  • 8. I.C. Baianu (with Kakalis, L.T., T.F. Kumosinski).1992. Nonideal Effects of Protein Aggregation / Protein Activity on the Sorption of Water Vapor by Proteins. J. Agric. Food Chem., 40 : 2063-2071.

  • 9. L.T.,Kakalis, and I.C. Baianu. 1990. High-resolution Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance study of the Soybean 7S storage protein fraction in solution. J. Agric. Food Chemistry, 37 :1479-1486.

  • 10. I.C. Baianu, , T.F. Kumosinski , P.J. Bechtel, P.A. Myers-Betts, P.Yakubu and A. Mora. 1990. Multinuclear Spin Relaxation and High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Food Proteins, Agriculturally important materials and related systems., in "NMR Applications in Biopolymers.", J.W. Finley et al., Eds., Plenum Press, New York, pp.361-389.