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Dr. Omneya Nassar


Lecturer


Dr. Ben Martin

Contact Information

Office:  CENT 340F

Phone:  (512) 245-7135

Fax:  (512) 245-2374

email:  aij18@txstate.edu

Educational Background

  • B.S., Biochemistry, St. Edward's University (Austin, TX) 2013
  • Ph.D.,  Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX) 2019

Honors and Awards

  • Best Talk at the Second Annual Pharmacology and Toxicology Symposium, 2018
  • 23 rd Annual SCSB Symposium Poster Award, 2018
  • Chemical Computing Group Travel Award to National ACS Meeting in Boston, 2018
  • Best Logo Design in 22nd SCSB Annual Symposium Logo Competition, 2017
  • Bachelors of Science Degree with Magna Cum Laude Honor, 2013
  • Welch Foundation Scholarship, 2011-2013
  • Distinguished Biochemistry Student of the Year at St. Edward’s University, 2013
  • Jimmy Mills Scholarship, 2012
  • Faculty Scholarship Award, 2011-2013
  • American Chemical Society: Commendable Chapter Award, 2012
  • Academic Competitive Grant, 2009-2013
Areas of Interest

Pharmacology and toxicology, drug discovery, and computational biology


Recent Publications

Nassar, OM, Pettitt, BM, Smith, TJ. Discovery of a 40-year-old Sequence Error Unveils New Understanding of Allosteric Ligand Binding to Glutamate Dehydrogenase. Poster presented at National American Chemical Society Meeting in Boston, MA. August 2018.

Nassar, OM, Pettitt, BM. Ligand-GDH Interactions Using a Computational Approach. Poster presented at the Annual Structural Biology Symposium in Galveston TX. April 2016.

Nassar, OM, Pettitt, BM. Thermodynamics of Ligand Binding to Glutamate Dehydrogenase. Poster presented at the Keck Center Annual Research Conference in Houston TX. October 2015.

Nassar, OM, Pettitt, BM. Electrostatic Binding Energy Calculations of Acetylcholinesterase-Fasciculin II Complex. Poster presented at the Keck Center Annual Research Conference in Houston TX. October 2014.

Nassar, O. M., Wong, K. Y., Lynch, G. C., Smith, T. J., & Pettitt, B. M. (2019). Allosteric discrimination at the NADH/ADP regulatory site of glutamate dehydrogenase. Protein Science, 28(12), 2080-2088.