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About Me |
Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Kenyon College
kmetkoj@kenyon.edu |
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Teaching |
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The position at Kenyon College is in part funded by HHMI. The focus of my position is on biological physics; check out the website. |
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Research Interests |
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My research program focuses on addressing
issues hindering efforts in structure
determination of biological molecules by
x-rays, and there are two major bottlenecks.
One, some biological molecules are hard or
impossible to crystallize, and two, when the
crystals are exposed to the intense
synchrotron x-ray beam, they often suffer
severe radiation damage. Eliminating these
two trouble spots would allow the structure
of macromolecules to be determined as soon
as they are discovered. The experiments aim
to address both issues: one, to understand
fundamental aspects of crystallizing
biological molecules, and two, to learn the
physical and chemical mechanisms of
radiation damage during x-ray exposure. |
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