Jens Smiatek

Dr. Jens Smiatek
Postdoc

Office:	1.032
Phone:	+49 711 685-63757
Fax:	+49 711 685-63658
Email:	smiatek _at_ icp.uni-stuttgart.de
Address:	Dr. Jens Smiatek Institute for Computational Physics Universität Stuttgart Allmandring 3 70569 Stuttgart Germany

Research interests

• Specific DNA structures: i-motif and g-quadruplex

• Protein folding

• Hydrophobic hydration

• Free energy landscapes

• Influence of solvent properties on structure formation (solvent-solute interactions)

• Influence of osmolytes on water structure

• Electrohydrodynamics

• Polyelectrolytes and interactions with ions

• Microscale flows

• Method development

Publications

My profile at "Scholar Google"

• Micciulla, S.; Sanchez, P. A.; Smiatek, J.; Qiao, B.; Sega, M.; Holm, C.; von Klitzing, R.

  Study of atomistic simulation and layer-by-layer formation of oligoelectrolyte multilayers, submitted (2014)

• Smiatek, J.

  Two sides of one coin - High and low concentrated aqueous urea solutions around differently charged spheres, submitted (2014)

• Hickey, O. A.; Holm, C.; Smiatek, J.

  Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of the electrophoretic stretching of polyelectrolytes - the importance of hydrodynamic interactions, submitted (2014)

• Smiatek, J.; Heuer, A.

  Deprotonation mechanism of a single-stranded DNA i-motif, submitted (2014)

• Heuer, A.; Smiatek, J.; Strauss, B.; Riedl, D.

  Informationsgehalt von Fussball-Spieldaten, submitted (2014)

• Bohner, M. U.; Zemann, J.; Smiatek, J.; Arnold, A.; Kästner, J.

  Nudged-elastic band used to find reaction coordinates based on the free energy, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 074109 (2014)

• Smiatek, J.; Wohlfarth, A. and Holm, C.

  The solvation and ion condensation properties for sulfonated polyelectrolytes in different solvents - a computational study, New J. Phys. 16, 025001 (2014)

• Smiatek, J.

  Osmolyte effects: Impact on the aqueous solution around charged and neutral spheres, J. Phys. Chem. B. 118, 771 (2014)

• Smiatek, J.; Janssen-Mueller, D.; Friedrich, R. and Heuer, A.

  Systematic detection of hidden complexities in the unfolding mechanism of a cytosine-rich DNA strand, Physica A 394, 136 (2014)

• Smiatek, J.; Harishchandra, R. K.; Galla, H.-J. and Heuer, A.

  Low concentrated hydroxyectoine solutions in presence of DPPC lipid bilayers: a computer simulation study, Biophys. Chem. 180–181, 102 (2013)

• Hentschel, C.; Wagner, H.; Smiatek, J.; Heuer, A.; Fuchs, H.; Zhang, X.; Studer, A. and Chi, L.

  AFM-based force spectroscopy on polystyrene brushes: Effect of brush thickness on protein adsorption, Langmuir 29, 1850 (2013)

• Smiatek, J.; Wagner, H.; Hentschel C.; Chi, L.; Studer, A. and Heuer, A.

  Coat thickness dependent adsorption of hydrophobic molecules at polymer brushes, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 044904 (2013)

• Smiatek, J.; Liu, D. and Heuer, A.

  Unfolding pathways and the free energy landscape of a single-stranded DNA i-motif, From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB11), IAS Series 8, 201 (2012)

• Meinhardt, S.; Smiatek, J.; Eichhorn, R. and Schmid, F.

  Separation of chiral particles in micro- or nanofluidic channels, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214504 (2012)

• Smiatek, J.; Harishchandra, R. K.; Rubner, O.; Galla, H.-J. and Heuer A.

  Properties of compatible solutes in aqueous solution, Biophys. Chem. 160, 62 (2012)

• Smiatek, J. and Schmid, F.:

  Mesoscopic simulation methods for studying flow and transport in electric fields in micro- and nanochannels, invited chapter for Advances in Microfluidics, edited by Ryan T. Kelly, InTech, Rijeka (2012)

• Smiatek, J.; Liu, D. and Heuer, A.

  High temperature unfolding simulations of a single-stranded DNA i-motif, Curr. Phys. Chem. 2, 115 (2012)

• Smiatek, J.; Chen, C.; Liu, D. and Heuer, A.

  Stable conformations of a single-stranded deprotonated DNA i-motif, J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 13788 (2011)

• Smiatek, J. and Schmid, F.

  Mesoscopic simulations of electroosmotic flow and electrophoresis in nanochannels, Comp. Phys. Comm. 182, 1941 (2011)

• Smiatek, J. and Heuer, A.

  Calculation of free energy landscapes: a histogram reweighted metadynamics approach, J. Comp. Chem. 32, 2084 (2011)

• Smiatek, J. and Schmid F.

  Mesoscopic simulations of polyelectrolyte electrophoresis in nanochannels in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '10; Springer, Heidelberg (2011)

• Smiatek, J. and Schmid, F.

  Polyelectrolyte electrophoresis in nanochannels: a Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulation, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 6266 (2010)

• Smiatek, J.; Sega, M.; Schiller, U. D.; Holm, C. and Schmid, F.

  Mesoscopic simulations of the counterion-induced electro-osmotic flow: A comparative study, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 244702 (2009)

• Smiatek J.

  Mesoscopic simulations of electrohydrodynamic phenomena, PhD thesis, Bielefeld University, Germany (2009)

• Smiatek, J.; Allen, M. P. and Schmid, F.

  Tunable-slip boundaries for coarse-grained simulations of fluid flow, Europ. Phys. J. E 26, 115 (2008)

Multimedia

• High temperature unfolding dynamics of a single-stranded deprotonated DNA i-motif