STAFF PROFILE
Professor Toby Allen
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Physics
Phone:
+61 3 9925 0439
Email:
toby.allen@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Lev, B.,Murail, S.,Poitevin, F.,Cromer, B.,Baaden, M.,Delarue, M.,Allen, T. (2017). String method solution of the gating pathways for a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, E4158 - E4167
- Lynagh, T.,Flood, E.,Boiteux, C.,Wulf, M.,Komnatnyy, V.,Colding, J.,Allen, T.,Pless, S. (2017). A selectivity filter at the intracellular end of the acid-sensing ion channel pore In: eLife, 6, 1 - 21
- Vandenberg, J.,Perozo, E.,Allen, T. (2017). Towards a structural view of drug binding to hERG K+ Channels In: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 38, 899 - 907
- Garcia, A.,Pratap, P.,Lupfert, C.,Cornelius, F.,Jacquemin, D.,Lev, B.,Allen, T. (2017). The voltage-sensitive dye RH421 detects a Na+,K+-ATPase conformational change at the membrane surface In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 1859, 813 - 823
- Ngo, V.,Kim, I.,Allen, T.,Noskov, S. (2016). Estimation of potentials of mean force from nonequilibrium pulling simulations using both minh-adib estimator and weighted histogram analysis method In: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 12, 1000 - 1010
- Boiteux, C.,Allen, T. (2016). Understanding sodium channel function and modulation using atomistic simulations of bacterial channel structures In: Current Topics in Membranes, Volume 7, Elsevier, United States
- Cournia, Z.,Allen, T.,Andricioaei, I.,Antonny, B.,Baum, D.,Brannigan, G.,Buchete, N.,Deckman, J.,Delemotte, L.,del Val, C.,Friedman, R.,Gkeka, P.,Hege, H.,H�nin, J.,Kasimova, M.,Kolocouris, A.,Klein, M.,Khalid, S.,Lemieux, M.,Lindow, N.,Roy, M.,Selent, J.,Tarek, M.,Tofoleanu, F.,Vanni, S.,Urban, S.,Wales, D.,Smith, J.,Bondar, A. (2015). Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics: a perspective from experiments and theory In: Journal of Membrane Biology, 248, 611 - 640
- Boiteux, C.,Vorobyov, I.,Allen, T. (2014). Ion conduction and conformational flexibility of a bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 3454 - 3459
- Boiteux, C.,Vorobyov, I.,French, R.,French, C.,Yarov-Yarovoy, V.,Allen, T. (2014). Local anesthetic and antiepileptic drug access and binding to a bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 13057 - 13062
- Yarov-Yarovoy, V.,Allen, T.,Clancy, C. (2014). Computational models for predictive cardiac ion channel pharmacology In: Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 14, 3 - 10
- The structural basis for promiscuity of drug binding to hERG K+ channels (administered by UNSW). Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants 2017 (for funding commencing in 2018) from (2018 to 2020)
- How cholesterol optimises ion pump function in animal membranes (Administered by University of Sydney). Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
- A high-performance cloud resource for computational modelling - led by The University of Melbourne. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2017)
- How do anaesthetics work? A rational basis for safer general anaesthesia.. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants 2016 from (2016 to 2018)
- Predictive multiscale in silico cardio-pharmacology (Administered by UC Davis). Funded by: National Institute of Health Research Project Grant 2015 from (2015 to 2020)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
Computational biophysics, Statistical mechanics, Physical chemistry, Neuroscience, Bionanotechnology, Ion channels, Membranes and membrane proteins