•09/2015- Present Assistant Professor, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
•07/2014- 8/2015 Assistant Professor, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
•07/2013-06/2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Toronto-Canada
•06/2011- 7/2013 Assistant Professor, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
Molecular recognition of DNA by thiazotropsin class analogues through the DNA minor groove.
Hasan Y. Alniss, Stephanie A. T. Dillon, Nahoum G. Anthony, Abedawn I. Khalaf, Simon P. MacKay, Colin J. Suckling and John A. Parkinson. European Journal of Chemical Biology, 15(13):1978-90, 2014.
Thiazotropsin aggregation and its relationship to molecular recognition in the DNA minor
groove.
Marie-Virginie Salvia, Fiona Addison, Hasan Y Alniss, Niklaas J Buurma, Abedawn I Khalaf, Simon P Mackay, Nahoum G Anthony, Colin J Suckling, Maxim P Evstigneev, Adrián Hernandez Santiago, Roger D Waigh, John A Parkinson. Biophysical Chemistry, 2013, 179, 1–11.
Rationalizing sequence selection by ligand assemblies in the DNA minor groove: the case for thiazotropsin A.
Hasan Y. Alniss, Nahoum G. Anthony, Abedawn I. Khalaf, Simon P. Mackay, Colin J. Suckling, Roger D. Waigh, Nial J. Wheate and John A. Parkinson. Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 711-722
Ranking ligand affinity for the DNA minor groove by experiment and simulation.
Wittayanarakul K, Anthony NG, Treesuwan W, Hannongbua S, Alniss H, Khalaf AI, Suckling CJ, Parkinson JA and MacKay SP. Med. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1 (8), 376–380.
A detailed binding free energy study of 2:1 ligand-DNA complex formation by experiment and simulation.
Treesuwan W, Wittayanarakul K, Anthony NG, Huchet G, Alniss H, Hannongbua S, Khalaf AI, Suckling CJ, Parkinson JA and Mackay SP. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009, 11, 10682-10693.
PDB structures:
Four NMR structures have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) under accession code 2mnb, 2nmd, 2mne and 2mnf. Chemical shift assignments have been deposited in the BioMagResBank (BMRB) under accession numbers 19886, 19888, 19889 and 19890.
