Jeetain Mittal
  • Professor

Primary Appointment: Chemical Engineering

Joint Appointment: Chemistry

Research Areas
  • Chemical Biology
  • Physical
  • Theoretical & Computational

Research Interests

Our research focuses on biomolecular self-assembly processes with a specialization in protein phase separation and nanoparticle superlattice design.

Educational Background

  • B.Tech. Punjab Technical University, 2000
  • M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, 2002
  • Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2007
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Physics (NIH), 2007-2009
  • Joined Texas A&M in 2021

Awards & Honors

  • Impact Award in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering (2018)
  • Department of Energy Early CAREER Award (2015)
  • Allan P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2013)
  • Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship in Chemistry (2014)

Selected Publications

  • Her, Cheenou, et al. "Molecular interactions underlying the phase separation of HP1α: role of phosphorylation, ligand and nucleic acid binding." Nucleic Acids Research 50.22 (2022): 12702-12722.

  • Murthy, Anastasia C., et al. "Molecular interactions contributing to FUS SYGQ LC-RGG phase separation and co-partitioning with RNA polymerase II heptads." Nature structural & molecular biology 28.11 (2021): 923-935.

  • Regy, Roshan Mammen, et al. "Improved coarse‐grained model for studying sequence dependent phase separation of disordered proteins." Protein Science 30.7 (2021): 1371-1379.

  • Mao, Runfang, Evan Pretti, and Jeetain Mittal. "Temperature-controlled reconfigurable nanoparticle binary superlattices." ACS nano 15.5 (2021): 8466-8473.

  • Zheng, Wenwei, et al. "Molecular details of protein condensates probed by microsecond long atomistic simulations." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124.51 (2020): 11671-11679.

  • Schuster, Benjamin S., et al. "Identifying sequence perturbations to an intrinsically disordered protein that determine its phase-separation behavior." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.21 (2020): 11421-11431.