Kasun Gamage

Postdoc, Holmstrom Lab

Contact Info

kkggamage@ku.edu

3007 Haworth Hall

Biography —

Hometown: Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Education —

Ph.D. in Physics, Michigan State University, 2025, Ann Arbor, MI

M.S. in Physics, Central Michigan University, 2019, Mount Pleasant, MI

B.S. in Physics, University of Peradeniya, 2015, Sri Lanka

Research —

My work focuses on understanding the molecular functions associated with the hepatitis C virus genome. Hepatitis C virus is a liver inflammatory disease that can frequently result in cirrhosis and cancer. Using single-molecular FRET I study the confirmational dynamics of selected regions of the genome under different cellular conditions and in the presence of other biomolecules.

Selected Publications —

K Gamage*, B Wang*, ER Hard*, T Van, A Galesic, GR Phillips, M Pratt, and LJ Lapidus. O GlcNAc Modification of α-Synuclein Can Alter Monomer Dynamics to Control Aggregation Kinetics, ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2024 15(16), 3044-3052.

G Valdes-Garcia*, K Gamage*, C Smith, K Martirosova, M Feig, and LJ Lapidus. The Effect of Polymer Length in Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, Cell Reports Physical Science 2023 4(5), 101415.

L Heo*, K Gamage*, G Valdes-Garcia, LJ Lapidus, and M Feig. Characterizing Transient Protein Protein Interactions by Trp-Cys Quenching and Computer Simulations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022 13 (43), 10175-10182.