Saeed Najafi

In a minimal tau fibril model, residue 300/301 binds incoming peptide first and carries the most release-prone hydration water. Spin-labelling site 300 impairs locking and suppresses seeded growth.

This paper introduces HydroMap and FastHydroMap models to predict hydrophobicity from water features, enabling rapid and accurate computation of dewetting free energy for proteins and surfaces.

This paper identifies a tau peptide fragment that forms seeding-competent fibrils and shows how the P301L mutation facilitates its aggregation into 4R tauopathy-like structures.