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Awards

January 2023 University of Kelaniya Vice Chancellor’s award for the outstanding young researcher

April 2023 University of Kelaniya Senate Honors for Research

April 2021 University of Kelaniya Senate Honors for Research

January 2019 NIH K-INBRE (Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) Postdoctoral Award
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Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science

Degrees:

2017
Jayangika Dahanayake > Degrees
Chemical Sciences
2011
Jayangika Dahanayake > Degrees
Chemical Sciences

Publications resulting from Research
1. Doan, L. C., Dahanayake, J. N., Mitchell-Koch, K. R., Singh, A. K., & Vinh, N. Q. (2022). Probing Adaptation of Hydration and Protein Dynamics to Temperature. ACS omega, 7 (25), 22020-22031.
2. Rajapaksha, H., Pandithavidana, D. R., & Dahanayake, J. N. (2021). Demystifying Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu): Computational Interaction Analysis of Pesticides and Metabolites with Vital Renal Enzymes. Biomolecules, 11(2), 261.
3. Jayangika N. Dahanayake, Elaheh Shahryari, Kirsten M. Roberts, Micah Heikes, Chandana Kasireddy, Katie R. Mitchell-Koch; “Protein Solvent Shell Structure Provides Rapid Analysis of Hydration Dynamics”; J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00009
4. “How does solvation layer mobility affect protein structural dynamics?”; Jayangika N. Dahanayake, Katie R. Mitchell-Koch, Front. Mol. Biosci., 2018, 5:65, DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00065
5. “Entropy connects water structure and dynamics in protein hydration layer”; Jayangika N. Dahanayake, Katie R. Mitchell-Koch, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 14765-14777.
6. “Evaluating electronic structure methods for accurate calculation of 19F chemical shifts in fluorinated amino acids”; Jayangika N. Dahanayke, Chandana Kasireddy, Jonathan M. Ellis, Olivia A. Hull, Dylan Morlan, Katie R. Mitchell-Koch, J. Comp. Chem., 2017, 38, 2605-2617.
7. “To keep or not to keep? The question of crystallographic waters for enzyme simulations in organic solvent”; Dahanayake, Jayangika Niroshani; Gautam, Devaki N.; Verma, Rajni; Mitchell-Koch, Katie., Mol. Sim., 2016, 42 (12), 1001-1013.

Proteins, Gordon Research Conference
2025
icon-pin-location Holderness, NH, USA

Proteins, Gordon Research Conference
2025
icon-pin-location Holderness, NH, United States