Lab News

  • Alberto selected for the Cadence/Open Eye Outstanding Junior award in Computational Chemistry! thanks!
  • Reza, Bhumika, Yisel, Steven and Elizabeth presented at the Florida ACS meeting and exposition.
  • We are thankful NIH will fund our developments on understanding BET proteins in disease through an R01!
  • Solaine joined for two semesters as an REU student — welcome to the group.
  • Rangana joined the group to work on nucleic acids.
  • Very grateful to have received an NSF MCTC CAREER award to continue developing enhancing sampling strategies for modeling protein-nucleic acid interactions!
  • Our group was awarded seed funding from the American Cancer Society for “Design and characterization of novel cancer therapeutics against BET proteins involved in lung cancer and leukemia”
  • Our group was awarded funding from ARO for studying the role of self-assembling peptides in tissue regeneration.
  • Alberto introduces Machine Learning for protein structure prediction at the “Escuela de Modeled de Biomolecules” workshop in Buenos Aires.
  • Grace and Julie presented their high school summer research experience with our lab using Virtual Reality for modeling peptide drugs. Good luck in your future paths!
  • Congratulations to Liwei for winning the Vala Award for Research Creativity and Originality!
  • Elizabeth Sebastian will go to SBU for an REU experience!
  • Ben Andal will visit Princeton for an REU during the summer!
  • Ben Andal selected to the 2022-23 Beyond120 Chemistry Scholars Award
  • Liwei and Arup selected for an OpenEye summer internship (Mar 15th)
  • Ben Andal and Elizabeth Sebastian were selected to the CLAS Scholars Program (Mar 1st)
  • Lijun Lang to return for a summer internship at IBM (Feb 28th)
  • Presented our work at BPS in San Francisco and advertised the BPS Thematic Meeting we are organizing in Hamburg. (Feb 21)
  • The Sanibel Symposium we co-organize was a success! First meeting in person in a couple of years. Reza, Qianchen, Yisel and Bhumika presented posters. (Feb 16th)
  • Reza and Ben publish their work on DNA clamps