2021 Seminars


Christina Taylor (Computational Protein Design Lead, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis, MO)

Data Science and Protein Design in Agriculture


 J.C. Gumbart (Associate Professor, School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia)

MD Simulations, Free-energy Calculations, and Machine Learning Applied to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein


Jianing Li (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Vermont)

Multiscale Modeling to Bridge Gaps Between Molecules and Medicines


Juan M. Vanegas (Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Vermont)

Under Pressure: How Mechanical Forces “Shape” the Function of Membranes and Proteins


Jingxin Wang (Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas)

Modulating RNA Splicing by Small Molecules


Albert Pan (Senior Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research)

Atomic-level Characterization of Protein-Protein Association


David Minh (Robert E. Frey, Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation, Illinois Institute of Technology)

Large-scale Protein-ligand Binding Free Energy Calculations Via Implicit Ligand Theory


Gunnar von Heijne (Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

Cotranslational Protein Folding


Dr. Karen Fleming (Professor, T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University)

Bacterial Hot Potato


Professor Zarko Boskovic (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas)

Linear Algebra Methods in a Chemistry and Chemical Biology Laboratory


Lejla Zubcevic (Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center)

Cytoplasmic Interfaces in ThermoTRPV Gating