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Wed, 05/22/2024

IMPRESS-U Award

The Vakser Lab received an NSF award from IMPRESS-U (International Multilateral Partnerships for Resilient Education and Science System in Ukraine) program. This multinational partnership initiative supports excellence in science and engineering research, education, and innovation through international collaboration, and promotes and catalyzes integration of Ukrainian researchers in the global research...

Wed, 12/28/2022

Vakser Lab receives $1M NSF grant to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations

The Vakser Lab received a 3 year $1M award from the National Science Foundation "UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO: Modeling of protein interactions to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations”. The project (a collaboration with the Imperial College, London) focuses on application of computational techniques to the development of a public resource incorporating structural modeling of proteins and protein assemblies with genetic amino acid variants and assessment of their functional impact.
Thu, 10/06/2022

Vakser Lab Work Opens a New Chapter in Cell Modeling

A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences puts forward a novel approach to computer modeling of molecular mechanisms of life. The approach is capable of reaching extra-long simulation times of cell-sized molecular systems at atomic resolution, to address cellular phenomena which now is far beyond the capabilities of the existing techniques. More at https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966821.
Mon, 09/12/2022

Joanna Slusky receives $1.5M NSF Molecular Foundations of Biotechnology award

Associate Professor Joanna Slusky received an NSF Molecular Foundations of Biotechnology award titled: MFB: NSF-BSF: Data-Adaptive and Metamorphosis Machine Learning Architectures for Generative Protein Design of Metal Biosensors. This is a three year $1.5 million award for fundamentally new approaches in chemistry to drive new directions in biotechnology. ...

Wed, 08/03/2022

Joanna Slusky Elected to Protein Society Executive Council

Associate Professor Joanna Slusky was elected to a three year term as a member of the executive committee of The Protein Society. The Protein Society is an international, not-for-profit, scholarly society with the mission to provide forums for the advancement of research into protein structure, function, design and applications. ...

Tue, 11/30/2021

Jinan Wang Receives 2022 KU Research Staff Achievement Award

KU Research Staff Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to methods developments and cutting-edge applications of computational drug discovery. The award was established in 2018 to recognize contributions of staff researchers to the research mission of the University of Kansas. Dr. Wang will be recognized at a ceremony held in April...

Mon, 09/13/2021

MIAO lab Work Published in Nature

Congratulations to the Miao Lab for a paper published in Nature, entitled “Positive allosteric mechanisms of adenosine A1 receptor-mediated analgesia”. The work is in collaboration with the Alisa Glukhova, Wendy Imlach and Arthur Christopoulos Labs at Monash University in Australia. The team has combined cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy, in-vitro biochemical assays,...

Mon, 06/14/2021

Yinglong Miao Wins Openeye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Yinglong Miao is one of the winners of the OpenEye outstanding Junior Faculty award managed by the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. The competitive award identifies junior stars in the area of computational chemistry and modeling. ...