Academic Activities

• • My Academic Activities Include:

• • • • International Oral Presentations

1.     Twana Salih. Optimising the accuracy of the MM-GBSA approach for calculating protein-protein binding free energies. (2015, January). 4th Annual CCP-BioSim Conference, Frontiers of Biomolecular Simulation, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK.

2.     Twana Salih, Weng Chan, Charlie Laughton. Comparing the Accuracy of a Single and Replicate MM-GBSA Approach for Calculating Protein-Protein Binding Free Energies. (2014, October). Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society, Young Modellers’ Forum (YMF), SOAS, University of London, UK.

3.     Twana Salih. Evaluation and Optimisation of the MM-GBSA Method for the Study of Protein-Peptide Interactions. (2013, May). 2nd Annual CCP-BioSim Conference, Frontiers of Biomolecular Simulation, University of Nottingham, UK.

4.     Twana Salih, Aneesa Ahmed, Abdullahi Abbas. (2012, November). A greener way to treat wastewater. Biotechnology YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme), Manchester, UK.

• • • • Poster Presentations

1.     Twana Salih. (2014, May). Investigating the reliability of the MMGBSA method for predicting protein-ligand binding free energies. 3rd Annual CCP-BioSim Conference: Frontier of Biomolecular Simulation, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2.     Twana Salih, Weng Chan, Lodewijk Dekker, Charles Laughton. (2014, April). The inhibition of protein-protein interactions within telomeres: a route to cancer chemotherapy. Telomeres, Telomerase and Disease, An EMBO Conference Series, Brussels, Belgium.

3.     Twana Salih, Weng Chan, and Charlie Laughton. (2013, September). The disruption of TRF1 protein - TIN2 peptide interactions in telomeres as a promising approach to cancer chemotherapy. Kurdistan Students Conference, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, UK.

Professional Trainings

                Pharmacy Curriculum Development Workshop

                Hosted by the College of Pharmacy, HMW, Hawler, Iraq, 20 April 2017

               Resources for Computational Drug Discovery Advance Course

               Hosted by Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 2-6 November 2015

              NSCCS AMBER Workshop

        Hosted by the EPSRC UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software, Imperial College London, London, UK, 3rd-7th          September 2012