Team members
Primary Investigator
Marilyn Gunner marilyn.gunner@gmail.com
Developers
Junjun Mao (currently at Levich Institute)
Yifan Song
Christopher Tang (Honig's Lab), Developer of the nonlinear version
Current team:
Previous members:
Postdocs
Emil Alexov. Developing MCCE and applications to photosynthetic RCs.
He's now a Professor of Physics at Clemson University.
Junjun Mao : Developing MCCE and applying it to cytochrome electrochemistry.
He's now a research associate and systems manager at the Levich Institute at CCNY.
Karin Hauser: Calculating the heme electrochemistry in cytochromes (c, f, b562, b5 etc) and cytochrome c oxidase. She is moving from a Junior Professorship in Frankfort to a permanent position in Aachen (in the mid-west of Germany, ~ 60 km from Cologne.
hauser@biophysik.uni-frankfurt.de
Roxana Georgesc: The second major MCCE benchmark paper was her work.
She's now an Associate Research Scientist at Rockefeller University.
Grad students
Minghui Dong (Postdoctorate) rainy.dong@gmail.com
Xuyu Zhu (Graduate student) zhuxuyu@gmail.com
Max Klein (Research Assistant) mck313@nyu.edu
Edison Castro (Research Aide) edraf77@aol.com
Jianxun Lu (Graduate Student) jianxunlu@gmail.com
Musyoka Munyoki (Graduate Student) mmunyoki@gmail.com
Muhamed Amin (Graduate Student) mamin03@ccny.cuny.edu
Jorge Tirado (Undergraduate Student) jtirado1@hotmail.com
Yifong Song (Physics): Developing MCCE and applying it to bacteriorhodopsin proton pumping.
He's now with David Baker at the University of Washington.
Jennifer Madeo (Biomedical engineering): Reaction center experiments - does only ubiquinone work as QB?
She finished her MD and is doing a residency and
Jaili Li (Physics) Reaction center experiments - Electron transfer from QA to QB.
She's now an associate professor at the University of Arkansas
Samir Lipovaca: Worked on placing protons in MCCE and on the carotinoid Stark shift.
He's now at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Qiang Xu (Physics) Reaction center experiments - Electron transfer at low temperatures.
He's now work in the Minor lab at UCSF.
Xinyu Zhang (Physics): Reaction center experiments - mapping the energy landscape for electron transfer.
She's now working at Unilever.
Zhenyu (James) Zhu (Physics): Developing MCCE and applying it to photosynthetic reactions center quinone electrochemistry.
He is now working in finance.
Masters
Becier Tapia (Biochemistry): Using MCCE to study the bc1 and b6f complexes.
Undergrads
Jinran Kim (Physics): Using MCCE to survey the pKs of buried charges in the protein databank.
Now in graduate school at Columbia.
Gennady Khirich (Physics): Worked on calculating ligand binding.
He's now a graduate student at Yale
MCCE mom
Yanjun Yang: Keeping tabs on MCCE code and executables; porting the code to new platforms.
Now working as IT associate at Morgan Stanley