September 23, 2025 - BPS announces 2026 Society Award Recipients
Dr. Charles L. Broooks III will receive the Klaus Schulten and Zaida Luthey-Schulten Computational Biophysics Lecture Award.Â
A warm welcome to Marcella who has joined the group!
We are excited to hear that Xiaorong has accepted the position as Assitant Professor at the University of New Mexico. Congratulations to Xiaorong, and we will miss her!!
Yujin Wu received a Graduate Student Poster Award for his presentation entitled "Development of Flexible CDOCKER and its Application in Identifying Putative Inhibitors Against TMPRSS2, as a Potential Anti-CoV-2 Therapeutic. Congrats! Well done!
Tricia gave a great thesis defense seminar. Wonderful attendance and support from her friends and colleagues. Another Brooksian Ph.D. Asst Prof of Data Science at Carolina University
Amanda did an outstanding job and presenting and defending her thesis today. A new Brooksian takes her place in making science happen as a Ph.D.
Congratulations to former Brooks Group Member Xinqiang Ding in receiving ACS PHYS Young Investigator Awatd. Look for him at Fall ACS.
Azam passed his Candidacy exam - congratulations candidate Azam!
Huge congrats to Chad for an outstanding candidacy exam
Great news, Tricia has accepted position as Assistant Professor at Carolina College. Congratulations Tricia!
Azam Hussain joins the group! Welcome Azam.
We are all excited to hear Brooks group member Tricia participate in an ACS panel on Biochemistry and Artificial Intelligence.
We are excited to announce that Ryan has moved to an Assistant Research Scientist position within the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations Ryan.
The Brooks Group sends out a big welcome to incoming graduate student Dalia Hassan who is doing her fall rotation in the group. Welcome Dalia!
Dr Liu joins us from Jianhan Chen's group at U Mass, Amherst. Big welcome to Xiaorong.
The Brooks Group welcomes Ms Lily Paul, recently joining us from birth! TJ and family are happy and well!
TJ and Rachel expanded their family by one last night. Daughter Lily and Rachel are doing well. Congratulations to you all!
We say (officially) goodbye to REU coworker Furyal Ahmed this week. Furyal gave an excellent presentation at today's group meeting. She has worked closely with our COVID-19 team and made excellent progress! Thanks Furyal.
Efrosini gave a beautiful thesis presentation in the successful defense of her thesis. Congratulations! Efrosini is heading of to a postdoc with Byron Caughey's lab at the NIH in Montana.
Machine learning and protein sequences! Deciphering protein evolution and fitness landscapes with latent space models (Link)
Check out the great story about Tricia! (Link)
Check out the great story about Tricia! (Link)
The Brooks Group welcomes back Nick following his leave, and the birth of his new son. Glad you're back Nick and congratulations.
We are sad to see Marc finish his temporary assignment in the group, taking over for Nick during his leave. Thanks Marc!
Yujin successfully passed his candidacy exam with flying colors. Great job!
Exciting new paper from Sara and Troy as part of Narayan/ZImmerman collaboration, see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08178
Yanming's paper exploring the role of electrostatics in allostery and a novel HREX method are described in his latest accepted paper in JPC Lett (just accepted)!
Arghya Chakravorty comes to us from Clemson to workon amyloid beta simulations.
Today we say farewell to Juanrong, who came as a visitor from China for 6 months, and Parveen, who worked with us for a bit over a year. Juanrong will continue her Ph.D. studies at Tsinghua University. Parveen is moving on to a new stage of his career, hoping to embrace data science.
Yanming and Jonah presented excellent posters on their work on GPU accelerated Generalized Born models (Yanming) and MSLD bench marking on BACE I. Tricia and Jonah presented exceptional talks on ML -MATCH and Gibbs Sampler MSLD. Great job from all!
Charlie wins National ACS Award for Computers in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Link)
Excellent poster presentations from Amanda, TJ, Ryan and Efrosini in Seattle. We all had a great time exploring Protein Science and Seattle.
Great job Ryan!
Great interactions and great poster presentation by Hedi at the Proteins GRC in Holderness, NH. Way to go Hedi!
Congratulations to Tony on his recruitment to Baylor School of Medicine where he will start as an Assistant Professor in 2019/20.
Congratulations to Xinqiang and his move postdoctoral studies in the Bin Zhang lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. (Link)
Congratulations to Jonah, current Brooks Group Postdoc, for landing a faculty position at IU School of Medicine. Jonah will move to his new position in August. We will miss him!
Brooks Group members participate in the Annual Protein Folding Consortium Meeting this weekend at Wash U, St Louis. Three days of scientific exchange and networking!
Congratulations to former Brooks Group member Joe Yesselman. He will start as an Assistant Professor and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln this fall.
Sara will present her work on "Exploring Flavin Dynamics in Biocatalyst TropB with Theory and Molecular Modeling" at Colorado conference of MD/PhD students in mid-July.
Congratulations to Efrosini in winning a Rackham Travel Award. Efrosini will present her research on pH-mediated chemical shifts in proteins and peptides at the meeting.
Congratulations to Tricia for winning a position to speak at the Women make COMP program as part of the San Diego ACS meeting in August. (Link)
Congratulations to Efrosini on having her paper "Modeling pH Dependent NMR Chemical Shift Perturbations in Peptides" accepted in the Biophysical Journal. Onto proteins and pH!
Hearty congratulations to Ryan Hayes for winning recognition of the Protein SOciety's Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Award! Great job Ryan.
Congratulations to Ryan for winning the Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Travel Award from the Protein SOciety. Ryan will present his work as part of the 33rd Symposium of the Protein Society in Seattle this June/July! (Link)
Please welcome Nick O'Hair who will join the BrooksLab as JCC Editorial Assistant and Administrative Assistant. Nick joins us from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
Sara's first paper as part of our collaboration with the Narayan group on enzyme re-engineering. Keep up the publishing!
Congratulations to Xinqiang for an excellent thesis defense and completion of a great thesis. Xinqiang is off to postdoc at the University of Chicago, bringing his expertise and experience to a new field (for him), computational neurobiology.
The Brooks Lab welcomes new group member TJ, who joins us from the University of Miami. Welcome TJ.
Great news, though expected, our fellow Brooks group member and MSTP graduate student Sara Tweedy successfully passed her candidacy exam in the Program in Chemical Biology today. Congratulations Sara!
Congratulations to Daniel Evans, Noor SoHail and Milo Hartsoe who gave outstanding talks at our group meeting today. Noor explored benchmark comparisons between TI and MSLD and Milo and Daniel discussed the nature and quality of ancestral sequence reconstructions on model parameters. Great material!
Graduate student Xinqiang Ding won a prestigious Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Great going Xinqiang!
The Brooks Group is interested in hiring an applications programmer to work with the CHARMM development team to implement CHARMM functionality on high performance computing platforms, GPUs and parallel architectures. (Link)
Xinqiang, Ryan and Jonah will each present talks on their current research at the ACS National meeting in DC next week on M, T and W. See you in the audience!
Former Brooks group postdoc Elena Laricheva accepted a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Utah Valley University. Big congrats from Brooks group! (Link)
Xinqiang returned from vacation as married person, knock me over with a feather. Congratulations!!!
Congrats to Tricia for being selected to be supported on the Bioinformatics Training Grant for a second year!
The Brooks group congratulates Tricia on her wedding. Enjoy your post wedding holidays.
MD/PhD Student Sara Tweedy begins her PhD work in the lab today. Welcome aboard Sara!
New postdoc Hedieh joins the lab today. Welcome Hedi!
Congratulations to Charlie for being one of seven faculty members named Distinguished University Professors! Seven faculty members have received one of the University of Michigan's top honors as Distinguished University Professors. The Board of Regents approved the appointments on Thursday. They are effective Sept. 1. Recently appointed DUPs are invited to give an inaugural lecture that highlights their work at the university. The lecture is typically delivered during the first or second full year of their appointments.
A new Brooks group member as Jonah and Michele gave birth to a new son, Gabriel, born 5#15oz. Mom and son are doing well. Best wishes to you all as you settle in with your expanded family.
Congratulations to Alex, he has moved to a new position as a system engineer at NouMoDx Molecular. Good luck in the next stage of your career Alex.
The Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to three European Scientists (though one now is at Northwestern) for their work on molecular machines. Cool stuff! (Link)
Chemistry and Biophysics have organized a symposium recognizing Charlie's accomplishments during his first 60 years. Symposium speakers include: Cathy Royer (RPI), Ron Levy (Temple) and Ken Houk (UCLA).
Amanda Peiffer will be rotating in the Brooks Group this semester. Amanda is from the Chemical Biology graduate program and is working on predicting the structures of VP16(aH1):Med25(AciD) and VP16:Med25(AciD) transcriptional activator complexes. Welcome Amanda!
Garrett Meek will join us from MSU as a postdoc. He will work on developing transferable coarse-grained models for protein-protein interactions.
Protein Society elections for new officers find Charlie as winning candidate for President. He will serve as President-elect (with Carol Post) for one year, followed by two years as President and one as Past President. Congratulations Charlie.
Jonah is starting as a postdoc in the group with a focus on multi-site lambda dynamics and free energy methods. Welcome aboard Jonah.
Jessica will join us for the summer and will begin graduate studies in Chemistry in the fall. Jessica is working on constant pH molecular dynamics. Welcome to the group Jessica.
The Brooks Group Welcomes our newest graduate student colleagues, Murchtricia Charles will be joining us from the Bioinformatics graduate program and Yanming Wang is coming to the group from the Chemistry program. Welcome!
Congratulations to Kira and her new position with Merck. Kira will start her new position early this summer.
Great News, Aaaron Frank accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Biophysics and Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Congratulations Aaron. Aaron will start his new faculty position on July 1.
A 3 day symposium was held in Charlie's honor at ACS San Diego, with many former and current group members and colleagues in attendance!
Shuai and his wife gave birth to a baby girl last night. Congratulations on your family addition!
Welcome Nicholas, winter rotation student in the chemical biology program.
The dynamic duo, Super G-man and Boy-Arthur pose with "boss man" and his colleague Arnold the tin snowman after graduation yesterday. Good luck guys!
Congratulations to Josh and Jody on the birth of baby Florian, born 8 pm December 7th. Baby Florian is 7 lbs and mom and baby are doing well
A big hurrah to Efrosini for an excellent candidacy presentation and defense. Now the fun starts!
Congrats to Liz in passing her candidacy exam today! One more hurdle down.
Welcome Yanming! He joins us for a rotation this semester. Yanming is a chemistry student.
Blair Whittington, now a sophomore, returns for the fall semester. Great to see her in group meeting - we need representation from Walled Lake :-)
We all wish Maral a hearty welcome as she joins us for a rotation this semester. Maral is a PIBS Biophysics student.
The Brooks Group welcomes Ryan Hayes to the group. Ryan recently finished his Ph.D. with Jose' Onuchic at Rice University.
Congratulations to the "fearless leader" Charlie, who was elected to the 2016 class of Fellows of the Biophysical Society. Charlie will receive his award/recognition at the LA BPS Meeting in February, 2016. (Link)
Tony was recently awarded the Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Postdoctoral work he is carrying-out with Kevin Weeks at UNC, Chapel Hill. Congratulations Tony! (Link)
Congratulations on an excellent Ph.D. thesis defense by Jessica Gagnon!Â
Congratulations to Alexis Okainski on a successful summer REU. Alexis presented her work at the REU symposium to an audience of Physicists and Biophysicists. Alexis worked with Logan and Alex over the summer on coarse graining of protein-protein interactions.Â
Charlie helped run sessions at the annual CHARMM Developers meeting. This year hosted by Stefan Boresh in Vienna, Austria.Â
Welcome to the group for your first rotation Tricia! Good luck!
Liz, Efrosini, Alex, and Blair and Logan all presented posters at the Proteins Gordon Research Conference at Holderness School, Plymouth, NH this week. Great science, hiking, and networking. Congratulations on excellent poster presentations to all.
Congratulations on an excellent Ph.D. thesis defense by Garrett. Garrett joined the Brooksian family of Ph.D.s with an outstanding presentation and an excellent thesis.
Welcome to the group Efrosini!
Brooks group welcome to Alexis. She will be working with Logan and Alex this summer. Have a great experience, and get lot's of good research done!
Congratulations to Blair Whittington, Jessica Sullivan and Jade Varineau for a successful year of research. Hard to believe you were only Frosh! Thanks to to your mentors, Logan Alhstrom and Karunesh Arora for providing guidance and direction.
Congratulations to Alex on his decision to join the faculty of Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in January, 2016. Alex will be a joint faculty in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE).
Congratulations to Garrett for winning/accepting the prestigious Linus Pauling Postdoctoral Fellowship at PNNL. Garrett will work in a semi-independent manner beginning in the fall. Great job!
Group members presented work in Multi-site lambda dynamics, flexible CDOCKER and Cyan Fluorescent Protein at the National ACS Meeting in Denver. Great job! (Link)
Congratulations Afra on paper number 9 of the year!
Tony's paper on mitochondrial RNA folding and stability examined with TOPRNA will appear shortly in JACS. Thanks to Tony for a great job, and our collaborators, Carol Fierke, Hashim Al-Hashimi, Paul Lin and Xin Liu.
Charlie will spend 1-2 months visiting the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He has received a prestigious Visiting Professorship during his visit.
Congratulations to Mauricio on publication of his paper on "Protein-protein interaction pattern discovery platform for the structural analysis of virus capsids using Google Maps". Exploring viral capsid protein-protien interfaces.
Kira's and Garrett's paper "Biasing Potential Replica Exchange Multi-Site Lambda-Dynamics for Efficient Free Energy Calculations" is accepted for publication in JCTC. Nice job!
Paper number four for the year "pH-dependent Transient Conformational States Control Optical Properties of Cyan Fluorescent Protein" ia accepted in JACS. Congratulations Elena, Garrett and Alex.
Xinqiang passed his candidacy exam in Bioinformatics. He's now a PhD candidate! Great job.
Congratulations to Alex and Isabella on the birth of Florence Elizabeth de Barbaro at 8:12 PM, January 19. Sheâ8 lbs 12 oz and she, mom and Alex are doing great. Itâwonderful to welcome a new Brooks group member into the world:-)
Congratulations Shanshan.
Our paper "Residue level resolution of alphavirus envelope protein interactions in pH dependent fusion" was accepted for publication in PNAS. Great job Fox and Tuli!
The paper by Logan, Alex and Sean - Multiscale Modeling of a Conditionally Disordered pH-Sensing Chaperone - will appear in JMB shortly. This paper outlines a complete multi-scale approach for examining structure-function relationships in the conditionally disordered HdeA protein chaperone. Congratulations guys!
The Brooks Group Wishes Everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Huiyu Li is heading back to her faculty position in China this weekend. She will continue her collaborative research with the group. We wish her well on her return home, and will miss her.
Great job Aiman! Good luck with your school year at Wellesley.
Afra moves to BU in a teaching-postdoc position with John Straub. Good luck Afra!
The Brooks group congratulates Shanshan ( Sunshine ) on the birth of her daughter Annie ( Zixuan Ann Wang ) at 3:35 AM Monday morning ( September 21). Shanshan, daughter and family are doing well, though somewhat sleep deprived. Mazel tov!
Welcome Mina, we look forward to a productive semester!
Efrosini joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Efrosini!
Sunshine (and daughter) gave an outstanding thesis defense talk. We wish her the best as she launches the next stages of her career and life as a parent and researcher in Singapore. We will miss you Sunshine.
Alex joins us from UCSB where he completed his Ph.D. with Joan Shea. We look forward to Alex's productivity and interactivity. Welcome Alex!
We will all miss Tony as he moves on to postdoctoral studies at Duke. We congratulate him on his outstanding thesis and defense. His champagne bottle joins the others in anticipation of more great things to come. Keep in touch Tony, we’ll miss you!
Grandpa Charlie with his new (and first) granddaughter Madison Grace. He's telling her about protein folding!
We will bid a fond adieu to Sean and Xiancheng as they transition to new positions at TD Ameritrade Advanced Technology and Innovation Center (Ann Arbor, MI) and IBM Watson Research Center (Cambridge, MA), respectively. Good luck in your new careers! We'll miss you:-)!
This collaborative work examined frustration in the folding of the CheY protein through the innovative use of coarse-grained simulations to study circular permutants of CheY. Congratulations, Karunesh!
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Their work, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Anna Mapp, presented novel methods for studying allostery using a coarse-grained model and provided new insights into the allosteric regulation of IDPs. Congratulations, Sean and Jessica!
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Liyi (æ Žä¼Š), was born on Independence Day , weighing in at 7lb 2oz!
Welcome to the group, Xinqiang!
Congratulations Charlie!
Congratulations to Logan for receiving an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Great job Logan!
Welcome aboard Liz! Fold your ancestors!
Welcome Aiman Sherani, biophysics REU, physics major from Wellesley College, and Nathan Jenkins, med chem REU, chemistry/comp sci major, New Mexico State University. Looking forward to a successful summer!
The Brooks Group helped organize and participated in the Protein Folding Consortium Meeting, May 30 - June 1 here in Ann Arbor. Poster presentations by Karunesh, Alex, Sean, Logan, Jessica and Liz. Alex gave an "Ignite talk" - 20 slides, self-advancing every 15 seconds, 5 minutes total - awesome job.
Five students presented their research in collaboration with UROP sponsors Aaron, Garrett, Karunesh, and Logan.
Aaron and his wife welcomed Azmeer Terrence Abbasi-Frank to their family. Mother and baby are doing well.
The Brooks and Feig labs meet in between Ann Arbor and East Lansing for a Saturday ski trip at Mt. Brighton.
In a collaborative project with Bob Matthews on the folding of TIM barrel proteins, Karunesh receives funding for his contributions in NIH grant. Congratulations "special K".
Congratulations to Karunesh for submitting his first NIH grant as PI. Good luck!
We presented our work focusing on complex and pH-dependent folding processes.
Congratulations to Fox and Garrett in winning their grant for supercomputing time of ~5M processor hours.
Members of the Brooks lab (and Professor Zimmerman) take a Sunday trip to Detroit to watch a baseball game between the Tigers and the Chicago White Sox.
Elena gave an invited talk in the Phys Division of ACS at the National meeting in Indianapolis on her recently published work describing the mechanism of pH-mediated switching from inactive to active forms of rhodopsin.
Joe did an excellent job defending his dissertation yesterday and now joins the rank of Ph.D.'s who have been associated with the Brooks Group. Congratulations to Joe and good luck in your new position in California!
Graduate students, Garrett Goh and Jessica Gagnon both presented posters at the 2013 Vaughn Symposium.
Harish is off to start his new faculty adventure as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Good luck Harish, we'll look for your papers! (Link)
In the recent elections for the Protein Society, Professor Brooks was elected for a three year term on the Executive Council. (Link)
Summer REU student, Karandeep (KD) Singh, presents a poster from his project with Karunesh at the Khorana Scholar Mini-Symposium.
Zunliang Wang will join us for six months or so to work with Shuai and Taehoon on the abiotic/biotic interfaces project. Welcome Zunliang!
Bin Zhang moves on to a new position with Ron Levy at Temple University. Good luck Bin!
We welcome Aaron Frank as a new postdoctoral researcher in the lab. Aaron won the prestigious University of Michigan Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship and he joins us today. Aaron was an graduate student with Ioan Andricioaei at UC, Irvine and just finished an industrial postdoctoral experience with Nymirum. Glad to have you aboard Aaron.
Garret was chosen by the Chemistry Department as one of their nominees for the prestigious HHMI graduate student fellowship and just learned he was awarded this honor. Outstanding Garret, congratulations.
Let's all welcome Kira to the lab. Kira comes to us after finishing her Ph.D. with Orlando Acevedo.
Garrett attended the Nucleic Acids Gordon Research Conference at the University of New England. He presented work on DNA/RNA Constant pH molecular dynamics.
Biophysics REU student Alexander Jalota from UMBC will join the lab for the summer. Welcome Alexander!
We welcome summer REU student from India, KD. KD is working with Karunesh this summer. We look forward to exciting results!
Our work on folding of CheY circular permutants, folding of RNAse H and folding networks will be discussed as part of the annual PFC meeting in Berkeley this weekend.
Congratulations to Garrett on winning the Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award in the Chemistry Department! Well done Garrett.
Congratulations Harish at successfully navigating the academic faculty maze! We will miss you when you leave at summer's end, but look forward to seeing lot's of productivity coming from New England! (Link)
Alex, Karunesh and Logan all attended and presented current work on aspects of protein folding at the Midwest Protein Folding Conference at Notre Dame.
Evan Arthur, Jessica Gagnon, and Garrett Goh presented their research at this year's ACS meeting in New Orleans. Their talks were well received and well attended.
Shuai and his wife have a new family member as of this morning, a son. Baby William was born 6 lbs 4oz. Congratulations!
On January 18th Xiancheng (Fox) will be married! Congratulations Fox. Can we throw rice?
Logan Ahlstrom begins his postdoctoral studies in the Brooks lab. He joins us from the University of Arizona.
Michela was named the David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair in Computer and Information Sciences. Michela is an Associate Professor at the University of Deleware. Congratulations Michela! (Link)
Afra Panahi arrives at the Brooks lab to start her postdoctoral studies. Afra joins us from Michigan State. All welcome Afra.
In time for turkey, Shuai arrives to start postdoctoral studies in the group. Welcome Shuai!
Former postdoc David and his partner Ursala welcomed their son Julian into the world at 6:07 PM. Congratulations!
Shanshan and Sean attend the biannual MPI (Modeling Protein Interactions) workshop. Both posters generated interest. Everyone had fun - and new dad Sean got some rest!
Sacha gave birth to Lucas at 11:52 PM on October 26. Sean, Sacha and Lucas are getting to know one another. Lucas was 8#8oz, big baby boy! Congratulations to the new parents.
Shuai Wei from BYU in Utah will join the lab as a postdoc in early November. Welcome Shuai!
Garrett's application for HHMI Fellowship has moved forward to Rackham for further consideration. Congrats Garrett.
Florence Tama and Osamu Miyashita are moving to the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan. Florence will take a position as the Unit Leader there. Congratulations to Florence and Osamu. (Link)
Jun Feng and her spouse have started the next phase of their academic careers at West Virginia University. Jun will be working with Blake Mertz in the Chemistry Department at WVU.
Congratulations to Tony and Alison on their wedding. Hope you enjoy Napa honeymooning!
Today is the last day of the summer Biophysics REU program. Ben will be leaving us and preparing for his senior year at Kzoo. Ben has done a great job this summer, congratulations Ben.
Postdocs Afra Panahi from Michigan State and Logan Ahlstrom from Arizona will join us this winter. Welcome Afra and Logan!
Oliver Ross was delivered at a whopping 10#16oz. Mom and baby are both healthy and doing well.
Garrett's poster won a travel award at the Vaughan Symposium Poster session. Congratulations Garrett - see you in Tahiti!
Professor Brooks presented a Plenary Award Lecture to the Protein Society as part of his Hans Neurath Award. His lecture was entitled "Exploring pH dependent processes in proteins and their assemblies".
To quote David "the longest game of hide and seek ever" brought David and Margaret their new daughter on July 26 (7#14oz). Congratulations to the new parents!
Eric May departs to begin his independent career at UConn. He will be an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He goes with his own NIH grant to study aspects of Computational Studies of Early Stage Cell Entry Events by Non-enveloped Viruses. We will miss Eric, Jill and the boys, but wish them a fond farewell and expect great things from him!
On Friday the 13th, David Braun passed his pilot exam. Who wants to fly with him?
Elena Laricheva will join the lab as a postdoc in August. Elena did her graduate studies at Bowling Green State University. Welcome Elena!
Former postdoc Michela Taufer, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, University of Delaware, visited and shared her experience in developing md codes on GPUs with the group.
Everyone Welcome Ben Hulbert, summer Biophysics REU from Kalamazoo College. Ben is a physics major and will be working with Garrett on CpHmd.
Welcome aboard Junjie. Junjie will work with Bin on HdeA unfolded states this summer.
Mentored by gradaute student Jessica Gagnon of the Brooks lab, Omar and fellow undergraduate student, Kaustubh Srivastava, investigated the effects of mutations on MLL binding to CPB.
Doug did an excellent job defending his thesis yesterday and now joins the rank of Ph.D.'s who have been associated with the Brooks Group. Congratulations to Doug and good luck in your new position at LBL!
Undergraduate biophysics group member, Michael Robertson, wins NSF pre-doctoral fellowship. Best of luck in graduate school.
Congratulations to Kate, she's adopted a new group mascot - Lillie.
Jowoong Kim, weighing in at 8.9 lbs, was delivered this morning. Both mother and baby are healthy and getting lots of rest!
Congratulations to Shanshan for her selection as a 2012-2013 Barbour Fellow.
First Annual Brooks Group - Feig Group Ski Outing at Mt Brighton. More
"This award recognizes an individual who has made a recent contribution of unusual merit to basic research in the field of protein science" - Protein Society
On December 20, Eric's and Jill's son, Preston Robert May, was born. Mother and son are doing great. Big brother David is a proud big brother.
Welcome Dr. Taehoon Kim!
Thanks to Sean Law for updating the group web site. Nice job!
Congratulations, Garrett!
Tanu and Karunesh are now proud parents of a beautiful baby boy - Kabeer Arora. Mom and son are doing well, dad is wishing for more sleep - suck it up Special K. Congrats!!!!!
Congratulations to Jennifer Knight. She accepted a position at Schrodinger, Inc. Shrodinger is associated with the software Glide (docking), Jaguar (quantum chemistry), DESMOND (MD, from D.E. Shaw) and a host of other software products. (Link)
Harish and Shanshan contribute to novel structure determination of early ribosome assembly - Ribosome Assembly Factors Prevents Premature Translation Initiation by 40S Assembly Intermediates (Link)
Welcome Dr. Alex Dickson and Dr. Sean Law