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Congratulations to Eve!
Congratulations to Dr. Havva (Eve) Kohestani for the excellent defense of her thesis “Structure and Dynamics of Modified Nucleosome Under Epigenetic Regulation.” Well done Eve!
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Congratulations to Dustin!
Congratulations to Dr. Dustin Woods for defending his thesis “An Exploration Into the Effects of Chromatin Structural Proteins on the Dynamics and Energetic Landscape of Nucleosome Architectures.” Dustin will be moving on from our group and has accepted a position as a Senior Scientist in Computational Chemistry at Evotec.
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Biophysical Society 2022
After a bit of a hiatus, it was great to be back at the Biophysical Society Meeting! Dustin gave an excellent talk in the Multiscale Genome Organization subgroup titled “The Influence of Linker Histones on Chromatin Dynamics and Energetics”! It was also great to reconnect with colleagues we hadn’t seen ...
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NIH Renews our MIRA Funding
We’re very excited to announce that the NIH has renewed our R35 MIRA award for the next five years! The proposal “Probing the Structure/Function/Dynamics Relationship in Biomolecular Complexes with Multiscale Computational Techniques” will continue to fund projects in our group that use computational methods to explore and quantify how dynamic ...
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Congratulations to Joseph!
Congratulations to Joseph for doing an excellent job defending his thesis “Computational Study on the Heme Scavenging Ability of Staphylococcus Aureus IsdH Receptor: Utilizing Molecular Dynamics to Understand an Unknown Mechanism.” Well done Dr. Clayton!
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