Principal Investigator
Carlos Simmerling
Marsha Laufer Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Associate Director, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Francisco
Fellow, American Chemical Society
Graduate Students
Lauren Raguette
Project: Simulations of phosphorylated proteins
Chemistry Program
B.S., Villanova University
M.S., Villanova University
Yuzhang wang
Project: More accurate protein implicit solvent models
Chemistry Program
B.S., Beihang University
Darya Stepanenko
Project: Understanding the activation dynamics of viral entry proteins|
Applied Math and Statistics Program
B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Juan Alcantara
Project: Improved methods for drug discovery
Chemistry Program
B.S., Skidmore College
Matthew Kochert
Project: Conformational sampling methods
Chemistry Program
B.S., Loyola University Chicago
M.S. Loyola University Chicago
Undergraduate Students
Sarah Gunasekera
Project: MD simulations of RNA
Biology Major
Sarah Varghese
Project: Improving physics-based simulations of proteins
Biology Major
Gary Wu
Project: Interaction energies of amino acid pairs
Biology Major, bioinformatics specialization
Stephanie Budhan
Project: Structural analysis of the coronavirus spike membrane fusion protein
Chemistry Major
nethmi withanage
Project: TBD
Biochemistry Major