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My advisors:

Prof. J. Andrew McCammon

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego.


Prof. Michael K. Gilson

Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology
University of Maryland
Biotechnology Institute
Rockville, MD 20850



Research Interests

- Gated Binding of Ligands to HIV-1 Protease: Brownian Dynamics Simulations in a Coarse-Grained Model

- Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems--from Atomistic to Coarse-Grained Representation. Application to acetylcholinesterase tetramer, drugs binding to HIV-1 protease and macromolecular crowding effects

- Studies of  Free Energy, Entropy, and Induced Fit in Molecular Recognition

- Theory and Modeling of Biomolecular Diffusion and Association Rate Constants

- Computer-Aided Drug Design and Discovery

- Algorithm Development


      
Modification and application for coarse-grained Brownian dynamics simulations in UHBD package

       Second generation Mining-Minima algorithm (M2) -- a powerful free energy calculation method

       HA/MS algorithm -- fast method to compute the configuration integral

       Tork conformational search method

      


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