Laboratory of Molecular & Thermodynamic Modeling

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Conference Presentations


  1. “Determining the Outward-Facing Structure and Sugar Binding in Lactose Permease of E. coliAIChE Annual Meeting (2007).
  2. “Long-range Lennard-Jones and Electrostatic Interactions in Interfaces: Application and Development of the Isotropic Periodic Sum Method” AIChE Annual Meeting (2007).
  3. “Pure Lipid Membranes and Active Transport of Sugars Through the Cytoplasmic Membrane via Lactose Permease” Biological Membranes: Emerging Challenges at the Interface between Theory, Computer Simulation, and Experiment (2007). Invited
  4. “Structural Changes in Lactose Permease and How Sugar-Type Effects Binding Structure” Biophysical Society (2007).
  5. “Dynamical Motions of Lipids and a Finite Size Effect of Bilayers” AIChE Annual Meeting (2006).
  6. “Disaccharide Binding in Lactose Permease of E. coli: Sugar Structure Influences Binding” AIChE Annual Meeting (2006).
  7. “Lactose Permease-Sugar Interactions: The Anomeric State of a Disaccharide Determines its Binding Structure” Symposium of Protein Society (2006).
  8. “Structure of Lipid Membranes and Improving the Head Group Force Field” eChemInfo, Philadelphia (2005). Invited
  9. “Importance of Including Long-range Interactions in Simulations of Biologically Relevant 2D Surfaces” AIChE Annual Meeting (2005).
  10. “Structure and Dynamics of Lipid Membranes: How can Simulations Aid Experiments?” AIChE Annual Meeting (2005).
  11. “Refining the Structure of Lipid Bilayers with Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations” ACS National Fall Meeting (2005).
  12. “Lipid Bilayers: Structural and Dynamical Properties with an Improved Forcefield Fit to Ab Initio Quantum Mechanics” Biophysical Society (2005).
  13. “An Ab Initio Study on the Torsional Surface of Alkanes and its Effect on Molecular Simulations of Alkanes and DPPC Bilayers” AIChE Annual Meeting (2004).
  14. “A Self-guided Langevin Dynamic Study of ?-Hairpin Folding with Explicit Solvent: Computational Efficiency and Folding Pathways” AIChE Annual Meeting (2004).
  15. “A Quantum Chemical Hybrid Method (HM-IE) for Calculating Interaction Energies Used to Develop Accurate Intermolecular Potentials” AIChE Annual Meeting (2003).
  16. “Phase Behavior of Gas Hydrates and Global Predictions for Methane Hydrate Seafloor Reserves” The University of Melbourne–Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (2003). Invited
  17. Ab Initio Intermolecular Potentials of Absorbents in Nanoporous Carbon Schwartzite Structures” AIChE Annual Meeting (2002).
  18. “Phase Behavior of Clathrate Hydrates: A Model for Single and Multiple Gas Component Hydrates” AIChE Annual Meeting (2002).
  19. “Intermolecular Potentials for Gas-Hydrates Obtained from Ab Initio Quantum Mechanics” ACS National Fall Meeting (2002).
  20. “Predictions of Gas Hydrate Phase Equilibria in Laboratory and Natural Sediment Porous Media” AIChE Annual Meeting (2001).