GROUP MEMBERS


Current Group Members

Prof. Vijay Pande, PhD (CV)

Professor of Chemistry, Structural Biology, and Computer Science ; Director, Program in Biophysics; Director, Folding@home Distributed Computing

Kyle Beauchamp
Markovian models, protein folding, RNA folding
Graduate student, Biophysics, 2008-

Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff
Markovian Model Visualization Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, Class of 2013

Kevin Dalton
Protein Folding, Chaperonin Biology
Graduate student Pande/Frydman Labs, Biophysics, 2010-

Peter Eastman
High performance molecular dynamics, GPUs
Simbios staff, 2007-

Steven Kearnes
Drug discovery, small molecule similarity
Graduate student, Structural Biology, 2011-

TJ Lane
Analytical Models of Protein Folding, Simulation Tools for Biophysics
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2010- NSF Fellow

Morgan Lawrenz
Markov State Models
Postdoc, Chemistry, 2011-

Gert Kiss
Protein engineering, conformational change
Postdoc, SIMBIOS fellow, Chemistry, 2011-

Robert McGibbon
Protein conformation change and protein-ligand binding
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2011-

Paul Novick
Drug design, Alzheimer's Disease
Graduate student, 2008-

Angelica Parente
Structural dynamics of molecular motors, Inhibitor design
Graduate student Pande/Bryant Labs, NSF Fellow, Biophysics, 2010-

Steven Ryckbosch
Small molecule drug design and synthesis
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2011-

Christian Schwantes
Markov State Models, Protein Folding in the Cell
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2010-

Dr. Diwakar Shukla
Protein Conformational change, Folding
Postdoc, SIMBIOS fellow, 2011-



Jim Snyder
Computational models and protein folding
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2012- NSF GRFP Fellow

Dr. Veena Thomas
MD simulations of protein aggregation diseases, ligand-based drug design for neglected diseases.
Postdoc, NIH NRSA fellowship 2010-

Dan Vanatta
Protein Conformational Change, Free Energy of Small Molecule Binding
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2009-

Jason Wagoner
Water models, free energy calculation
Graduate student, Chemistry, 2006-2012. Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-

Dr. Lee-Ping Wang
Force field development, Markov state models
Postdoc, SIMBIOS fellow, 2011-

Jeff Weber
Statistical field theory, frustrated systems
Graduate student, Chemistry, Hertz Fellow, 2010-



Former group members

Sergio Bacallado
Markovian models & statistics
graduate student, Structural Biology Dept 2007-2012. Currently a Stein Fellow at Stanford University.

Ian Baker
alanine folding
undergradute, Chemistry Dept, 2000-2002. Graduated from Stanford, BA Chemistry

Adam Beberg
Distributed computing
Graduate student, Computer Science, 2005-. Folding@home 1999-.

Greg Bowman
Protein folding and allostery
Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2011. Now a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Relly Brandman
Ribosome \\ Graduate student, BioX Fellow, Molecular Pharmacology, 2002-2009; now at Simprota

Dr. Kim Branson
Drug design
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2009; now at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Jim Calddwell
RNA folding, polarizable ff
Staff Scientist, Chemistry Dept, 2003-2005

Dr. John Chodera
Protein folding, free energy calculation
Postdoctoral fellow, Chemistry Dept, 2006-2008; now a QB3 Fellow at UC Berkeley

Prof. Lillian Chong
protein folding
Postdoc, Chemistry Dept, 2002-2006. Presently a Prof. at University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Sidney Elmer
non biological polymers
Graduate student, Chemistry Dept, 1999-2005

Dr. Mark Engelhardt
RNA folding
Graduate student, Biochemistry Dept, 2003-2006. Currently a postdoc at U. Toronto

Dr. Jeremy England
protein folding in vivo
Graduate student, physics, Hertz Foundation Fellow 2006-2009; now a fellow at Princeton University

Dan Ensign
Protein folding
SGF Fellow 2005-2011.

Mark Friedrichs
GPU coding, AMOEBA
Staff, 2006-

Imran Haque
Small molecule design
Graduate student, Computer Science, 2007-

Prof. Xuhui Huang
RNA folding,sampling algorithms
Postdoc, Simbios Center; 2006-2009

Dr. Guha Jayachandran
protein folding, ligand binding
Graduate student, CS Dept, NDSEG Fellow; 2002-

Dr. Rajdas Jayakumar
Alzheimer's Disease
Staff, 2006-2008.

Dr. Peter Kasson
Lipid vesicle fusion
Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-

Dr. Nick Kelley
lipid membrane simulation
Graduate student, Biophysics Program, 2001-2009

Siraj Khaliq
Folding@home 1.x development; 2.x architecture, development
Master student, 2000-2002. Presently at Google.

Dr. Kai Kohlhoff
Simulation of GPCRs, GPU programming
Postdoctoral fellow, Simbios 2009-

Dr. Stefan Larson
protein design, Genome@home
Graduate student, Biophysics Program, James Clark Fellow, 2000-2004. Presently a consultant at McKinsey.

Dr. Sung-Joo Lee
Coarse grained models for RNA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, 2003-2005. Presently a group leader at LG Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Yu-Shan Lin
Folding simulation, Alzheimer's Disease
Postdoctoral fellow, Chemistry Dept 2009-2012. Now a professor at Tufts University.

Dr. Del Lucent
Protein folding
Graduate student, Biophysics Program, 2005-2009. Presently a professor at Wilkes College.

Dr. Edgar Luttmann
Protein aggregation
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Dept, 2005-2008.

Brad Nakatani
RNA folding
Masters student, Chemistry Dept, 1999-2003

Dr. Sanghyun Park
Free energy methods, collagen folding
Postdoc, Chemistry Dept, 2004- 2007. Presently a fellow at Argonne National Lab/U. Chicago.

Dr. Paula Petrone
Ribosome
Graduate student, Biophysics Dept, 2004-2009; now at Novartis

Prof. Young Min Rhee
thermodyanmics simulation methodology, Folding@home
Graduate student, Chemistry Dept, Stanford Graduate Fellow, 2001-2005. Currently a professor at the Chemistry Dept at POSTECH, Korea.

Alex Robertson
Protein folding
Undergraduate student, Chemistry Dept, 2005-2008. Now a graduate student at MIT Chemistry

Tug Sezen
Education pages
Visiting teacher, summer 2002. Presently teaching at Freedom High School.

Prof. Michael Shirts
thermodyanmics simulation methodology, Folding@home
Graduate student, Chemistry Dept, Stanford Graduate Fellow, Hertz Fellow, 2000-2005. Currently a professor at University of Virginia, Chemical Engineering Department.

Prof. Nina Singhal
Markov State Models
Graduate student, Computer Science Dept, Stanford Graduate Fellow, 2001-2007. Currently a professor at the University of Chicago in the Departments of Computer Science and of Statistics.

Prof. Eric Sorin
RNA folding, protein folding, Folding@home
Graduate student, Chemistry Dept, DOE CGSF Fellow, 2000-2007. Currently a professor of Chemistry at California State University Long Beach.

Dr. Chris Snow
protein folding kinetics, Folding@home
Graduate student, Biophysics Program, HHMI Fellow,2001-2006. Currently a postdoc at Frances Arnold's group at Caltech.

Dr. Martin Stumpe
Chaperonins, solvent effects on protein stability
Postdoctoral fellow, Simbios 2009-

Dr. Vishal Vaidyanathan
Protein folding
Graduate student, Chemistry Dept, 2001-2007. Currently working at Goldman-Sachs.

Dr. Vincent Voelz
Protein folding, MSMs. Postdoctoral fellow , Chemistry Dept, 2007-2011.
Currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Temple University

Dr. Bojan Zagrovic
protein folding, mean structure hypothesis
Graduate student, Biophysics Program, HHMI Fellow, 2000-2004. Presently a Professor/Institute Director in Croatia.

(Last modified September 30, 2012, at 09:42 PM)