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Ryan Melvin who did his PhD with me is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama’s School of Medicine. His and his colleagues’ work has been featured as an Intel spotlight. Congrats Ryan!

As of July 1 2021, Dr. Salsbury has been the new graduate director in physics.

Graduate student Dizhou Wu’s first paper has been accepted! It’s a study of mutations in thrombin and their effects on dynamics and conformations. It is part of a theme we are slowly developing on studying disease-associated mutations. The title is “Light chain mutation effects on the dynamics of thrombin.” It has contributions as well from […]

This is the latest version of Dr. Salsbury’s group’s website at WFU; moved from Squarespace to WordPress at WFU. Still under construction, but will hopefully be kept more up-to-date than the previous one. A great deal of old content has been removed in the transfer, but many of the old news articles have been imported, […]

So the website is fairly out-of-date now. A goal is to update it this semester and actually post news as well. So what’s happening in the Salsbury Group this semester: after multiple graduations, the group is the smallest its been in years; just Dr. Salsbury and a second-year grad student Dizhou Wu. Though there are […]

Our webpage has been seriously neglected; especially the News, People and Projects pages. Will update soonish.

A bit belated, but Ryan Melvin defended both his MA in statistics and his PhD in physics this semester. Dr. Melvin is now working for Wells Fargo in Atlanta doing quantitate risk analysis. His final presentation was wonderful; an overview of several projects and many papers, and appropriate for a general physics audience. Here is […]

A couple days ago, the SCB Discussion group, organize by Dr. Salsbury, had the pleasure of hosting David Ornelles from WFSM Department of Microbiology and Immunology. A beautiful biophysical and biochemical study of translation. Specifically, study adenovirus and polyribosome formation on various message RNAs.  From a quantitive point of view, one of the most interesting […]

Protein Science has a special issue on Tools for Protein Science and we have an article on “Visualizing correlated motion with HBDSCAN clustering” a collaboration between Dr. Salsbury’s group, lead by Ryan Melvin, and a statistician, Dr. Berenhaut. We used a newer rigorous clustering method to answer the question of how to divide a protein based […]