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  The Salsbury group has had plenty of news with papers fellowships, etc, but you wouldn’t know it from our website. Hopefully, we’ll get better and maybe catch up on some old news.

This is actually over a week old, but Ryan Godwin, who also defended his dissertation, won the Outstanding TA award from the physics department! Interestingly, Dr. Salsbury, his advisor, has never had him as a TA, so it was based solely on the other faculty.

Ryan Godwin has successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congrats! His dissertation is entited: “Binding Nemo: Adventures in Molecular Dynamics.” He also won the Outstanding TA award among his honors.

William Thompson, who did research in the Salsbury group for a couple years, wrote his honors thesis based on his work, and co-authored two manuscripts, has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship.  Good work William! He did change fields after graduation from computational biophysics to particle physics, but that shows the generality of a physics […]

First, I have been very bad about posting news. It has been a productive half year in the Salsbury Group. However, I will break the drought of news, by announcing our latest accepted manuscript in Frontiers in Physics, “MutSα’s Multi-Domain Allosteric Response to Three DNA Damage Types Revealed by Machine Learning.”  This article focuses on […]

Since I am on sabbatical, I didn’t actually do my 7 minute overview of my group’s research interests. I did a minimal update — since it’s an overview not much changed, and here it is.  

One of the clustering methods we use is quality threshold clustering. Originally developed for gene clustering, Heyer et al Genome Res 1999 9, 1105-115, we use it as part of analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. We decided to put up our python implementation of it at figshare.

Ryan Melvin just had his second article, “All-Atom MD Reveals Mechanism of Zinc Complexation with Therapeutic F10″ accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.  It’s part of a collaboration with Bill Gmeiner in Cancer Biology focusing on understanding and hopefully one day improving on F10-based therapies. Also part of an interest that […]

Dr. Lu, a former postdoc, has moved on and has taken a position at Xidian University as an assistant professor. Congrats!

A little late, but Ryan Melvin was awarded a T32 training grant in Structural and Computational Biophysics for 2016-17. Congrats!