Simmerling Lab Alumni
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Chemistry
Chemistry
Pharmacology
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Guanglei Cui
Xiaolin Cheng
Raphael Geney
Bentley Strockbine
Asim Okur
Kun Song
Daniel Roe
Salma Rafi
Lauren Wickstrom
Fangyu Ding
Arthur Campbell
Christina Bergonzo
Yi Shang
Amber Carr
Carmenza Martinez
Cheng-Tsung Lai
Haoquan Li
Hai Nguyen
James Maier
Kevin Hauser
He Huang
Junjie Zou
Chuan Tian
Koushik Kasavajhala
Kellon Belfon
Kenneth Lam
Lucy Fallon
Yuzhang Wang
Chemistry PhD, 2003
Chemistry PhD, 2004
Chemistry PhD, 2005
Pharm PhD, 2006
Chemistry PhD, 2006
Chemistry PhD, 2007
Chemistry PhD, 2007
Chemistry PhD, 2008
Chemistry PhD, 2009
Biochem PhD, 2010
Chemistry PhD, 2011
Chemistry PhD, 2012
Chemistry PhD, 2013
Chemistry PhD, 2013
Chemistry PhD, 2013
Biochem PhD, 2014
Chemistry PhD, 2014
Chemistry PhD, 2015
Biochem PhD, 2015
Chemistry PhD, 2016
Chemistry PhD, 2018
Chemistry PhD, 2019
Chemistry PhD, 2019
Chemistry PhD, 2020
Chemistry PhD, 2021
Mol/Cell Bio PhD, 2022
Chemistry PhD, 2023
Chemistry PhD, 2024
Simulation methods
Sampling methods
Drug discovery
Protein folding
Sampling methods
Protein-DNA
Sampling methods
Protein-ligand
Sampling / folding
HIV-1 protease
Protein-DNA
Protein-DNA
Protease dynamics
Sampling methods
Protein force fields
Drug binding kinetics
Protein-DNA
Implicit solvent
Protein force fields
Transcription factors
Implicit solvent
Free energy & folding
Protein force fields
Sampling methods
Viral proteins
RNA simulation methods
DNA replication fidelity
Improved implicit water models
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
PhD dissertation
Padma Kandadai
Thomas Canseco
Ruth Li
William Olivo
Hitomi Oda
My Tu
Brock Adams
Mfon Akpan
Kinning Poon
Patrice Leahy
Kerri Goldgraben
Jing Moy
Noel Carrascal
Isaac Pflaum
Eric Absgarten
Lester Leong
Marie (Majkut) Laury
Richard Yao
Dan Talmasov
Aaron Pellman-Isaacs
Dan Martingano
Catherine Kelso
Michael Sperandeo
Henry Lederer
Yinglin Gao
Nora Asamoah
Paraskevas Xenophontos
Esther Shin
Jon McGinn
Ben Sherman
Lukas Klees
Neville Bethel (PhD candidate, UCSF)
Sherry Bermeo (PhD candidate, U Washington)
James Alrassi (SBU) (now resident physician at SUNY Downstate)
Victoria Perrone (Chemistry) (now Quantum Information Scientists, Accenture)
Emily Liu (Chemistry) (now MD in NYC)
Bernard Essuman (SCCC, Computer Science) (now Software Developer, TrueCoders)
Dillon Higginson (Chemistry) (now at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals)
Gabriela Witek (Pharmacology) (now Pharmacology PhD Candidate at University of Pennsylvania)
Rebecca Chang (Psychology)
Jorge Pincay (Biochemistry) (now medical student at SUNY Downstate)
Jackelyne Garcia Cruz (Biology)
Christian Arty (Biology) (now Front End Engineer at LinkedIn)
Juliana Pham (Chemistry)
Isabel Yang (Biology) (now Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine)
Sarah Jacobson (Marine Biology)
Kelley Chiu (Computer Science) (now Medical Student, Stony Brook Univ)
Stephanie Budhan (Chemistry)
Michelle Twan (Biology) (now at Barnard College)
Kezia Kelly (Biochemistry, Adelphi University)
Sharena Brown (Chemistry, Grinnell College)
Jose Luis Guerra (Biochemistry) (now in Chemistry PhD program at U Chicago)
Abbigayle Cuomo (Chemistry) (now Chemistry PhD Student at Yale University)
Stephanie Helbock (Chem. Eng.) (now Product Engineer II, Entegris)
Sarah Varghese (SBU) (currently in Simmerling Lab)
Samer Mahmoud (SBU) (now medical student, SUNY Downstate)
Sarah Gunasekera (SBU) (currently in Simmerling Lab)
Gary Wu (SBU) (currently in Simmerling Lab)
Trisha Majumdar (SBU) (currently in Simmerling Lab)
Nethmi Withanage (SBU) (currently in Simmerling Lab)
Michael Lee
Kristen Regan
Asad Sheth
Dan Noe
Max Bernstein
Jason Barell
Kevin Wang
Zack Goldberg
Jillian Cypser
David Rosenman
Julian Hershowitz
Oleksandr Dagayev
Rachel Orifici
Alex Iyer
Stephanie Clemente
Karthik Kasaraneni
Tom Petracca
Zuha Qazi
Jaime Campos
Christine Shrock
Ruoyi Jiang
Prashant Kota
Brian Miranda
Evan Tilley
Kevin Zhao
Dianna Hu
Hannah Kenagy
Anvit Kalra-Lall
Carlos Pena-Lobel
Daniel Wang
John Gee
Anna Whitney
Mayuri Sridhar
Elissa He
Brandon Gong
Ben Schiffer
Ziheng Wang
Rinni Bhansali
Anna Lou
Annie Chang
Merrick Cai
Shobhita Sundaram
Keene Lu
Kyra Ramonetti
Annika Viswesh
Isabel Hunt (Boulder Valley)
Benjamin Proothi