Simmerling Lab

Our Team

 
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Principal Investigator

Carlos Simmerling

Marsha Laufer Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Associate Director, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Francisco
Fellow, American Chemical Society

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Graduate Students

 
 

Lauren Raguette

Project: Simulations of phosphorylated proteins
Chemistry Program
B.S., Villanova University
M.S., Villanova University

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Yuzhang wang

Project: More accurate protein implicit solvent models
Chemistry Program
B.S., Beihang University

 
 

Darya Stepanenko

Project: Understanding the activation dynamics of viral entry proteins|
Applied Math and Statistics Program
B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Juan Alcantara

Project: Improved methods for drug discovery
Chemistry Program
B.S., Skidmore College

Matthew Kochert

Project: Conformational sampling methods
Chemistry Program
B.S., Loyola University Chicago
M.S. Loyola University Chicago

Undergraduate Students

 
 
 
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Sarah Gunasekera

Project: MD simulations of RNA
Biology Major

 

Sarah Varghese

Project: Improving physics-based simulations of proteins
Biology Major

 

Gary Wu

Project: Interaction energies of amino acid pairs
Biology Major, bioinformatics specialization

 

Stephanie Budhan

Project: Structural analysis of the coronavirus spike membrane fusion protein
Chemistry Major

 

nethmi withanage

Project: TBD
Biochemistry Major