Sorin Lab News
Spring 2012
Physics undergrad Amethyst Radcliffe has been awarded a JPL Student Independent Research Internship for the Spring 2012 semester!
Graduating Computer Science undergrad Richard Wang has accepted a postition at Thales Avionics!
Fall 2011
Sorin Lab/Mezyk Lab alumnus Edsel Abud entered the joint M.D./Ph.D. program at UC Irvine this fall!
Sorin Lab members Erik Carpio and Carolyn Kusaba presented their poster on collagen simulations at the CSULB Student Reseach Symposium
Spring 2011
SorinLab students Samantha Cao and Carolyn Kusaba both received Women & Philanthropy Scholarships to support their summer
research, marking the first time two Sorin Lab researchers have gotten this award at once!
Summer 2010
Sorin Lab Master's candidate Yi An has moved on to work on his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M University!
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Sorin Lab Alumnus Sarav Patel presented a poster at the regional AAAS meeting in OR on June 15th.
Ali DePaul gave an oral presentation at the recent local ACS meeting and is off to the UCSF Pharmacy program this fall!
About Our Research Group
Members of the Sorin Lab study the structure and dynamics of biological molecules via computer modeling and simulation.
Using cluster computing and the Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project, we can apply a variety of models and
methods to sample large numbers of independent simulations. Indeed, we are now capable of simulating some molecular events
in dynamic equilibrium, making simulation a powerful tool with which to probe topics in molecular biology & drug design
such as RNA folding, protein folding, drug binding, and membrane biophysics.
Recent Publications
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Equilibrium Conformational Dynamics in an RNA Tetraloop from Massively Parallel Molecular DynamicsAllison J. DePaul*, Erik J. Thompson*, Sarav S. Patel*, Kristin Haldeman*, & Eric J. Sorin (2010). Nucleic Acids Research. 38, 4856-4867. |
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Evaluating molecular mechanical potentials for helical peptides and
proteins
Erik J. Thompson*, Allison J. DePaul*, Sarav Patel*, & Eric J. Sorin (2010).
PLoS One, 5, e10056, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010056. |
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Computer Simulations of Protein FoldingVijay Pande, Eric J. Sorin, Christopher D. Snow, & Young Min Rhee (2008). Protein Folding, Misfolding and Aggregation: Classical Themes and Novel Approaches, Royal Society of Chemistry-Biomolecular Sciences. |
