Congratulations to Emad Tajkhorshid, PhD and the Team for Beckman Vision Award! 🎉 TCBGUIUC Biochemistry at Illinois Chemistry at Illinois U of I School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Research & Innovation at UIUC Beckman Foundation
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Professor Ying Diao appears on Springer Nature's 'Science while parenting' podcast to talk research & family with host Vivien Marx.
Read/hear the episode: bit.ly/49vFrCb

Diwakar Shukla led a research study that explored how cell membranes can change the behavior of proteins embedded within them. The study focused on a specific protein called aquaporin, which acts as a microscopic water channel in cells.
Learn more: bit.ly/4cyNf97

Congratulations to Austin T Weigle, recent chemistry PhD from our group for receiving the CCG excellence award for graduate students at the American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans! ACS COMP Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois U of I College of LAS

Professor Diao received the Owens Corning Early Career Award from the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Learn more about Diao and this award: bit.ly/3wWPOBv

Ying Diao coauthored a paper about printable organic polymers that assemble into chiral structures, making it desirable for cheaper, environmentally friendly printable electronics and understanding chirality and spin interactions
Learn more: bit.ly/3IInwxc

Thrilled for our Markov State Modeling (MSM) symposium at the ACS meeting this coming Sun (Mar 17) & Mon in Room R01! Join Greg Bowman, Cecilia Clementi, & me for 28 exciting talks in-person or virtually! Huge thanks to Folding@home for sponsoring! ACS COMP #ACSSpring2024

Check out this beautiful theoretical research from my twitterless colleague Alex Mironenko!

Congratulations to Diwakar Diwakar Shukla and our group for receiving the Dean’s award for excellence in research by College of Engineering! ChBE Illinois Illinois BIOE The Grainger College of Engineering chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/6…

We are ready with the new AI generated #cat poster for our first graduate recruiting weekend of this year. Come and learn about available positions in our group at 10:30 am in the ballroom of the Illini Union! ChBE Illinois Diwakar Shukla

Reminds me of the PhD qualifying exam at MIT MIT ChemE Dept when my entire class was seated on a basketball court! 😀

Congratulations to our newest doctor, Dr. Austin T. Weigle! Thanks to Prof. Gruebele, Mitchell and Chen for serving on the thesis committee.

Our holiday donations for the animal shelter run by Champaign Humane society are ready! CCHS ChBE Illinois

Join us for the thesis defense of Austin Weigle on Dec 14 at 9 am in RAL171 to learn about substrate selectivity of membrane sugar #transporters in #plants ! DM us for the zoom link. @shuklagroup Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois

Professor Ying Diao published a paper investigating how well various modifications to a non-chiral polymer called DPP-T4 can form chiral helical structures in polymer-based semiconductor materials.

Learn more: bit.ly/47AqX3I

Congratulations Dr. Dutta! PhD #9 from Shukla Group!

Please join us for Soumajit Dutta’s Soumajit Dutta thesis defense on “Molecular Mechanism of Ligand Induced Regulation of #Cannabinoids Receptors” Friday, Nov 10 at 9:30 am in CLSL B102. ChBE Illinois Diwakar Shukla U of I College of LAS

In this work, we explore the (un)binding mechanism of “street drugs” such as Fubinaca in #cannabinoid receptors using Markov State Models and TRAM to combine biased and unbiased simulations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to the teams awarded U.S. National Science Foundation DMREF funding. Excited to work on a new materials frontier with Xiao Su, Diwakar Shukla Alex Mironenko ChBE Illinois and Michelle Calabrese UMN CHE new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-inves…

Check out this JCTC special issue on Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation containing our group's paper by Diego Kleiman on Maximum Entropy Vampnets for adaptive sampling. Many thanks to the guest editors for the invitation. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…