Postdoctoral researchers

Diane Sagnella
Javier Guevara	CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Graduate students
Jianpeng Ma	"Novel computer simulation methods based on a classical Gaussian density approximation" (1996) Subsequently Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Martin Karplus) Currently Assistant Professor Baylor College of Medicine and Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Patricia Amara	"Global minimization on rugged energy landscapes" (1996) Currently Research Scientist Institute for Structural Biology, Grenoble, France
Ioan Andricioaei	"Computer methods for enhanced sampling and global minimization for biomolecular systems" (1999) Currently Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Shuanghong Huo	"Direct computation of long time dynamical processes in peptides and proteins" (1999) Currently Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Clark University
Francesca Massi	"Computational study of the structure, dynamics and activity of an Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide" (2001) Currently Postdoctoral researcher Columbia University Medical School (Arthur Palmer, III)
Troy Whitfield	"Enhanced sampling and global optimization techniques for complex systems" (2001) Currently Postdoctoral researcher IBM Watson Laboratory (Glenn Martyna)
Nicholae-Viorel Buchete	"Theoretical computational coarse-grained models for the study of molecular systems" (2003) Currently Postdoctoral researcher National Institutes of Health (Gerhard Hummer)
Lintao Bu	"Vibrational energy flow in proteins" (2004) Currently Postdoctoral researcher The Scripps Research Institute (Charles Brooks, III)
Undergraduate students
Deborah Pearlman	"Simulation of liquid diffusion using replica molecular dynamics" (1992)
Alissa (Rashkin) Woska *	"Simulation of antifreeze peptides from winter flounder" (1993)
Ji-Kyung Choi *	"Application of instantaneous normal mode analysis to peptides and proteins" (1994)
Sharon Motzkin	"Computation of normal modes of Annexin" (1995)
Ed Landaker *	"Simulation of beta-amyloid peptide" (1996)
	* Honors Thesis
High School research students	"Research Internships in Physics"
Eric Lo	"Protein sequence design" (1995)
Brandy Evans/Daniel Sharfman	"Novel simulated annealing methods applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem" (1996)
Jonathan Chu/Megan Clement	"Computational models of mesoscopic fluid flow" (1997)
Elizabeth Faist	"Deriving statistical potentials for protein modeling" (1999)
Shawn Anthony * #	"Simulating the Alzheimer's Abeta-peptide using minimal protein models" (2000)
	* Siemens-Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition Semifinalist
	# Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist
Arnold Oh	"Exploring the goodness of coarse-grained models of proteins" (2001)
Courtney Sargent	"Statistical potentials for protein aggregation" (2003)
Nikhil Pradhan	"Kinetics of the coil-to-helix transition" (2004)