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Overview Our research focuses on several problems in contemporary biophysics and condensed matter theory, using modern tools of statistical mechanics and molecular simulation:  folding and design principles in proteins  peptide structure, association, aggregation, and transport the interplay of structure, kinetics, and thermodynamics in nanoscale systems robust approaches to free energy calculations, multiscale modeling, and molecular design

News To prospective students and layfolk: So what is protein folding? Check out a movie that we made using atomistic simulations. It's a fudge, really, since it's actually an unfolding simulation reversed in time, but it does give some idea of what the folding process might look like.  The movie corresponds to about 4 ns; real proteins, on the other hand, usually take on the order ms to fold. The protein shown is protein G.

Department of Chemical Engineering  |  University of California Santa Barbara