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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, self-assembly, and aggregation water and aqueous solutions multiscale modeling and advanced molecular simulation methods

News New web page up for CHE210D: Principles of Modern Molecular Simulation Methods To prospective students: What is protein folding? Click this link to view a movie that we made using atomistic simulations. It's a dramatization, 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.

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