Year: 2014

Our work on hIAPP(JACS, 135, 16092, (2013)) was highlighted by ACS Select: Protein Dynamics in Simulation and Experiment, which was designed to showcase significant articles recently published in JACS.

Congs on Xuhui for receiving an early promotion to Tenured Associate Professor in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering (effective from Jan 1, 2015)!

Congs on Lu on her paper on photosynthesis which is just published on Nature Communications! Nature Communications, 5:4170, (2014). See Media report here

Shuo’s work on virtual screening of protein inhibitors, a project led by Prof. Nancy Ip’s group, has just been published on PNAS, 111, 9959, (2014)! Congs! See Press release here

Congs on Shuo on his paper on developing a new method to qualify the protein-ligand recognition mechanisms which has just been accepted by PLoS Comp. Bio.! See PLoS. Comp. Bio., 10(8):e1003767, (2014)

Congs on Luming for winning the best poster award in the International Symposium on Frontiers of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry that was hold in Shenzhen!

Congs on Qin for winning the best Physical Chemistry poster award in the 21th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong that was hold in HKU at April 12!

Congs on Daniel on his paper on modeling RNA polymerase II translocation which is just published in PNAS, 111, 7665, (2014)!

Xuhui is co-organizing a workshop on Functional Conformational Changes in Biological Systems that will be hold between April 26 and April 28 at HKUST! Half experimentalists and half theoreticians will speak in this conference.

Xuhui receives the American Chemical Society OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at the ACS National Meeting in Dallas. Congs!