Nov 30, 2011
Congratulations to Weihong and Debabani for getting their paper on atomistic simulation of NCBD/ACTR accepted by PLoS Computational Biology!

Nov 15, 2011
Congratulations to Debabani and Weihong for making the front cover of 2012 IDP themed issue of Mol. BioSyst.

July 25, 2011
Jian's paper on modeling of a synthetic channel-forming peptide (1130) has just been accepted by BBA - Biomembranes. Congratulations!

July 17, 2011
We welcome Fei Zhou. Fei received his B.S. in Bioscience from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and will be a first-year graduate student in teh Biochemistry Graduate Program at K-State.

June 30, 2011
After some delay, our paper on the Notch NRR activation has been finally accepted, to PLoS ONE. This paper resulted from a collaborative project with Dr. Zolkiewska. It is also a curious example where geniune predictions from simple molecular modeling proved to be correct, based on independent experimental studies published while the paper was still under review.

June 03, 2011
Congratulations to Weihong for passing his PhD Preliminary Exam! Also congratulations to Weihong for getting his first paper accepted by Molecular Biosystems (even though only as a second author)! Keep up the good work!

April 16, 2011
K-State Open House! We made tofu, extracted DNA from strawberry, displayed Manducas, presented the ongoing research programs, and showcased how much fun biochemistry is! Check out more photos here.

April 15, 2011
Jianhan received the HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. The Award will be presented in the ACS Fall National Meeting in Denver.

April 1, 2011
This is no April Fools Joke. Our proposal for a session on intrinsically disordered proteins has been accepted by the organizers of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB). The meeting will take place in Jan 3-7, 2012 in the Big Island of Hawaii. A Call for Papers and Posters can be found at: http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-idp/index.html.

March 4-9, 2011
The group attended the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore. Weihong, Debabani and Jian presented their works on replica exchange sampling, synergistic folding of IDPs and synthetic ion channels, respectively. They all received Travel Awards from the Johnson Cancer Center for attending this exciting conference.

Feb 27, 2011
Our paper on structural adaptability of the linker helix of p21 was just published on Nature Chemical Biology! This is a joint work with the Kriwacki lab in St Jude Children's Research Hospital.