News

May 4, 2013 - Alex, Karunesh And Logan Present Work At Protein Folding Conference

Alex, Karunesh and Logan all attended and presented current work on aspects of protein folding at the Midwest Protein Folding Conference at Notre Dame.

April 7, 2013 - Three Graduate Students Give Talks At The Spring ACS Meeting

Evan Arthur, Jessica Gagnon, and Garrett Goh presented their research at this year's ACS meeting in New Orleans. Their talks were well received and well attended.

January 8, 2013 - Matrimonial Bliss To Be Achieved By The Fox!

On January 18th Xiancheng (Fox) will be married! Congratulations Fox. Can we throw rice?

January 8, 2013 - Congratulations Shuai On The Birth Of Your Son!

Shuai and his wife have a new family member as of this morning, a son. Baby William was born 6 lbs 4oz. Congratulations!

January 7, 2013 - Welcome, Logan S. Ahlstrom

Logan Ahlstrom begins his postdoctoral studies in the Brooks lab. He joins us from the University of Arizona.

December 6, 2012 - Congratulations To Former Postdoc Michela Taufer

Michela was named the David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair in Computer and Information Sciences. Michela is an Associate Professor at the University of Deleware. Congratulations Michela! (Link)

December 3, 2012 - Afra Panahi Arrives!

Afra Panahi arrives at the Brooks lab to start her postdoctoral studies. Afra joins us from Michigan State. All welcome Afra.

November 19, 2012 - Shuai Wei Begins Postdoctoral Work In Group - Welcome!

In time for turkey, Shuai arrives to start postdoctoral studies in the group. Welcome Shuai!

November 15, 2012 - Congratulations To David Bostick On The Birth Of His Son Julian Gabriel Bostick

Former postdoc David and his partner Ursala welcomed their son Julian into the world at 6:07 PM. Congratulations!

November 8, 2012 - Shanshan And Sean Present Their Work At The Protein-Protein Interactions Meeting In Lawrence, KS

Shanshan and Sean attend the biannual MPI (Modeling Protein Interactions) workshop. Both posters generated interest. Everyone had fun - and new dad Sean got some rest!

October 27, 2012 - Congratulations Sean And Sacha On The Birth Of Lucas

Sacha gave birth to Lucas at 11:52 PM on October 26. Sean, Sacha and Lucas are getting to know one another. Lucas was 8#8oz, big baby boy! Congratulations to the new parents.

October 24, 2012 - Shuai Wei To Join Lab In November As New Postdoc

Shuai Wei from BYU in Utah will join the lab as a postdoc in early November. Welcome Shuai!

October 2, 2012 - Congratulations Garrett

Garrett's application for HHMI Fellowship has moved forward to Rackham for further consideration. Congrats Garrett.

September 24, 2012 - Former Postdoc Florence Tama Moves To Kobe

Florence Tama and Osamu Miyashita are moving to the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan. Florence will take a position as the Unit Leader there. Congratulations to Florence and Osamu. (Link)

August 23, 2012 - Jun Feng Starts New Phase In Her Career

Jun Feng and her spouse have started the next phase of their academic careers at West Virginia University. Jun will be working with Blake Mertz in the Chemistry Department at WVU.

August 18, 2012 - Tony Ties The Knot!

Congratulations to Tony and Alison on their wedding. Hope you enjoy Napa honeymooning!

August 10, 2012 - Congratulations To Alex And Iza On Their First Baby Boy!

Oliver Ross was delivered at a whopping 10#16oz. Mom and baby are both healthy and doing well.

August 10, 2012 - Biophysics REU Ben Hulbert Last Day

Today is the last day of the summer Biophysics REU program. Ben will be leaving us and preparing for his senior year at Kzoo. Ben has done a great job this summer, congratulations Ben.

August 10, 2012 - New Group Members To Join In Winter

Postdocs Afra Panahi from Michigan State and Logan Ahlstrom from Arizona will join us this winter. Welcome Afra and Logan!

August 9, 2012 - Congratulations To Garrett For Vaughan Symposium Poster Award

Garrett's poster won a travel award at the Vaughan Symposium Poster session. Congratulations Garrett - see you in Tahiti!

August 7, 2012 - Professor Brooks Delivers Hans Neurath Award Plenary Lecture At The 2012 Protein Society In San Diego, CA

Professor Brooks presented a Plenary Award Lecture to the Protein Society as part of his Hans Neurath Award. His lecture was entitled "Exploring pH dependent processes in proteins and their assemblies".

July 27, 2012 - Congratulations David And Margaret On The Birth Of Your Daughter

To quote David "the longest game of hide and seek ever" brought David and Margaret their new daughter on July 26 (7#14oz). Congratulations to the new parents!

July 18, 2012 - Fond Farewell To Eric

Eric May departs to begin his independent career at UConn. He will be an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He goes with his own NIH grant to study aspects of Computational Studies of Early Stage Cell Entry Events by Non-enveloped Viruses. We will miss Eric, Jill and the boys, but wish them a fond farewell and expect great things from him!

July 13, 2012 - Congratulations Fly-guy Dave!

On Friday the 13th, David Braun passed his pilot exam. Who wants to fly with him?

July 2, 2012 - New Postdoc Elena Laricheva To Join Lab Later This Summer.

Elena Laricheva will join the lab as a postdoc in August. Elena did her graduate studies at Bowling Green State University. Welcome Elena!

June 19, 2012 - Welcome Michela Taufer

Former postdoc Michela Taufer, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, University of Delaware, visited and shared her experience in developing md codes on GPUs with the group.

June 7, 2012 - Welcome K-zooer Ben Hulbert

Everyone Welcome Ben Hulbert, summer Biophysics REU from Kalamazoo College. Ben is a physics major and will be working with Garrett on CpHmd.

May 1, 2012 - Welcome Junjie Zou - Summer Inter MCDB Master's Student

Welcome aboard Junjie. Junjie will work with Bin on HdeA unfolded states this summer.

April 18, 2012 - Undergraduate Student, Omar Khan, Presents Work At UROP Spring Symposium 2012

Mentored by gradaute student Jessica Gagnon of the Brooks lab, Omar and fellow undergraduate student, Kaustubh Srivastava, investigated the effects of mutations on MLL binding to CPB.

April 10, 2012 - Congratulations Dr (Doug) Jacobsen For An Excellent Thesis Defense

Doug did an excellent job defending his thesis yesterday and now joins the rank of Ph.D.'s who have been associated with the Brooks Group. Congratulations to Doug and good luck in your new position at LBL!

April 2, 2012 - Congratulations, Michael!

Undergraduate biophysics group member, Michael Robertson, wins NSF pre-doctoral fellowship. Best of luck in graduate school.

March 5, 2012 - The Brooks Group Welcomes A New Mascot!

Congratulations to Kate, she's adopted a new group mascot - Lillie.

February 26, 2012 - Congratulations To Taehoon And His Family On The Arrival Of Their Baby Boy!

Jowoong Kim, weighing in at 8.9 lbs, was delivered this morning. Both mother and baby are healthy and getting lots of rest!

February 21, 2012 - Shanshan Receives Prestigious Barbour Fellowship

Congratulations to Shanshan for her selection as a 2012-2013 Barbour Fellow.

February 11, 2012 - Brooks-Feig Ski Day

First Annual Brooks Group - Feig Group Ski Outing at Mt Brighton. More

February 3, 2012 - Prof. Charles Brooks III Is Awarded The 2012 Hans Neurath Award

"This award recognizes an individual who has made a recent contribution of unusual merit to basic research in the field of protein science" - Protein Society

December 22, 2011 - Congratulations Jill And Eric On The Birth Of Your Son!

On December 20, Eric's and Jill's son, Preston Robert May, was born. Mother and son are doing great. Big brother David is a proud big brother.

December 14, 2011 - Congratulations To Undergrad Thesis Student, Michael Robertson For UPenn Grad School Interview.

November 28, 2011 - New Post-Doc Joins The Lab

Welcome Dr. Taehoon Kim!

November 24, 2011 - New Web Site Premiers

Thanks to Sean Law for updating the group web site. Nice job!

Nov 14, 2011 - Garrett Goh Receives ACS Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award

Congratulations, Garrett!

October 30, 2011 - Kabeer Arora Joins The Arora Family!

Tanu and Karunesh are now proud parents of a beautiful baby boy - Kabeer Arora. Mom and son are doing well, dad is wishing for more sleep - suck it up Special K. Congrats!!!!!

October 10, 2011 - Jennifer Knight Secures Position At Schrodinger, Inc.

Congratulations to Jennifer Knight. She accepted a position at Schrodinger, Inc. Shrodinger is associated with the software Glide (docking), Jaguar (quantum chemistry), DESMOND (MD, from D.E. Shaw) and a host of other software products. (Link)

September 9, 2011 - Brooks Group Efforts Published In Science

Harish and Shanshan contribute to novel structure determination of early ribosome assembly - Ribosome Assembly Factors Prevents Premature Translation Initiation by 40S Assembly Intermediates (Link)

Sept 6, 2011 - New Post-Docs Join the Lab

Welcome Dr. Alex Dickson and Dr. Sean Law