News

2024

• Oct: Jingzhi Pu presented at SMART Symposium: AI-Driven Computational Biology and Medicine in Shenzhen, China.
• Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS COMP symposium in honor of the 80th Birthday of Prof. Donald G. Truhlar.

2023

• Sept: Taemoor Hasan and Salma Abdelhamid joined the lab as 1st-year Research Immersion Program (1RIP) undergraduate scholars. Welcome!
• Sept: Tinh Ho joined the lab as a PhD student co-advised by Prof. Partha Basu. Welcome!
• Sept: Dongru Li joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
• Sept: Hysum Qazi received an academic-year UROP grant from the Center for Research and Learning (CRL) at IUPUI. Congratulations!
• Aug: Ryan Snyder's first-author Sparse-GPR-QM/MM paper was published in JCP. Congratulations!
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2023 CHARMM Developers' Meeting at the U of Michigan.
• July: Ryan Snyder successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
• Apr: Hysum Qazi joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
• Apr: Mellisa Hege successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
• Mar: Bryant Kim and Ryan Snyder presented at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting.
• Mar: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS COMP symposium in honor of Prof. Jiali Gao.
• Mar: Bryant Kim successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
• Mar: Mellisa Hege published her first-author SP-DNA paper. Congratulations!

2022

• Nov: Ryan Young successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
• Oct: Ryan Snyder published his first-author GPRwDO-QM/MM paper, which was also selected as a 2022 PCCP HOT Article. Congratulations!
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2022 CHARMM Developers' Meeting at Harvard University.
• June: Bryant Kim accepted a drug-discovery internship position at Roivant Sciences in NYC.
• May: Rebekah Jackson received an ACS Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award. Congratulations!
• Mar: Jingzhi Pu received an IU Trustees' Teaching Award.
• Mar: Rebekah Jackson received an NIH IRTA postbaccalaurate intramural research training award. Congratulations!

2021

• Dec: Jingzhi Pu and Ryan Snyder received an RSFG grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
• Nov: Bryant Kim's first-author dp-QM/MM paper was published. Congratulations!
• Oct: Rebekah Jackson received a second UROP grant for undergraduate research. Congratulations!
• July: Bryant Kim's first-author RP-FM-CV paper was published. Congratulations!
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2021 CHARMM Developers' Meeting hosted by the Michigan State University.
• June: Rebekah Jackson received an UROP grant for summer undergraduate research. Congratulations!
• Apr: Bryant Kim won the "Grand Prize" poster award at the "Think Like A Molecule" Symposium sponsored by ACS Indiana Section. Congratulations!
• Apr: Ryan Snyder gave a talk at the "Think Like A Molecule" Symposium sponsored by ACS Indiana Section.

2020

• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2020 CHARMM Developers' Meeting hosted by Harvard University and Boston University.

2019

• June: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Santa Fe Free Energy Meeting "Free energy calculations: Entering the fourth decade of adventure in Chemistry and Biophysics".

2018

• Sept: Ryan Snyder joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2018 CHARMM Developers' Meeting at U of Chicago.
• June: Jingzhi Pu received an RSFG grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
• June: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2nd Worldwide Chinese Computational Biology and Molecular Simulation Conference at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
• June: Harry Wang from Carmel High School joined the lab for Project STEM research internship. Welcome!
• May: Jingzhi Pu received a Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
• Apr: Pu lab received a computing grant (100K CPU hrs) from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
• Apr: Bryant Kim won a 1st place poster award at the "Think Like A Molecule" Symposium sponsored by ACS Indiana Section. Congratulations!
• Mar: Bryant Kim presented a poster at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.
• Jan: Ryan Snyder joined the lab as a post-baccalaureate student. Welcome!

2017

• Sept: Ryan Young joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2017 CHARMM Developers' Meeting at Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Telluride research conference "Free energy calculations: Three decades of adventure in chemistry and biophysics".
• June: Joanna Zhang from Carmel High School and Yiyang (Ben) Sun from The King’s Academy joined the lab for Project STEM/SEED research internship. Welcome!
• Jan: Mellisa Hege, Cameron Meadows, Darlene Evans, and Seth Keeton joined the lab for undergraduate research.
• Jan: Bryant Kim joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

2016

• Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS COMP symposium and presented at the ACS 252nd National Meeting in Philadelphia (Program).
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2016 CHARMM Developers' Meeting at U of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Mar: Jingzhi Pu presented a chemistry seminar at University of Colorado Denver.

2015

• Sept: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Midwest Computational Biomolecular Modeling Symposium at UIUC (read Editorial Overview).
• Aug: Jingzhi Pu presented at the ACS 250th National Meeting in Boston.
• Aug: Jingzhi Pu's R15 grant is funded by NIH.
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at a Snowmass Biophysics Workshop.
• June: Jingzhi Pu received an RSFG grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
• Apr: Jingzhi Pu received an International Travel Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
• Feb: Jingzhi Pu presented a Mechanical Engineering seminar at IUPUI.

2014

• Oct: Jingzhi Pu gave a talk at the Martin Karplus Celebration Symposium.
• May: Jingzhi Pu received a Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
• Apr: Mulpuri Nagaraju (Raju) joined the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

2013

• Sept: Pedro Ojeda-May, Yan Zhou, and Jingzhi Pu presented at the ACS 246th National Meeting in Indianapolis.
• Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized a TSRC Workshop.
• July: Jingzhi Pu presented at a CHARMM Developers' Meeting in Zurich.
• June: Jacob Lucas from Arsenal Tech High School came back to the lab for his second SEED research internship.
• Jan: Jingzhi Pu gave a physical chemistry seminar at Purdue University.

2012

• Nov: Jingzhi Pu gave a seminar in the Department of Chemistry at Northern Kentucky University.
• June: Jacob Lucas from Arsenal Tech High School joined the lab for a SEED research internship. Welcome!
• May: Jingzhi Pu visited and presented at the Laboratory of Computational Biology at NIH/NHLBI.
• May: The lab was moved! Our new home is the O'Brien computing lab LD320.
• Apr: Cornelius Audu received a “Second Place” poster award at the 2012 Research Day event. read more.
• Jan: Four students (Hongdi Bai, Brett Palencer, Anne Cook, and Kimberly Adams) joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!

2011

• Nov: Jingzhi Pu presented a BioMath seminar at IUPUI.
• Nov: Cornelius Audu was selected to attend the Berkeley Edge Conference.
• Oct: Pyrite - the group high performance computing cluster (HPCC) is in production.
• Sept: Aimee Rinas joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
• Aug: Jingzhi Pu spoke at a TSRC Workshop on Biomolecular Machines.
• July: Jingzhi Pu spoke at a TSRC Workshop on Free Energy Simulations.
• July: Karen Thomson joined the lab as a part-time MS student. Welcome!
• June: Jingzhi Pu organized a mini-symposium on QM/MM at the 42^nd ACS Central Regional Meeting.
• June: Cornelius Audu joined the lab as an McNair Scholar to conduct undergraduate research. Welcome!
• May: Jingzhi Pu was selected as a faculty recipient of "SONY Scholarship". IU Press Release
• Mar: Pedro Ojeda-May from Stuttgart Univ. (Germany) joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
• Jan: Yan Zhou from the Univ. of Minnesota joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!