There’s lots of great news since my last update in April.

Lab news and events:

• New graduate student Hannah Baumann recently joined the lab, coming to us from Germany after an internship at Merck Group doing free energy calculations. She’s probably done more such calculations than anyone in the lab!
• Rotation students Martin Amezcua, Oanh Tran, Chris Zhang and Ellie Frank are spending time in the lab this quarter
• Caitlin Bannan received an NSF MolSSI Phase II Fellowship for her work on direct chemical perception with the Open Force Field Initiative
• Nathan Lim was awarded an NSF MolSSI Phase I Fellowship for his work on our BLUES software package.

The Open Forcefield Consortium [http://openforcefield.org] seeks a Lead Software Scientist to coordinate open source software development efforts for an interdisciplinary academic team developing next-generation molecular mechanics forcefields and associated parameterization infrastructure.

This exciting new initiative spans several academic institutions and will be supported by a pharmaceutical industry consortium, with potential for long-term support from the NIH and other agencies. [More…]