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Mobley lab highlights since Spring

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 Force Field Consortium launches; check out a webinar

We’re very excited about the Open Force Field Initiative, a new effort to help build better force fields and improve the infrastructure for developing them. And we’re especially excited that a pharmaceutical industry consortium has come together to help fund and guide this work. Check out our announcement for more details!

If you’d like to know more about our longer-term plans, check out graduate student Caitlin Bannan’s upcoming BioExcel Webinar Oct. [More…]

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Joint Open Force Field Initiative / XtalPi Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Open Force Field Consortium (OpenFF, openforcefield.org) and XtalPi, Inc. (xtalpi.com) seeks a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow to perform cutting-edge research in a unique academic-industrial joint effort.

OpenFF is an academic collaboration (based at UC Irvine / UC Davis / UC San Diego / Univ. Colorado Boulder / Sloan Kettering Institute in New York) that seeks to develop next-generation molecular mechanics force fields and associated parameterization software and data infrastructure. [More…]

News, Positions

Recent lab highlights

I’m behind on updates,but there’s a lot of great news recently! Here are some highlights.

Lab news and events:

First year graduate students Danielle Bergazin, Jessica Maat and Noora Siddiqui recently joined the lab. This is in addition to a rotation by Daniel Seith.

We also have great news on the funding front — huge congratulations to Noora, who was just awarded a prestigious DOE CSGF to support her graduate studies! [More…]

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The Open Forcefield Consortium seeks a software scientist

SMIRKS patterns for selecting substructures

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…]

Mobley lab highlights since Spring

The Open Force Field Consortium launches; check out a webinar

Joint Open Force Field Initiative / XtalPi Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship

Recent lab highlights

The Open Forcefield Consortium seeks a software scientist

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