Apr 30th, 2024
Ugochi successfully defended his Ph.D. Congratulations, Dr. Ugochi Isu!
Apr 16th, 2024
Professor Moradi wins the Fulbright College Outstanding Researcher Award for the 2023/24 academic year.
Apr 15th, 2024
Ugochi Isu was selected as a D.E Shaw Research (DESRES) Doctoral & Postdoctoral Fellow. She attended a symposium in New York City on April 4-5th, sponsored entirely by DESRES.
Feb 19th, 2024
Ugochi Isu gave a talk at the Biophysical Society's annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Feb 19th, 2024
Soheil gave a talk at the Biophysical Society's annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Feb 16th, 2024
Moradi Lab attended Biophysical Society annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Jun 16th, 2024
A paper Stephanie contributed called "Bioorthogonal click labeling of an amber-free HIV-1 provirus for in-virus single molecule imaging" was Published! Cell Chemical Biology Congrats !
Dec 1st, 2023
Ehsaneh Won First Place in MSEN Poster Presentation Contest. Congrats Ehsaneh!
Jun 29th, 2023
Goolsby, Curtis; Losey, James; Fakharzadeh, Ashkan; Xu, Yuchen; Düker, Marie-Christine; Getmansky Sherman, Mila; Matteson, David; Moradi, Mahmoud’s paper called "Addressing the Embeddability Problem in Transition Rate Estimation" was Published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Congrats !
Jun 19th, 2023
M Benton, M Furr, V Govind Kumar, A Polasa, F Gao, C-D Heyes, T-K Suresh Kumar, M Moradi’s paper called "cpSRP43 is both highly flexible and stable: Structural insights using a combined experimental and computational approach" was Published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Congrats !
May 30th, 2023
Shadi, Ugochi, and Ehsaneh’s paper called "The Alternating Access Mechanism in Mammalian Multidrug Resistance Transporters and Their Bacterial Homologs" was published in Membranes. Membranes Congrats Shadi, Ugochi, and Ehsaneh!
May 25th, 2023
Stephanie, Joseph, and Adithya's paper on the rocker-switch mechanism in the major facilitator superfamily was selected as the cover of Membranes! Membranes Congrats all!
May 15th, 2023
Ahmed Shubbar joined the lab. Welcome Ahmed!
May 8th, 2023
Ehsan Khodadadi joined the lab. Welcome Ehsan!
May 3rd, 2023
Ugochi defended her masters in Cellular and Molecular biology. Congrats Ugochi!
May 1st, 2023
Samuel Wamwere Mwatha joined the lab. Welcome Samuel!
April 25th, 2023
Stephanie, Joseph, and Adithya's paper called "Ins and Outs of Rocker Switch Mechanism in Major Facilitator Superfamily of Transporters" was published in Membranes. Membranes Congrats Stephanie, Joseph, and Adithya!
March 3rd, 2023
Ugochi, Shadi, and Ehsaneh's paper called "Cholesterol in Class C GPCRs:Role, Relevance, and Localization" was published in Membranes. Membranes Congrats Ugochi, Shadi, and Ehsaneh!
February 23rd, 2023
Group dinner at Pacific Catch in La Jolla, CA!
February 18th-23rd, 2023
The lab attended the 2023 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
January 16th, 2023
Adithya's paper called "Towards A Purely Physics-based Computational Binding Affininty Estimation" was published in Nature Computational Science. Nature Computational Science Congrats Adithya!
January 13th, 2023
Fauzia Haque joined the lab. Welcome Fauzia!
January 12th, 2023
January 9th, 2023
Dr. Adithya Polasa will be continuing in lab as a post doctoral fellow. Congrats on the new position Adithya!
January 6th , 2023
Soheil Jamali joined the lab. Welcome Soheil!
December 29th , 2022
Vivek and Adithya's paper called "Binding Affinity Estimation from Restrained Umbrella Sampling Simualtions" was published in Nature Computational Sceince. Nature Computational Science Congrats Vivek and Adithya!
December 14th-16th , 2022
Stephanie, Adithya, and Joseph attended the BV-BRC workshap at The Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, IL. uark
December 3rd , 2022
Dylan defended his Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Dylan Ogden!
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Vivek and Adithya's paper called "Binding Affinity Estimation from Restrained Umbrella Sampling Simualtions" was accepted for publication in Nature Computational Sceince. Congrats Vivek and Adithya!
Group dinner at Tula.
Adithya defended his Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Adithya Polasa!
Dr. Moradi gave a seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology on the "Physics of Living Systems".
Shadi passed her candidacy exam. Congrats Shadi!
Rheana Davenport joined the lab. Welcome Rheana!
Dr. Moradi gave a seminar in Applied Mathematics called "Computational Exploration of Protein Conformational Space".
Professor Moradi receives the prestigious NIH outstanding investigator award!
Dr. Moradi gave a seminar in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
Stephanie Sauve joined the lab. Welcome Stephanie!
Adithya's YidC paper was published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences journal. Congrats Adithya!
A graphic from Adithya's recent paper in the Nanoscale Advance Journal is chosen as the back cover picture!
Group dinner at Ramen Nara.
Joseph Williamson joined the lab. Welcome Joseph!
Ehsaneh Khodadadi joined the group. Welcome Ehsaneh!
Dylan passed his candidacy exam. Congrats Dylan!
Moradi Lab received the prestigious Leadership Resource Allocation (LRAC) award.
A UARK Newswire article featured a story on coronavirus research in an interview with Dr. Moradi.
Dr. Moradi gave an invited talk at the department of biomolecular sciences at the University of Mississippi Computational Exploration of Protein Conformational Flexibility from Membrane Insertases to Coronavirus Spike Proteins.
Mortaza gave a talk at American physical society March meeting in Chicago, IL Structural Dynamics of Prefusion Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 and its Variants: Insights from Molecular Dynamics
Shelby Osborn gave a talk at Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Huston, TX. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
James gave a talk at BPS (abstract).
Moradi Lab attended Biophysical Society annual meeting in Sanfrancisco, CA.
Vivek defended his Ph.D. Congrats Dr. Vivek Govind Kumar!
Dr. Moradi presented at ACS.
THV11 interviewd Dr. Moradi about SARS-CoV2 variants of concern in the US.
Dr. Moradi promoted to associate professor. Congrats Dr. Moradi!
Reuters Health interviews Dr. Moradi on recent findings of the lab on coronavirus research.
A Technology Network article features Moradi’s lab coronavirus research.
A LiveScience article features the lab’s coronavirus research.
Biophysical society news room features interview with Dr. Moradi about the last findings of the lab on coronavirus. Why Some Coronavirus Strains are More Infectious Than Others May be Due to Spike Protein Movements..
The members of the Biomolecular simulations lab present their work and learn about the research of other labs at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
Dr. Mortaza Derakhshani Molayousefi joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to the lab!
A UARK Newswire article featured a story on the work done in the biomolecular simulation lab on modeling the hemagglutinin protein of the influenza virus.
An article in IEEE Spectrum on the contributions of AI and other computational techniques to the study of SARS CoV-2 and vaccine development mentions the work done in the Biomolecular Simulations Group.
Shadi Asadian joins the lab as a Cell and Molecular Biology Ph.D. student. Welcome to the lab!
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s website published a news story on the Biomolecular Simulation Lab’s work on the coronavirus glycoproteins. The group has used computing resources on the Anton 2 supercomputer, as part of the COVID-19 HPC Research Consortium, to quickly simulate large all-atom protein systems.
UARK News shared Dr. Moradi on a new episode of the Short Talks from the Hill to discuss the lab’s research on SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2.
Research comparing the spike proteins from CoV-1 and CoV-2 was highlighted in the Texas Advanced Computing Center News.
An E&E News article on the efforts of the COVID-19 HPC Consortium to indentify theraputic drugs highlights the group’s research as evidence that structural difference between CoV-1 and CoV-2 require new theraputic targets.
The COVID-19 HPC Consortium blog highlighted the research being done in the Moradi lab to identify behavioral differences between the SARS CoV-1 and CoV-2.
Dr. Moradi is interviewed with other scientists in U.S. News & World Report for the research being done on the SARS CoV2 spike protein using supercomputers.
A story in the UARK Newswire on SARS CoV-2 simulations done in the Biomolecular Simulation Lab highlights the use of supercomputers made available through the COVID-19 HPC Consortium for research on conformational changes of the spike protein.
Alaa El-Khouly, a Master of Biomedical Engineering student, joins the lab. Welcome, Alaa!
Lab members attend the 2020 Biophysical Society Anual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Dr. Moradi receives the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
Ugochi Isu was approved as a CHBC Ph.D. candidate after passing her cumulative examinations.
Ph.D. student Matthew Brownd joins the lab. Welcome, Matthew!
Vivek Govind Kumar passed his CEMB candidacy exam.
Dr. James Losey joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Newswire write-up on the recent publication in Scientific Reports.
The manuscript from Moradi Lab with an undergraduate first author is accepted for publication at Scientific Reports (preprint). Congrats Thomas!
Moradi Lab receives an NSF grant on “Atomic-level Structural Dynamics in Catalysts”. This is part of a collaborative grant to support an interdiscilinary research project involving six different labs across the US with expertise in data science, computational techniques, materials science, and biophysics.
Moradi Lab (and 5 other labs across the US) are awarded access to Blue Waters supercomputer at University of Illinois by Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) .
Newswire Highlights the research conducted in Moradi Lab and published in ACS Central Science: New Insight Into Cell Membranes Could Improve Drug Testing and Design.
Moradi Lab publishes a research article in ACS Central Science, proposing a novel lipid-dependent mechanism for ABC exporters.
Moradi Lab is awarded access to the specialized supercomputer, Anton 2, housed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. 57 research labs across the US have been awarded access to Anton in this cycle.
Upcoming Event: Hands-on Workshop on Enhanced Sampling and Free-Energy Calculation at Urbana, IL.
Collaborative work on ALS-causing mutations of PFN1 protein was published in Scientific Reports. Moradi Lab collaborated with several Labs at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on this project.
Moradi Lab (and 8 other labs across the US) are awarded access to Blue Waters supercomputer at University of Illinois by Great Lake Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC).
Newswire highlights the collaborative work with the Department of Education at U. Arkansas and Fayetteville High School published at Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. in an article: Professors, High School Teachers Study Use of Modeling Software to Boost Science Education.
Moradi’s collaborative work with the UIUC team makes it to the headline of Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) website: Assembling Life’s Molecular Motor.
Arkansas Newswire Headline: U of A chemist develops new theory for explaining the function of proteins.
Thomas Harkey receives an Honors College Research Grant for the Spring and Fall 2017 terms.
Research conducted in Moradi Lab on the GkPOT transporter and the limitations of molecular dynamics appears in J. Phys. Chem. B.
Dr Moradi coauthors a paper on chemomechanical couplings in V–type ATPases, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Dr Moradi’s paper appears in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: Effective Riemannian Diffusion Model for Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecular Systems.
Moradi Lab is awarded 460,000 MDUs on molecular dynamics specialized supercomputer Anton 2, housed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. 52 research labs across the US have been awarded access to Anton in this cycle.
Mitchell Benton and Reid Shelton present posters at the <a href=https://inbre.uark.edu/> 2016 Conference for Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)</a>.
Hamid Tabari joins the lab as a graduate student in CEMB program.
Moradi Lab (and 10 other labs across the US) are awarded access to Blue Waters supercomputer at University of Illinois by Great Lake Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC).
Mitchell Benton receives an Honors College Research Grant for the Summer and Fall 2016 terms.
Dr Jeevapani Hettige joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
Dr Kalyan Immadisetty joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
Dr Moradi gives an invited talk at the Joint Southeastern/Southwest ACS Regional Meeting, Memphis, TN.
Dr Moradi’s recent paper was published in Nature Communications. In this work, an entire transport process is, for the first time, reconstructed at an atomic level and characterized thermodynamically.