{"id":567,"date":"2023-11-20T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/?p=567"},"modified":"2023-11-20T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:10:27","slug":"tim-gets-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/2023\/11\/20\/tim-gets-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim gets a PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, November 17, Tim Marshall successfully defended his Ph.D Thesis &#8220;Comprehensive Markov State Models for Assessing and Improving the Accuracy of Protein Folding Simulations&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim&#8217;s work has focused on using MSMs as a platform for evaluating force fields and for examining the ability of molecular simulations to quantitatively predict how mutations affect folding stability, toward the prospect of simulation-based virtual screening for protein design.  Tim is still preparing several manuscripts describing this work, so stay tuned for preprints.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Tim!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-568\" style=\"width:542px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement-1536x1158.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_thesis_announcement.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_toast.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_toast.jpg 660w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2023\/11\/tim_toast-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, November 17, Tim Marshall successfully defended his Ph.D Thesis &#8220;Comprehensive Markov State Models for Assessing and Improving the Accuracy of Protein Folding Simulations&#8221;. Tim&#8217;s work has focused on using MSMs as a platform for evaluating force fields and for examining the ability of molecular simulations to quantitatively predict how mutations affect folding stability, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/2023\/11\/20\/tim-gets-a-phd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tim gets a PhD!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}