{"id":623,"date":"2024-11-29T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/?p=623"},"modified":"2024-11-29T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:41:57","slug":"highlights-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/2024\/11\/29\/highlights-from-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2024 has been quite a busy year, yet somehow I&#8217;ve managed to avoid posting anything!  Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the many facets of the lab from 2024 (so far):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>January 2024<\/strong>: Chemistry PhD student Starwing Chen joins the Voelz Lab &#8212; welcome Starwing!  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>February 10\u201314, 2024:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biophysics.org\/2024meeting#\/\">Biophysical Society Annual Meeting<\/a> comes to Philadelphia.  Five Voelz Lab members attend, four present!  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March 17\u201320, 2024<\/strong>: Dylan Novack and PI Vincent Voelz give dueling talks (same time, different sessions) at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA.  Dylan&#8217;s talk: &#8220;Can massively parallel free energy calculations improve in silico affinity maturation of de novo designed miniproteins?&#8221; (COMP Drug Design session)  Vince&#8217;s talk: &#8220;Multi-ensemble Markov Model approaches for folding, binding, and design&#8221; (COMP invited symposium on Markov State Modeling of Conformational Dynamics in the Wake of Machine Learning)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 6, 2024<\/strong>: Robert Raddi gets a Ph.D!   His thesis, &#8220;A Bayesian Inference\/Maximum Entropy Approach for Optimization and Validation of Empirical Molecular Models&#8221; is focused on major theoretical advances to our BICePs algorithm and its applications.  Congratulations Rob! <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May 23, 2024<\/strong>: Chemistry grad student Julie Nguyen advances to candidacy with a successful defense of her Original Research Proposal &#8220;Exploring the Mechanism of Molecular Glues in Modulating CRBN&#8217;s Selectivity in CK1\u03b1 Degradation Using Computational Methods&#8221;.  Congrats Julie!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 11, 2024: <\/strong>Dylan<strong> <\/strong>Novack gets a Ph.D.!  Their thesis, &#8220;Molecular Simulation of Mutation Effects on Protein Folding and Function&#8221; focused on Markov model and alchemical free energy approaches made possible though distributed computing on Folding@home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>July 2024<\/strong>: PI Vincent Voelz is promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry at Temple University. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>August 2024<\/strong>: Starwing Chen presents a poster and flash talk at the 12th <a href=\"https:\/\/icapeptoid.org\/\">Peptoid Summit<\/a>: &#8220;Benchmarking peptoid force fields against solution NMR data&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>September 2024<\/strong>: Temple Bioinformatics Ph.D. student Jason Cargill joins the lab &#8212; welcome Jason!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>October 2024<\/strong>: The Annual Voelz Lab Halloween Group Meeting is a unmitigated success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/voelzlab\/files\/2024\/11\/Voelz_lab_Halloween2024-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Halloween from the Voelz Lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 has been quite a busy year, yet somehow I&#8217;ve managed to avoid posting anything! 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