Anna, Anthony, JC, Karl, Maksym, and Sunny just returned from attending the 60th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in LA. It was another successful meeting, with Anna and Sunny giving GREAT talks and the rest of us presenting posters. And now we face another year-long wait before the next BPS in New Orleans 2017.

JC just presented the talk “Bridging the gap between X-ray crystallography and biological insight with MD simulations” at the “Hot Spring Harbor International Symposium” in Fukuoka Japan. He also visited MD master Yuji Sugita, for whom a 100-million-atom simulation is trivial, at the RIKEN Institute in Tokyo.

JC just got back from the land down under, where he was teaching free energy methods at a workshop in Melbourne.  The local students were many, including even a wallaby!  The workshop was hosted by the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).

Undergraduate physics major and group member Alex Covington wrote an article on our recent outreach efforts using VMD Lite at Pope High School in Marietta, GA. You can find it here.

Curtis and Paul at the speech (underlined, click for a larger view)

Congrats to group members Curtis (upper left) and Paul (lower right) for making it on screen during President Obama’s speech at Georgia Tech on Tuesday March 10.  So this is why our meeting was cancelled???

See the whole video on Youtube.