Wang Research Featured in Journal of Chemical Physics and Honored at the ACS National Meeting
The cover of the Aug. 28th, 2010 issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics, highlights a free-energy diagram calculated with a new enhanced sampling method developed by Professor Feng Wang and his Group (J. Chem. Phys. 113, 084101 {2010]). Their method mimics features of a coarse-grained simulation at the atomic scale. Recent validations performed by the Wang Group indicate that this method can significantly accelerate the dynamics for peptide folding and lipid self-assembly without notably changing the free energy landscape.
Professor Wang received a Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for presenting this work at the 240th ACS National Meeting. This prestigious award is given by the Division of Computers in Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, with financial sponsorship from Hewlett Packard. The division receives applications from across the country and the award is highly competitive, with submissions by many excellent tenure-track faculty members. Winners are selected based on the novelty and potential impact of the applicant’s research program.
Professor Wang is currently working on coupling his novel approach with replica exchange molecular dynamics for enhanced sampling study, which is an exciting advance that could have a significant impact on the rapidly growing field of coarse-grained modeling.
