News

2024

Oct: Jingzhi Pu presented at the SMART Symposium: AI-Driven Computational Biology and Medicine in Shenzhen China.
Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS COMP Symposium in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Prof. Donald G. Truhlar at the Fall 2024 National ACS Meeting in Denver.
Jan: Jingzhi Pu is recognized by IU Indy’s student-athletes as one of their “Favorite Professors”.

2023

Sept: Taemoor Hasan and Salma Abdelhamid joined the lab as “1st-Year Research Immersion Program” (1RIP) undergraduate scholars. Welcome!
Sept: Tinh Ho joined the lab as a Ph.D. student, co-advised by Prof. Partha Basu. Welcome!
Sept: Dongru Li joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
Sept: Hysum Qazi received an Academic-Year UROP Grant from the Center for Research and Learning (CRL) at IUPUI. Congratulations!
Aug: Ryan Snyder’s first-author Sparse-GPR-QM/MM paper was published in JCP. Congratulations!
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2023 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting at the U of Michigan.
July: Ryan Snyder successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Apr: Hysum Qazi joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
Apr: Mellisa Hege successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Mar: Bryant Kim and Ryan Snyder presented at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting.
Mar: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS Comp Symposium in Honor of Prof. Jiali Gao at the Spring 2023 ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis.
Mar: Bryant Kim successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Mar: Mellisa Hege published her first-author SP-DNA paper. Congratulations!

2022

Nov: Ryan Young successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Oct: Ryan Snyder published his first-author GPRwDO-QM/MM paper, which was also selected as a 2022 PCCP Hot Article. Congratulations!
July Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2022 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting at Harvard University.
June Bryant Kim accepted a drug-discovery internship position at Roivant Sciences in NYC.
May: Rebekah Jackson received an ACS Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award. Congratulations!
Mar: Jingzhi Pu received an IU Trustees Teaching Award.
Mar: Rebekah Jackson received an NIH IRTA postbaccalaurate intramural research training award. Congratulations!

2021

Dec: Jingzhi Pu and Ryan Snyder received an RSFG grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
Nov: Bryant Kim’s first-author dp-QM/MM paper was published. Congratulations!
Oct: Rebekah Jackson received a second UROP grant for undergraduate research. Congratulations!
July: Bryant Kim’s first-author RP-FM-CV paper was published. congratulations
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2021 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting hosted by the Michigan State University.
June: Rebekah Jackson received an UROP grant for summer undergraduate research. Congratulations
Apr: Bryant Kimu won the “grand prize” poster award at the “Think Like a Molecule” Symposium sponsored by the ACS Indiana section. Congratulations!
Apr: Ryan Snyder gave a talk at the “Think Like a Molecule” Symposium sponsored by the ACS Indiana section.

2020

July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2020 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting hosted by Harvard University and Boston University.

2019

June: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Santa Fe free energy conference titled “Free Energy Calculations Entering the Fourth Decade of Adventure in Chemistry and Biophysics”.

2018

Sept: Ryan Snyder joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2018 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting at U of Chicago.
June: Jingzhi Pu received an RSFG grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
June: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2nd Worldwide Chinese Computational Biology and Molecular Simulation Conference at Sun Yat-Sen University, GuangZhou.
June: Harry Wang from Carmel High School joined the lab for Project STEM research internship. Welcome!
May: Jingzhi Pu received a Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
Apr: Pu lab received a computing grant of 100k CPU hrs from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
Apr: Bryant Kim won a 1st Place Poster Award at the Think Like a Molecule Symposium sponsored by the ACS Indiana section. Congratulations!
Mar: Bryant Kim presented a poster at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.
Jan: Ryan Snyder joined the lab as a post-baccalaureate student. Welcome!

2017

Sept: Ryan Young joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2017 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting at Harvard University.
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Telluride Research Conference “Free Energy Calculations: Three Decades of Adventure in Chemistry and Biophysics”.
June: Joanna Zhang from Carmel High School and Yiyang (Ben) Sun from the King’s Academy joined the lab for Project STEM/SEED research internship. Welcome!
Jan: Mellisa Hege, Cameron Meadows, Darlene Evans, and Seth Keeton joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
Jan: Bryant Kimu joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

2016

Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized an ACS COMP Symposium titled “QM/MM Simulation of Chemical and Biochemical Reaction Pathways: Recent Developments and Applications” and presented at the 252nd ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia.
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at the 2016 CHARMM Developers’ Meeting at U of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Mar: Jingzhi Pu presented a Chemistry seminar at University of Colorado Denver .

2015

Sept: Jingzhi Pu presented at the Midwest Computational Biomolecular Modeling Symposium at UIUC (read Editorial Overview).
Aug: Jingzhi Pu presented at the ACS 250th National Meeting in Boston.
Aug: Jingzhi Pu’s R15 grant is funded by NIH.
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at a Snowmass Biophysics Workshop.
June: Jingzhi Pu received an RSFG grant from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI.
Apr: Jingzhi Pu received an International Travel Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
Feb: Jingzhi Pu presented a Mechanical Engineering seminar at IUPUI.

2014

Oct: Jingzhi Pu gave a talk at the Martin Karplus Celebration Symposium.
May: Jingzhi Pu received a Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.
Apr: Mulpuri Nagaraju (Raju) joined the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!

2013

Sept: Pedro Ojeda-May, Yan Zhou, and Jingzhi Pu presented at the ACS 246th National Meeting in Indianapolis.
Aug: Jingzhi Pu co-organized a TSRC Workshop.
July: Jingzhi Pu presented at a CHARMM Developers’ Meeting in Zurich.
June: Jacob Lucas from Arsenal Tech High School came back to the lab for his second SEED research internship. Welcome!
Jan: Jingzhi Pu gave a physical chemistry seminar at Purdue University.

2012

Nov: Jingzhi Pu gave a seminar in the Department of Chemistry at Northern Kentucky University.
June: Jacob Lucas from Arsenal Tech High School joined the lab for a SEED research internship. Welcome!
May: Jingzhi Pu visited and presented at the Laboratory of Computational Biology at NIH/NHLBI.
May: The lab was moved! Our new home is the O’Brien computing lab LD320.
Apr: Cornelius Audu received a “Second Place” poster award at the 2012 Research Day event. read more. Congratulations!
Jan: Four students (Hongdi Bai, Brett Palencer, Anne Cook, and Kimberly Adams) joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!

2011

Nov: Jingzhi Pu presented a BioMath seminar at IUPUI.
Nov: Cornelius Audu was selected to attend the Berkeley Edge Conference. Congratulations!
Oct: Pyrite - the group high performance computing cluster (HPCC) is in production.
Sept: Aimee Rinas joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
Aug: Jingzhi Pu spoke at a TSRC Workshop on Biomolecular Machines.
July: Jingzhi Pu spoke at a TSRC Workshop on Free Energy Simulations.
July: Karen Thomson joined the lab as a part-time MS student. Welcome!
June: Jingzhi Pu organized a mini-symposium on QM/MM at the 42^nd ACS Central Regional Meeting.
June: Cornelius Audu joined the lab as an McNair Scholar to conduct undergraduate research. Welcome!
May: Jingzhi Pu was selected as a faculty recipient of “SONY Scholarship”. IU Press Release
Mar: Pedro Ojeda-May from Stuttgart Univ. (Germany) joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
Jan: Yan Zhou from the Univ. of Minnesota joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!