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Chia-en Angelina Chang

Chemistry Department

 

 

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Our current research interests lie around molecular recognition and systems-level simulations, including theory and applications. The research highlights are as follows:

 

- Multiscale modeling (coarse-grained and atomistic simulations) of biomolecular systems--Application to study binding pathways of ligands to HIV-1 protease, assembly and motions acetylcholinesterase tetramer, and interactions of protein kinase A (PKA) and A-Kinase Anchoring proteins (AKAPs) complexes. For example, see National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) news

- Studies of large scale protein internal motions and gating effects using Brownian dynamics simulations in a coarse-grained model.

- Stochastic simulations in investigating cell signaling networks, with a focus on cell signaling complexes.

- Studies of  free energy, entropy, and allosteric binding in ligand-receptor recognition.

- Theory and modeling of biomolecular diffusion and association rate constants.

- Computer-aided drug design and discovery.

- Algorithm development.

 

 

Multi-scale simulations

 

Tork conformational search method

 

MM2 free energy calculation

 
 
 
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