News from The Sosnick Group at The University of Chicago
Paper Published 09/22/2020
Congratulations to Joshua Riback and our collaborators in the Clark lab on having their recent paper, "Properties of protein unfolded states suggest broad selection for expanded conformational ensembles," published in PNAS!
Congratulations 12/03/2019
Congratulations to Kourtney Kroll on winning the David Grier Prize in Innovation in Biophysical Sciences for her project, "Engineering a Light Driven Molecular Motor", in collaboration with the Rock group.
Paper Published 10/30/2019
Congratulations to Zongan Wang and John Jumper on having their recent paper published, "On the Interpretation of Force-Induced Unfolding Studies of Membrane Proteins Using Fast Simulations", published in BIophysical Journal!
Welcome 07/17/2019
Welcome to Kourtney Kroll, who is joining our group as a new graduate student
Undergraduate Honors Thesis 04/25/2019
Darren Kahan presents his undergraduate honors thesis research!
Paper Published 04/19/2019
Congratulations to Joshua Riback, Adam Zmyslowski, and our collaborators in the Clark and Plaxco groups on having their recent paper, "Commonly used FRET fluorophores promote collapse of an otherwise disordered protein," published in PNAS!
Welcome 04/01/2019
Welcome to Hendrik Glauninger and Abigail Schroeter, who are joining our group as new graduate students.
Ph.D. 03/01/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Song for successfully defending his thesis!
Ph.D. 01/28/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Zongan Wang for successfully defending his thesis!
Paper Published 01/15/2019
Congratulations to Josiah Zayner and our collaborators in the Kennis lab on having their recent paper, "Helical Contributions Mediate Light-Activated Conformational Change in the LOV2 Domain of Avena sativa Phototropin 1", published in ACS Omega.
Paper Published 01/02/2019
Congratulations to John Jumper and Nabil Faruk on having their recent paper, "Trajectory-based training enables protein simulations with accurate folding and Boltzmann ensembles in cpu-hours", published in PLoS Computational Biology.
Paper Published 01/02/2019
Congratulations to John Jumper and Nabil Faruk on having their recent paper,"Accurate calculation of side chain packing and free energy with applications to protein molecular dynamics", published in PLoS Computational Biology.
Paper Published 11/14/2018
Congratulations to Zongan Wang, John Jumper and Sheng Wang on having their recent paper published in Biophysical Journal, entitled "A Membrane Burial Potential with H-Bonds and Applications to Curved Membranes and Fast Simulations". Upside has now been applied to membrane proteins!
Welcome 09/24/2018
Welcome to Xiangda Peng, who is joining us as a Postdoctoral Scholar!
Paper Published 08/02/2018
A new paper, "Commonly-used FRET fluorophores promote collapse of an otherwise disordered protein." by Joshua Riback, Adam Zmyslowski, and our collaborators in the Clark and Plaxco groups has been published to biorxiv. Check out the latest contribution to the SAXS-FRET debate!
Welcome 06/18/2018
Welcome to David Hynes, who is joining our group as a Summer Researcher.
Ph.D. 06/13/2018
Congratulations to Joshua Riback on successfully defending his doctoral disseration!
F1000Prime Recommendation 05/17/2018
Congratulations to Joshua Riback, Adam Zmyslowski, John Jumper, and our collaborators in the Clark and Drummond labs on having their Science paper, entitled "Innovative scattering analysis shows hydrophobic disordered proteins are expanded in water," recommended in F1000prime
Young Investigator Award 04/09/2018
Congratulations to Joshua Riback for being named the winner of the 2018 APSUO Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award by the APS Users Organizations.
Paper Published 12/19/2017
Congratulations to John Skinner and our collaborators in the Rosner lab on having their paper, entitled "Conserved salt-bridge competition triggered by phosphorylation regulates the protein interactome", published in PNAS.
Welcome 11/1/2017
Welcome to Ruofen Chen, who is joining our group as an IME graduate student
In the news... 10/13/2017
Our work on disordered proteins in solution has been featured on UChicago News, Notre Dame News, and News Medical. Congratulations to Josh Riback, Adam Zmyslowski, John Jumper, and our collaborators in the Clark and Drummond labs.
Paper Published 10/12/2017
Congratulations to Josh Riback, Adam Zmyslowski, John Jumper, and our collaborators in the Clark lab at the University of Notre Dame and the Drummond lab on having their paper, entitled "Innovative scattering analysis shows hydrophobic disordered proteins are expanded in water," published in Science!
Fellowship 09/15/2017
Congratulations to alumnus Alex French for receiving a BRAIN Initiative NRSA F32 Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship during his postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University!
Paper Published 07/28/2017
Congratulations to John Jumper on publishing his paper "Trajectory-Based Parameterization of a Coarse-Grained Forcefield for High-Throughput Protein Simulation", which is now available on bioRxiv.
Welcome 06/13/2017
Welcome to Kayvon Tabrizi, who is joining our group as a Summer Undergraduate Researcher
Congratulations 06/01/2017
Congratulations to Darren Kahan for being named an IBD scholar to support his research during the Summer
F1000Prime Recommendation 05/18/2017
Congratulations to Joshua Riback and our collaborators in the Drummond lab on having their Cell paper, entitled "Stress-Triggered Phase Separation Is an Adaptive, Evolutionarily Tuned Response", recommended in F1000prime
Welcome 04/17/2017
Welcome to Darren Kahan, who is joining our group as an Undergraduate Researcher
Congratulations 03/28/2017
Congratulations to Aiman Sherani on passing her qualifying exam
Paper Published 03/09/2017
Congratulations to Josh Riback and our collaborators in the Drummond lab on having their paper, entitled "Stress-Triggered Phase Separation Is an Adaptive, Evolutionarily Tuned Response", published in Cell.
F1000Prime Recommendation 02/28/2017
Congratulations to Alex French in collaboration with the Rock group on having their PNAS paper, entitled "An Optogenetic Method for Controlling Full-Length Myosin VI through its Cargo Binding Domain", recommended in F1000Prime.
F1000Prime Recommendation 02/27/2017
Congratulations to Michael Baxa, Wookyung Yu, Joshua Riback, and our collaborators in the Roux and Kent groups on having their PNAS paper, entitled "Perplexing cooperative folding and stability of a low-sequence complexity, polyproline 2 protein lacking a hydrophobic core", recommended in F1000Prime.
Paper Published 02/13/2017
Congratulations to Alex French in collaboration with the Rock group on having his paper, entitled "An Optogenetic Method for Controlling Full-Length Myosin VI through its Cargo Binding Domain", published in PNAS.
Paper Published 02/13/2017
Congratulations to Michael Baxa, Wookyung Yu, Josh Riback, and our collaborators in the Roux and Kent groups on having their paper, entitled "Perplexing cooperative folding and stability of a low-sequence complexity, polyproline 2 protein lacking a hydrophobic core", published in PNAS.
Ph.D. 01/03/2017
Congratulations to Dr. John Jumper on successfully defending his doctoral disseration.