Blugold Supercomputing Cluster News
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Incorporation of computational chemistry research in Physical Chemistry class project leads to peer-reviewed publication
The Blugold Supercomputing Cluster has recently been used to integrate research in the classroom resulting publications by 17 undergraduate authors of Physical Chemistry course. The objective of the course is primarily to teach principles of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics.
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Research conducted on Blugold Supercomputing Cluster leads to conference presentations
In July students attended the 15th annual MERCURY conference.
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Innovative teaching brings real-world research into chemistry classrooms with help of prestigious grant
A prestigious grant and an innovative teaching strategy by a pair of chemistry professors will help increase the number of Blugolds who will graduate with real-world research experience.
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Incorporating Modeling and Simulations to Promote Understanding of Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationships in Proteins
A project-based biophysical chemistry laboratory course, which is offered to the biochemistry and molecular biology majors in their senior year, is described.
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Effect of Stacking Interactions on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Lumiflavin
A Study with Improved Density Functionals and Density Functional Tight-Binding Protocol Bresnahan
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Strictly Conserved Lysine of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase Editing Domain Facilitates Binding and Positioning of Misacylated tRNA
To ensure high fidelity in translation, many aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, enzymes responsible for attach-ing specific amino acids to cognate tRNAs, require proof-reading mechanisms.
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Probing the Global and Local Dynamics of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases using All atom and Coarse-grained Simulations
Coarse-grained simulations have emerged as invaluable tools for studying conformational changes in biomolecules.
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Comparison of the Intrinsic Dynamics of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
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Critical role of substrate conformational change in the proton transfer process catalyzed by 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase
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Evolutionary basis for the coupled-domain motions in Thermus thermophilus leucyl-tRNA synthetase