Today a bunch of summer research students presented the results of their 5 weeks of work (for the first-half of the summer term). Charles (math major, class of 2018) started off this summer working in our group; he has never taken a chemistry class and in just five weeks managed to learn how to run molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER (and updated and corrected some of our tutorials) and wrote some python and cpptraj scripts to aid in our analysis of melittin trajectories. Charles has now had enough of pretending to be a chemist and is going back home for the summer. The group will be building on your work next semester. Thanks Charles!
Charles Clayton and his poster — “Structural Changes of Tryptophan in a Melittin Molecular Dynamics Simulation”
Action shot — Charles handles the crowd around his poster!