DEPT: Biochemistry
YEAR OF GRAD STUDY: 4th year (2015-16)                                                                      

MENTOR(S): Adrian Elcock                        
SOURCE(S) OF SUPPORT:  NIH; CBB; Dept. of Biochemistry (for TA)                                                                            

EDUCATION:
Goshen College  B.A. 2009 Chemistry                                                                                                               
Stockholm University  M.S. 2013  Neurochemistry                                                                                                               

HONORS:
NIH Predoctoral Fellowship in Biotechnology; Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (Biophysical Chemistry), University of Iowa (UI)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
TA Chemistry and Physics of Life (Goshen), TA Biophysical Chemistry (UI), TA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UI)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (prior to entering program):
Recombinant molecular biology; Protein purification; protein-ligand    binding; x-ray crystallography; solid phase peptide synthesis; Metropolis Monte-Carlo simulation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (brief description):
Molecular and Brownian dynamics simulations of biochemical systems

COURSES TAKEN (this graduate program):
Biophysical Chemistry I-VI; Fund of Gene Expression; Fund. of  Dynamic cell Processes;     Critical Thinking and Communication; Intro. to Linux; Biostatistics for Biomedical Research; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Differential equations; Practical Bioinformatics; Intro. to Biocatalysis; Molecular Spectroscopy; Perspectives in Biocatalysis; Principles of Scholarly Integrity

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING APPLIED FOR: N/A

APPLICATION(S) FOR POSTDOCTORAL FUNDING: N/A

PUBLICATIONS:
Shuxiang Li, Casey T. Andrews, Tamara Frembgen-Kesner, Mark S. Miller, Stephen L. Siemonsma, Timothy D. Collingsworth, Isaac T. Rockafellow, Nguyet Anh Ngo, Brady A. Campbell, Reid F. Brown, Chengxuan Guo, Michael Schrodt, Yu-Tsan Liu, and Adrian H. Elcock.
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 441 Two-Residue Peptides in Aqueous Solution: Conformational Preferences and Neighboring Residue Effects with the Amber ff99SB-ildn-NMR Force Field. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2015, 11(3) pp. 1315-1329