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| | Position: | Graduate | | Email: | bill@mercury.chem.pitt.edu | | Office: | 317 Eberly | | Phone: | (412)624-1184 | | Research: | Study of transport dynamics through the nuclear pore complex (NPC). In particular, simulation of ion flux using continuum PNP.
Simulation of permeation of protein particles and ions through biological ion channels using Brownian Dynamics (BD) and Poisson-Nernst-Planck
(PNP) continuum theory.
Brownian Dynamics code development.
Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics study of ion permeation through Staphylococcus aureus alpha-hemolysin using the Terascale Computing System, or Lemieux Cluster, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
Porting NAMD Molecular Dynamics code for use on Blue Gene-L supercomputing platform at IBM.
Simulation and energetic analysis of Atomic Force Microscopy-induced pulling of single stranded DNA through Staphylococcus aureus alpha-hemolysin using molecular dynamics.
Effects of pKa shifts of internal titratable amino acids on current-voltage relationships in PNP simulations of a wide ion channel. | | Teaching: | 02-1: Chem 0960 - Engineering Chemistry Laboratory 1
02-2: Chem 0970 - Engineering Chemistry Laboratory 2
03-1: Chem 2810 - Biological Chemistry
03-1: Chem 0750 - Honors Chem 1 (Engineering)
03-2: Chem 1420 - Physical Chemistry 2
04-1: Chem 0750 - Honors Chem 1 (Engineering)
04-2: Chem 0760 - Honors Chem 2 (Engineering)
05-1: Chem 0710 - Honors Chem 1 and Laboratory
05-2: Chem 0720 - Honors Chem 2 and Laboratory
06-1: Chem 0710 - Honors Chem 1 and Laboratory
06-1: Phys 0850 - Natural Sciences I
06-2: Chem 0720 - Honors Chem 2 and Laboratory
06-2 Phys 0850 - Natural Sciences II
07-1: Chem 0710 - Honors Chem 1 and Laboratory
07-2: Chem 0720 - Honors Chem 2 and Laboratory
08-1: Chem 0710 - Honors Chem 1 and Laboratory
08-2: Chem 0720 - Honors Chem 2 and Laboratory
| | CV: | B.S. Pitt (2001): Chemistry (bioscience), Ecology and Evolution
Safford Award for Teaching Excellence - (2004)
Finalist - Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award (2004, 2005)
Graduate Excellence Fellowship - (2005)
| | Personal: | Some of my friends call me Liam.
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