🎉Congratulations to Jahmal Ennis on his first-author paper, out now! Conventional wisdom says a nanoparticle's gold core is shielded by its ligands. Jahmal's coarse-grained simulations show it isn't - the core drives aggregation in membranes. pubs.acs.org/jpcbfk/artic...

The Core Matters: Aggregation of Neutral Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles in Membranes

Abstract. The aggregation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) influences their optical properties, including localized surface plasmon resonance, through plasmon

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A new preprint is out by our PhD student, Lindsey Riggs! We reveal a hidden interaction network in an IDP that connects a mutation site to distant regions through transient tertiary interactions. Beneath the disorder lies an underlying network! Read here: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

🏆 Results from the CCIB Research Showcase! Jesse Sandberg and Jahmal Ennis tied for 2nd in the Senior PhD division, Nivedha took 1st and Johannah Stevenson 3rd in the MS division, and Lindsey Riggs was a finalist in the Intermediate PhD division. Very proud of this crew 🎉

🏅 Congratulations to the Brannigan Lab PhD students on the Graduate School Student Leadership Award — and to Connor Pitman on Distinguished Alumni! They were nominated as a group for building workshops, shaping C4L training, and supporting the CCIB grad community. 🎉

🏮 Lab and lanterns! We finally got to celebrate Jahmal Ennis and his Chateaubriand Fellowship the right way — glowing sculptures, carnival games, and one very proud lab. Félicitations, Jahmal ! 🎉🇫🇷

We are so proud of Jahmal Ennis for receiving the Chateaubriand Fellowship! 🇫🇷🎉 He will spend 5 months in France working with Dr. Paulo Cesar Telles de Souza on computational modeling of gold nanoparticles. Congratulations, Jahmal! 🥳 Read about it here: ccib.camden.rutgers.edu/ccib-ph-d-st...

CCIB Ph.D. Student Jahmal Ennis Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship - Center for Computational and Integrative Biology

CCIB Ph.D. student Jahmal Ennis has been awarded the prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship, a competitive award that supports research collaborations between the United States and France. Jahmal is als...

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The Brannigan Lab held our annual cocktail contest, and this year’s theme was Animal-Inspired Cocktails! Drinks were inspired by animals ranging from fish and tigers to moles and flies! Congratulations to Jesse, whose fly-inspired passion fruit cocktail took the top prize!🥂🥳🥇

Thinking about simulating gold nanoparticles? Read our latest preprint authored by our PhD student, Jahmal Ennis, here! 😄 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Last week, we celebrated the graduation of two students from the lab, and we couldn’t be prouder! 🎉Congratulations Ryan and Dr. Pitman!!! We know you are both going to accomplish amazing things, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for you both!! 👏🎓😄

A huge congratulations to Dr. Pitman, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Elucidating the role of non-aliphatic residues and hydrophobic modularity in proteins"! 🎉🎓😁

Rutgers–Camden NSF NRT team attended the NRT Conference at Colorado School of Mines! 🌟 Trainees Cleo Falvey, Jahmal Ennis, Lindsey Riggs, Ezry Santiago-McRae, Sarah Johnson, & Dr. Grace Brannigan shared research & connected with NSF peers. #NSF #NRT #STEM #AI #RutgersCamden

In addition to two great talks by our lab at the BPS conference, our PhD students showed off their wonderful posters! Thank you, @ccib-rutgers.bsky.social, for giving us the opportunity to present our research!🧵

At the BPS conference, @gracebrannigan.bsky.social also gave an amazing talk at the Membrane Structure and Function Symposium! 👏😄 Well done!

Our PhD student, Lindsey Riggs, gave her first talk at BPS on "Clustering the ensemble of an IDP by contiguous regions of hydrophobicity reveals distinguishable conformational states" Great job, Lindsey! 🎉😁

Not all mutations change a protein’s predicted structure, but they can still reorganize its sequence! We introduce the blobulator toolkit for exploring hydrophobic organization 🧵:

We recently took a trip to the Poconos to celebrate our lab’s many recent accomplishments, including Regina and Lindsey passing their qualifying exams! Congratulations to you both 🎉

Our PhD student Lindsey Riggs presented a poster about the Blobulator toolkit at the MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference last week! Well done👏🏻! Check out the Blobulator web tool here 😁: blobulator.branniganlab.org

⚠️Do you run coarse-grained membrane simulations with restraints on the absolute positions of any molecules? We found a common setting combination that causes metastable membrane distortions! Read our paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SARS-CoV E protein couples asymmetric leaflet thickness and curvature deformations

The Envelope protein (E protein) of SARS-CoVs 1 and 2 has been implicated in the viral budding process and maintaining the spherical shape of the viru…

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🥁🥁We received some really outstanding entries this year for our Fourth Annual #VMD Contest! See the thread for all of the entries!🥁🥁

Congratulations, Ezry, for publishing a preprint, “Absolute Binding Affinity of a Phospholipid for a Membrane Protein: Alchemical Free Energy Calculations at Atomistic Resolution” at @chemrxiv.org. Give it a read😁! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Absolute Binding Affinity of a Phospholipid for a Membrane Protein: Alchemical Free Energy Calculations at Atomistic Resolution

Specific lipid binding is a likely mechanism by which phospholipids may modulate the conformational ensembles of membrane proteins. An absolute binding affinity is the natural quantitative descriptor ...

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Congratulations to Ryan Lamb for successfully defending his Master's thesis!🥳🎉🎓 Ryan studied properties of hydrophobic clusters on tertiary interactions in peptides and developed an awesome VMD GUI for blobulating proteins! We are so proud of you, and we wish you luck in your future endeavors! 😄

The lab took a field trip to see @reginasalzer.bsky.social’s horses this week! A beautiful day in PA to celebrate Regina’s birthday! 🐴🎉🥳

And more poster presentations about intrinsically disordered proteins and peptides by Lindsey and Ryan!

In addition to wonderful talks by our lab, we also gave poster presentations about lipid membranes by Jahmal, Jesse, and Regina.

Recently, at the Biophysical Society conference in LA, two of our talented PhD students, Ezry and Connor, delivered excellent talks on their research. Congratulations—we are so proud of you both!

Last month, our lab member Jesse Sandberg presented a wonderful flash talk on our lab’s research at the Camden Aquarium during the annual CCIB retreat. Well done, Jesse! 🐟🐡🫧