News
Congratulations to Priya Prakash for the ADDF Young Investigators Scholarship
07-31-2018
This award is given by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation to attend the 19th International Conference on Alzheimer's Drug Discovery.
Preprint: "Lemon: a modern C++ tool for the rapid development of structural benchmarking datasets"
07-30-2018
The Lemon software is available as a C++ header library along with example functions at https://github.com/chopralab/lemon
Our Lab presents poster at CSHL Glia meeting on pH dependent Abeta Chemical Tools
07-21-2018
Priya Prakash presented our work on developing chemical tools to study microglial exhaustion and phagocytic specificity.
Publication: "An analysis and evaluation of the WeFold collaborative for protein structure prediction and its pipelines in CASP11 and CASP12"
07-02-2018
This paper analyzes the results of the 2014 and 2016 protein prediction pipelines showing improvements according to the CASP assessment as well as areas that require further adjustments and research.
Gaurav gives talk at Roswell Park Cancer Center
06-21-2018
The title of the talk was "Machine learning based Computational Modeling to Guide Chemical Synthetic selections for Cancer Specific Lethality and immunotherapy."
Undergraduate Summer Scholarships/Fellowships
05-31-2018
Undergraduates Travis Lantz, Elizabeth Thayer, Dawn Tilley, and Gabby Williams all received funding to conduct independent research this summer.
Gaurav Presents at the Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting
05-23-2018
Gaurav presents at the Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting at Iowa University.
Anand and Akanksha Join the Lab for the Summer
05-14-2018
Anand and Akanksha start working in the lab for the summer.
Gaurav Hosts Professor Arup Chakraborty for the Distinguished Lecturer Series
04-27-2018
Gaurav hosted Professor Arup Chakraborty for the Distinguished Lecturer Series. He presented Prof. Chakraborty with the Glass Globe.
Two Posters Presented at 2018 AACR Conference in Chicago
04-14-2018
Travis Lantz and Dr.Joydeb Majumder present two posters at the Immunomodulatory Agents/ interventions and Cancer Chemistry poster sessions.
Dawn and Gabby Present at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Symposium
04-10-2018
Dawn Tilley and Gabby Williams present at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Symposium. Gabby won first prize at the event.
Gaurav and Wei Present 2018 ACS Conference in New Orleans
03-21-2018
Gaurav and Wei presented "Virtual reality environment to visualize and manipulate chemical interactions" with a demo of the game. Gaurav also gave a talk "Live cell surface conjugation methods for imaging and sensing."
The Alpha Version of MINT is Released
03-16-2018
The alpha release version of our protein visualization VR app MINT is now available on Google Play Store!
Lab welcomes Undergraduates JM and Christopher to the lab
01-22-2018
Two new Computer Science undergraduates (Jean-Michael Diei and Christopher Sculley) joined the lab.
Graduate student Armen, Prageeth and Ahad join the lab
01-08-2018
Three Chemistry P.h.D students (Armen Beck, Prageeth Wijewardhane, and Ahad Hossain) joined our lab.
Priya Prakash awarded travel grant and research fellowship
05-31-2016
Third Year graduate student Priya Prakash wins both the Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Travel Grant Award and The Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) Research Grant Award.