Organizers

Lee Woodcock, USF (Department of Chemistry)

  • Dr. Woodcock has extensive experience with the development and application of multi-scale methods and molecular docking methods for biological computations. He is dedicated to making macromolecular modeling more accessible, and to that end developed CHARMMing, a web-based interface for biomolecular computations. Dr. Woodcock is Program Chair for the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry.

David Chatfield, FIU (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

  • In his research, Dr. Chatfield applies molecular dynamics and hybrid QM/MM methods to biological systems. Current topics include the catalytic cycle of chloroperoxidase, the cleavage-and-religation mechanism of topoisomerase, and the small-molecule binding properties of cytoglobin.