Past Graduate Events
Palomar College - Teaching Opportunities Info Session
In conjunction with the Division of Biological Sciences, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Palomar College will be making a special visit to UCSD on Wednesday, October 31 at 10am in PACH 3500 to discuss teaching opportunities at Palomar College. At this informational session, you will have the opportunity to learn more about Palomar College, the benefits of working at a community college, and current job openings at Palomar College (16+ full-time positions!).
If you are interested in pursuing a teaching career following graduation, we hope you will take advantage of this great opportunity!
D.E. Shaw Research Recruiting Talk
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is excited to announce that we will be hosting a special campus visit for D.E. Shaw Research (DESRES), an independent research laboratory in the field of computational biochemistry located in New York City, on Wednesday, October 17th at 3pm in NSB auditorium. During their visit, they will be providing an overview of their work and discussing current job openings at their lab.
Please see additional information regarding the visit below.
We hope you will take advantage of this great opportunity!
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: Auditorium, Natural Sciences Building
Food will be served!
About the Talk
D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) is a New York–based independent research laboratory that conducts scientific research in the field of computational biochemistry. Our group is currently focusing primarily on long molecular dynamics (MD) simulations involving proteins and other biological macromolecules of potential interest from both a scientific and a pharmaceutical perspective. An integral part of our effort consists of designing and developing custom hardware and software to carry out this research. We are also pursuing drug discovery programs, leveraging the insights enabled by our novel technologies, with an initial focus on drug targets that have proved resistant to traditional drug discovery methods. Our team includes computational chemists and biologists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians, and computer architects and engineers, all working collaboratively within a tightly coupled interdisciplinary research environment under the leadership of our chief scientist David Shaw.
Join us for an overview of our work and a discussion of current openings in the lab.
Liz Decolvenaere
Liz Decolvenaere is involved in the development of improved force fields for biomolecular simulation. She holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Santa Barbara, respectively. As a graduate student, Liz focused on exploring magnetic properties of transition metal alloys, utilizing density functional theory and cluster expansion Hamiltonians to make finite-temperature predictions. She also performed research at Sandia National Laboratories, developing a test set designed to evaluate the performance of ab-initio methods in accurately predicting the properties of transition metal alloys.
Stone Jiang
Stone Jiang is involved in the development of novel computational chemistry methods. He graduated from Caltech with dual B.S. degrees in chemistry and biology. As an undergraduate, he researched antibody-antigen interface design and antibody engineering.