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Perez Group Publishes in Nature Communications
Rapid estimation of protein folding pathways from sequence alone using AlphaFold2
Departmental News
Prof. Sandra Loesgen wins the inaugural Gator Angel Wing Award
Through the generous support of Dr. Nicholas Conti and Amy Fox Conti, this award supports bringing innovative research from the lab to the market. Read more here.
UF Chemistry wins big at the AI Research Awards
Prof. Adrian Roitberg received the AI Research Excellence Award, Prof. Mingjie Liu and Namindu Rangana De Silva won the HiPerGator Early Career Awards, and Profs. Alberto Perez and Mingjie Liu and their labs won HiPerGator Pioneering Team Awards. Click to read the UF News article.
Gainesville families explore hands-on science at Molecular Mania
This year’s event was the 20th anniversary of Molecular Mania and featured 29 hands-on stations and roughly 180 volunteers.
Michelin Science Scholar, Cesar Dominguez, explores sustainable alternatives to plastics
Cesar, a 4th year UF Chemistry and Physics double major, and Prof. Austin Evans studies how to process ultra-high molecular weight polymers through powerful electric fields. Click to read the UF News article.
Perez Lab wins international AI protein design competition
Utilizing HiPerGator, the Perez Lab Gators designed the best protein binder out of 12,000 submissions in the Bits to Binders competition. Click to read the CLAS News article.
Recent Research
FARSIGHT: a new RNA-based light switch speeds disease testing
Asst. Prof. Fan Hong develops a new system, FARSIGHT, to act as a programmable molecular switch that can identify genetic sequences. Click to read the UF News article.
UF researchers identify new cancer-killing compounds
UF researchers, including Prof. Ron Castellano, have advanced a promising strategy to selectively target cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. Click to read the UF Dr. Gator News article.
New technique builds advanced materials out of basic plastics
The Sumerlin group has devised a novel “subtractive” technique to turn everyday plastics into highly porous, high-surface-area materials. Click to read the UF News article.
Loesgen Lab publishes in the flagship journal for the International Society for Microbial Ecology
Manipulation of the Symbiodiniaceae microbiome confers multigenerational impacts on symbioses and reproductive ecology of its Exaiptasia diaphana host.
Fullerene database provides researchers a path toward a more perfect match
The Liu lab provides the most comprehensive dataset of C20 to C60 fullerenes to date. Click to read the CLAS News article.