Jen Hsin

Home Department: Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Office: 3117 Beckman Institute

Office Telephone: (217) 244-1851

Email: jhsin@ks.uiuc.edu


Education:

BA with honors, Physics, University of Chicago, 2005.

BS, Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2005.

Ph.D candidate, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2005 ~ present.


Here is my CV (pdf).

Current Research Interests:

systems biology, chromatophore, membrane curvature, mechanical proteins...
chromatophore mem_curv z1z2
photosynthetic chromatophore curvature effect of the LH1 dimer elasticity of muscle protein


Publications:

1.    Jen Hsin, James Gumbart, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Elizabeth Villa, Pu Qian, C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus Schulten. Protein-induced membrane curvature investigated through molecular dynamics flexible fitting. Biophysical Journal, in press (2009).

2.    Melih K. Sener*, Jen Hsin*, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Elizabeth Villa, Pu Qian, C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus Schulten. Structural model and excitonic properties of the dimeric RC-LH1-PufX complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Chemical Physics, 357:188-197, 2009.

3.    Jen Hsin, Anton Arkhipov, Ying Yin, John E. Stone, and Klaus Schulten. Using VMD - an introductory tutorial. Current Protocols - Bioinformatics, 5:Unit 5.7, 2008.

4.    Kirby Vandivort, James C. Phillips, Elizabeth Villa, Peter L. Freddolino, James Gumbart, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Danielle E. Chandler, Jen Hsin, Christopher B. Harrison, Laxmikant Kale, and Klaus Schulten. Long time and large size molecular dynamics simulations made feasible through new TeraGrid hardware and software. Proceedings of the 2008 TeraGrid Conference, 2008. (Winner of the Best Science Track Paper at TeraGrid '08!)

5.    Danielle E. Chandler*, Jen Hsin*, Christopher B. Harrison*, James Gumbart*, and Klaus Schulten. Intrinsic Curvature Properties of Photosynthetic Proteins in Chromatophores. Biophysical Journal, 95:2822-2836 (2008).

6.    Eric H. Lee, Jen Hsin, Olga Mayans, and Klaus Schulten. "Secondary and tertiary structure elasticity of titin Z1Z2 and a titin chain model". Biophysical Journal, 93: 1719-1735 (2007).

* Equal contribution authors


Publications before joining TCBG:

1.    F.-J. Lai, Y.-C. Hsin, S.-C. Huang, C.-L. Cheng, S.-C. Hsin, M.-C. Hsieh, and S.-J. Shin. "Down-regulation of adrenal neuronal nitric oxide synthase mRNAs and proteins after deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt treatment in rats." Journal of Steroid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 101: 197-203 (2006).

2.    F.-J. Lai, S.-C. Huang, M.-C. Hsieh, S.-C. Hsin, C.-H. Wu, Y.-C. Hsin, and S.-J. Shin. "Upregulation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase mRNA and protein in adrenal medulla of water-deprived rats." Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, 53: 45-53 (2005).

Talks and Presentations:

Biophysics and Computational Biology Symposium (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Talk: Protein-induced membrane curvature, May 2009. Urbana, IL.

Light Harvesting Processes 2009. Poster: Membrane curvature effects and excitonic properties of the bent Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1-PufX dimer, March 2009. Kloster Banz, Germany.

Workshop on Molecular Modelling on Supercomputers. Talk: Structural systems biology of bacterial photosynthesis, March 2009. Munich,, Germany.

Juelich Winter School 2009, Multiscale Simulation Methods in Molecular Sciences. Poster: Membrane curvature effects and excitonic properties of the bent Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC-LH1-PufX dimer, March 2009. Juelich, Germany.

CECAM Workshop: Membrane Protein Assembly - Theory and Experiment. Poster: Bending of the chromatophore membrane through core complex dimerization, September 2008. Lausanne, Switzerland.

Biophysical Society Meeting 2008. Poster: Rhodobacter sphaeroides LH1-RC-PufX Dimer Curves Chromatophore Membranes, February 2008. Long Beach, CA.

Biophysical Society Meeting 2007. Poster: Secondary and tertiary structure elasticity of titin Z1Z2 and the titin chain, March 2007. Baltimore, MD.

Teaching:

Danielle Chandler, Jen Hsin, and James C. Gumbart. Case Study: Light-Harvesting Complex II, 2008.

Computational Biophysics Workshop. November 2007. Bethesda, MD. (NIH)

Physics 211 - Classical Mechanics. Spring Semester, 2006. (UIUC)

Physics 211 - Classical Mechanics. Fall Semester, 2005. (UIUC)

News Stories:

Dubrow, A. (March 22, 2008). The Computational Microscope. Ranger's parallel computing power enables researchers to model the largest biomolecular apparatus to date. TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center.
      * Dubrow, A. (March 22, 2008). The Computational Microscope. HPCWire.

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