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.
Current Research Interests:
- systems biology, chromatophore, membrane curvature, mechanical proteins...
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| photosynthetic chromatophore | curvature effect of the LH1 dimer | elasticity of muscle protein |
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Publications:
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1. 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.
2. Danielle E. Chandler, Jen Hsin, Christopher B. Harrison, James Gumbart, and Klaus Schulten. Intrinsic Curvature Properties of Photosynthetic Proteins in Chromatophores. Biophysical Journal, in press (2008).
3. Jen Hsin, Anton Arkhipov, Ying Yin, John E. Stone, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Jordi Cohen, John Eargle, Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Marcos Sotomayor, Emad Tajkhorshid, Elizabeth Villa, Yi Wang, David Wells, Dan Wright, and Klaus Schulten. Using VMD - an introductory tutorial. Current Protocols - Bioinformatics, in press (2008).
4. 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).
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).
Posters and Presentations:
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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:
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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:
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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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