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<h1> 2022 </h1>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li> Hao Tian was just awarded competitive <a href="http://www.acscomp.org/awards/chemical-computing-group-excellence-award">Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students</a> from the American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry (total of five nationwide)! Congratualtions, Hao! </li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li> Chao Yin was the recipient of Department of Chemistry Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the year! Congratulations to Chao! </li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li> Francesco Trozzi defended his Ph.D. dessiertation on April 27! Congratulations to Dr. Trozzi! </li>
<li> Zilin Song defended his Ph.D. dessiertation on April 19! Congratulations to Dr. Song! </li>
<h1> 2021 </h1>
<h2 align=left> Nov </h2>
<li>Sian Xiao participated in the SMU Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition and won the 2nd place! Well done, Sian!</li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li>Ashley Montgomery received ACS Organic Chemistry Award! Nice achievement at the graduation, Ashley!</li>
<li>Hao Tian was the recipient of Department of Chemistry Graduate Research Achievement Award! Congratulations to Hao!</li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li>Allison Kim received the annual SMU President’s Excellence Award for Scholar Volunteer! WOW, Allison!</li>
<h2 align=left> March </h2>
<li>Both Zilin Song and Hao Tian won Dean’s Award for their poster presentation on SMU Research Days! Well done, Zilin and Hao!</li>
<h1> 2020 </h1>
<h2 align=left> October </h2>
<li>Mayar Mahmoud participated in the SMU Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition and won the People's Choice Award! Well done, Mayar!</li>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li>Sian Xiao and Chao Yin joined the group as graduate students! Our warmest welcome to all of them!!!</li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li> Hao Tian was the recipient of Department of Chemistry Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the year! Congratulations to Hao! </li>
<li>Francesco Trozzi was the recipient of Department Citizenship Award! Congratulations to Francesco!</li>
<li>Daniel Chavez was the recipient of Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Achievement Award! Congratulations to Daniel!</li>
<li>Trevor Heinzmann was the recipient of Department of Chemistry Charles T. Kenner Award! Congratulations to Trevor!</li>
<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li>Trevor Heinzmann received admission offer into graduate school from both UCLA and UCSD! Congratulations to Trevor!</li>
<h1> 2019 </h1>
<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li>Feng defended her Ph.D. dessiertation on November 20! She is the very first female graduate student to obtain a Ph.D. Degree from our group! Congratulations to Dr. Wang!</li>
<h2 align=left> September </h2>
<li>Trevor Heinzmann was selected as one of three Summer Research Fellows for his excellent work as a Summer Research Assistant in 2019! Well done, Mr. Heinzmann!</li>
<li>Both Daniel Chavez and Trevor Heinzmann were selected as Hamilton Scholars for 2019! Congratulations to both Daniel and Trevor!</li>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li>Mayar Mohamed, Hao Tian, and Tingting Zhao joined the group as graduate students! Our warmest welcome to all of them!!!</li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li>Trevor Heinzmann was the recipient for the Undergraduate Research Award, Jesky Scholarship and Lazenby Scholarship from our department! Very impressive, Mr. Heinzmann!</li>
<li>Francesco Trozzi competed in the DFW 3 minutes thesis competition representing SMU! Well done, Mr. Trozzi!</li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li> Hongyu defended his Ph.D. dessiertation on April 18! He is the very first graduate student to obtain a Ph.D. Degree from our group! Congratulations to Dr. Zhou! </li>
<li>Allison Kim joined the group as an undergraduate researcher! Our warmest welcome to Allison!</li>
<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li>Daniel Chavez joined the group as an undergraduate researcher! Our warmest welcome to Daniel!</li>
<h1> 2018 </h1>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li>Zilin Song and Francesco Trozzi joined the group as graduate students! Our warmest welcome to both Zilin and Francesco!!!</li>
<h2 align=left> July </h2>
<li>Our group has been awarded an NIH R15 research grant to explore protein allostery using high-performance computing facility (ManeFrame II) at SMU! We are excited about this great opportunity!</li>
<h2 align=left> June </h2>
<li>Our group has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! <a href="http://blog.smu.edu/dedmancollege/2018/06/12/smu-chemistry-professor-awarded-nsf-career-award/">See more information on Dedman college blog.</a></li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li>Ashley Montgomery joined the group as an undergraduat student. Welcome Ashley!</li>
<li> Hongyu Zhou was just awarded competitive <a href="http://www.acscomp.org/awards/chemical-computing-group-excellence-award">Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students</a> from the American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry (total of five nationwide)! Hongyu is apparently having a heck of a year! </li>
<h2 align=left> March </h2>
<li> Hongyu Zhou won Dean's Award for his poster on <a href="https://www.smu.edu/graduate/CurrentStudents/ResearchDay">SMU Research Day</a>, March 28! Well done, Hongyu! </li>
<li> Hongyu Zhou won a Wiley Best Poster Award at 27th Austin Symposium at Dallas. Congratulations to Hongyu! </li>
<h2 align=left> February </h2>
<li> Check out a short online liveslides presentation featuring our work published in ACS Omega. <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acsomega.7b01483">link </a>
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<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li> Check out a short online liveslides presentation featuring our work published in JCTC. <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00606/suppl_file/ct7b00606_liveslides.mp4">link </a>
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<li> <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.7b01483">Our recent work through collaboration with Professor Sung Joon Kim about anitibiotic Vancomycin is published on ACS Omega!</a> </li>
<h1> 2017 </h1>
<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li> <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00606">A new simulation method to sample reaction pathway is published on the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation!</a> </li>
<h2 align=left> October </h2>
<li> <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.3329/abstract">Our recent work about protein evolution through structural and dynamical analysis is published on Protein Science!</a> </li>
<h2 align=left> September </h2>
<li> Trevor Heinzmann joined the group as an undergraduat student. Welcome Trevor!</li>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li> Yifan Sun joined the group as a graduat student. Welcome Yifan!</li>
<h2 align=left> June </h2>
<li> Congratulations to Zheng, who successfully defended his master thesis in June!</li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li> Congratulations to Hao, who successfully defended his master thesis on May 5, 2017!</li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46626">Our recent work through collaboration with Professor Brian Zoltowski about allostery of circadian protein Vivid is published on Scientific Report!</a> </li>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the symposium "Allosteric interactions and regulation of complex biomolecular systems: From proteins to cell signaling" at the 253rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017</li>
<h2 align=left> March </h2>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the BioMath Monthly Seminar Series of SMU, March 6th, 2017</li>
<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the ACS DFW 4th Young Investigators Symposium, University of Texas Dallas, Dallas, TX, January 28, 2017</li>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, January 20, 2017</li>
<h1> 2016 </h1>
<h2 align=left> December </h2>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, December 2, 2016</li>
<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li> Peng gave an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, November 18, 2016.</li>
<li> Peng gave two oral presentations at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Galveston, TX, November 12, 2016.</li>
<h2 align=left> October </h2>
<li> Peng's application for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants was approved!</li>
<h2 align=left> July </h2>
<li> Peng gave a presentation in College of Chemistry, Peking University, P. R. China, July 26, 2016.</li>
<h2 align=left> June </h2>
<li> <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00188">Our collaborative work with Prof. Sung Joon Kim (Baylor University) about antibiotics is published on Biochemistry!</a> </li>
<h2 align=left> April </h2>
<li> <a href="http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004893">Our second protein allostery simulation paper is published on PLoS Computational Biology now.</a> </li>
<li> Peng gave a presentation titled "Bolstering Antibiotics: How to Fight Superbugs and Conquer Drug Resistance" as part of Inside SMU 2016 on April 16th.</li>
<li> Peng gave a departmental seminar at SMU Math Department on April 7th.</li>
<h2 align=left> March </h2>
<li> Peng visited Wichita State Univeristy in Kanasa to give a seminar in Chemistry Department on March 9th.</li>
<li> <a href="http://ow.ly/ZGcxB">Peng was selected as one of the four recipients of Dean’s Research Council grants to fund our research titled as "Extending the Protein Evolution Paradigm to Combat Antibiotic Drug Resistance"!</a></li>
<li> All of our graduate students, Zheng Dong, Li Shen, Feng Wang, Hao Xu, and Hongyu Zhou presented posters during <a href="https://sites.smu.edu/dedman/austinsymposium/">26th Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas, March 5-7, 2016</a>!</li>
<h2 align=left> February </h2>
<li> Mark Honrales gave an oral presentation about his research of human P-glycoprotein on in SMU Engaged Learning Symposium, February 12! Great job, Mark!</li>
<li> Shilpa Kudva gave an oral presentation about her research of beta-lactamase enzymes on February 10, SMU Research Day! Great job, Shilpa!</li>
<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li> Feng Wang and Zheng Dong joined the group as graduat students. Welcome Feng and Zheng!</li>
<h1> 2015 </h1>
<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li> Peng gave an oral presentation at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Memphis, TN, November 7, 2015.</li>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li> Li Sheng and Hao Xu joined the group as graduat students. Welcome Hao and Li!</li>
<h2 align=left> July </h2>
<li> Professor Qin Huang from China will be visiting our group as a visiting scholar for one year. Welcome Qin!</li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li> Peng was selected to receive Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. He is one of 35 awardees among 134 applicants from 115 universities.</li>
<h2 align=left> February </h2>
<li> Check out Jenna's presentation about Computational Simulation of Unimolecular Micelles as SMU Summer Research Fellow, on October 24, 2014 in fall Engaged Learning Symposium on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfDmHrFvNs">youtube</a>!</li>
<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li> Congratulations to Shilpa! Her research project “The Evolution of Beta-Lactamase Enzymes” has been approved and funded by SMU Engaged Learning program!</li>
<li> Congratulations to Joon for being selected to give a poster AND oral presentation about his work in nitric oxide (NO) autoxidation on the next SMU Research Day, Wednesday, February 25, 2015!</li>
<li> Our collaborative paper about chemiluminescent with Professors Lippert's and Bauer's groups was accepted and currently in press on <a href="http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/sc/c4sc03516j">Chemical Science (Impact factor 8.6)</a>. Among coauthors from our group, Catherine Jiang is a high school student. Joon Yong Moon is an undergraduate student.</li>
<h1> 2014 </h1>
<h2 align=left> December </h2>
<li> Congratulations to Yao, who successfully defended her master thesis on December 4, 2014! </li>
<li> Our first protein allostery paper about a novel simulation approach (rigid residue scan) developed in our group was just accepted by J. Phys. Chem. A: <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp5083455">link</a></li>
<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li> Peng was awarded Sam Taylor Fellowship. </li>
<li> Rob gave an oral presentation at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Fort Worth, TX on November 22: “Using Rigid Body Molecular Dynamics to Explore Key Residues of Protein Allostery”.</li>
<li> Joon presented a poster about his research at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Fort Worth, TX on November 21: “Computational Investigation of Nitric Oxide Autoxidation Intermediates: N2O4 and N2O3”.</li>
<li> Peng gave an oral presentation at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Fort Worth, TX on November 19: “Application of rigid body dynamics in free energy simulation and protein allostery”.</li>
<li> Peng gave a seminar in the Department of Chemistry at the Texas Christian University on November 13: “Computational Enzymology: QM/MM, Free Energy and Allostery”.</li>
<h2 align=left> October </h2>
<li> <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp5072296">Check out our most recent publication through collaboration on J. Phys. Chem. A about QM/MM method development.</a> </li>
<h2 align=left> September </h2>
<li>Jenna Kleiman was selected as SMU Summer Research Assistant Fellowship for her joint research project with Professor David Son about unimolecular micelles simulation using CHARMM. Congratulations! </li>
<li> <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct500342h">Our free energy simulation paper is published on JCTC now</a>. </li>
<h2 align=left> August </h2>
<li> Hongyu Zhou joined the group as a graduat student. Welcome Hongyu! </li>
<h2 align=left> July </h2>
<li> Congratulations to Rob who became a dad on July 22. </li>
<h2 align=left> June </h2>
<li>The group had a great time at Burleson Park close to SMU on June 12. Check it out on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tao-Research-Group/424893014296789">facebook</a>. </li>
<h2 align=left> May </h2>
<li>Congratulations to Mark Honrales, Jenna Kleiman, Shilpa Kudva, Joon Yong Moon, and Phuong Nguyen for being selected as SMU Summer Research Assistantships. Jenna will work on a joint project with Professor David Son. Shilpa will work on a joint project with Professor John Buynak. We also congratulate Camille Biard for being selected as a SMU Hamilton Summer Research Scholar.</li>
<h2 align=left> March </h2>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7WRcY6ptF4?rel=0">Yazen talked about his experience in our group.</a> </li>
<h2 align=left> February </h2>
<li>Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7GXn2EUTos">Camille's SMU Research Day presentation about chemiluminescence on youtube!</a> </li>
<li>Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWyOsHMNEhQ&list=PLy4xmQdx2I6MFCYsD6fh8EsqcqjWgYd2v&index=39">Yazen's Engaged Learning presentation on youtube!</a>
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<h2 align=left> January </h2>
<li>Peng presented a poster at DFW Young Investigator's Symposium on January 25, at the University of Texas at Arlington. Camille, Joonyong, Rob, and Yazen also attended the symposium.
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<li>Yazen has been invited to present his Engaged Learning presentation to the Engaged Learning Advisory Council on January 29 during their meeting.
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<li>Camille will present her work on chemiluminescence at the annual SMU Research Fair, between 10:30am 12:30pm on Feb. 26th in the Hughes-Trigg Forum.
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<li>Yazen will present his work on nitric oxide in the Spring Engaged Learning Symposium (Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:10am in Hughes-Trigg Forum).
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<li>Both Camille's and Mark's applications for a research project in our group were approved and funded by SMU Engaged Learning program! Congratulations, Camille and Mark!
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Tao research group's computational allocation at <a href="http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/">Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)</a> was increased to 300,000 hours of supercomputing times.
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<li>Rob Kalescky joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Rob!
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<li>Shilpa Kudva joined the group. Welcome Shilpa!
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<h1> 2013 </h1>
<h2 align=left> December </h2>
<li>We held our first group lunch on 20th at Cisco Grill!
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<h2 align=left> November </h2>
<li>Shilpa Kudva will join the group next semester. Welcome Shilpa!
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<li>Jong Yong Moon joined the group. Welcome Jong!
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<h2 align=left> October </h2>
<li>Congratulations to Profs. Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel as the <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2013/">2013 Nobel laureates in Chemistry</a>. Their theoretical and methodology development work in computational chemistry and biology has made our research in <a href="http://faculty.smu.edu/ptao/research.html#Computational">computational enzymology</a> possible!
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<li>Phuong Nguyen joined the group. Welcome Phuong!
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<li>Mark Honrales joined the group. Welcome Mark!
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<h2 align=left> September </h2>
<li>Camille Biard and Ashleigh Miller joined the group as joint undergraduate researchers with Prof. Alex Lippert. Welcome Camille and Ashleigh!
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<li>Yazen's application for a research project in our group was approved and funded by SMU Engaged Learning program! Congratulations, Yazen!
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<li>Yazen Abusad joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Yazen!
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<li> Tao research group was rewarded 100,000 hours of supercomputing times from <a href="http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/">Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)</a>.
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Yao just arrived at the campus from China. We welcome her to the group.
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<h2 align=left> August </h2>
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Peng will help to organize the <a href="http://smu.edu/austinsymposium/">25th Austin Symposium</a> on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas, March 1-4, 2014.
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The incoming graduate student, Yao Zhang, will join the group in the Fall semester, 2013. Welcome Yao!
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<li>Robert Kalescky will join the group as a postdoctoral researcher soon. Welcome Rob!
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Peng started his position at SMU in August 2013.
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