The Jernigan Laboratory

Welcome to the Jernigan Laboratory

Our Laboratory focuses on Molecular Computations on Molecular Structures - their simulations and deriving functions.

We are in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology and Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Major Research Interests

Theoretical and computational studies on the structures, sequences and functions of proteins, nucleic acids, and their interactions, including:

Simulations of protein motions
Relationships among structure, sequence and function
Interaction models for proteins and nucleic acids
Computational tools to aid molecular modeling and the design of new molecules and drugs
High performance computing in bioinformatics
Systems biology and integration of massive biological data

Teaching

	BBMB551 Molecular Biophysics (with Amy Andreotti and Yeon-Kyun Shin)
	NIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology