January 7, 2022 Haoran Ni has received the Graduate School's Outstanding Research Assistant Award for AY 2021-22. August 30, 2021 Congratulations to Haoron Ni, whose cover was chosen to be on the front of Journal of Physical Chemistry B! August 26, 2021 A belated congratulations to all of our recent graduates of the 2020-21 school year: Aravind Chandrasekaran, Carlos Floyd, Qin Ni, Mary Pitman, and Hao Wu! December 22, 2020 Carlos Floyd has recieved the Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award for AY 2020-21. July 29, 2020 Aravind Chandrasekaran has recieved the Dean's Fellowship for the 2020 fall semester. March 24th, 2017 Haiqing Zhao has recieved the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. March 10th, 2017 Hao Wu has received the Best Poster Award at UMD's Biophysics and Chemical Physics Student Visit Day. January 23rd, 2017 Haiqing Zhao has received an Education Travel Award from the Biophysical Society for the upcoming Biophysical Society Meeting in New Orleans February 11-15th. December 23rd, 2016 James Komianos has been accepted to UMD's new NSF-funded Computation and Mathematics for Biological Networks(COMBINE) program with a year-long NSF stipend. October 12th, 2016 Our lab's recent article on histone assembly was the cover feature in the JACS October issue. August 8th, 2016 In collaboration with the Wolynes and Dalal labs, we have published articles on the free energy landscape of nucleosomes and chaperones in histone assembly. May 23, 2016 Our lab has created public repositories for recently developed codes MEDYAN and AWSEM-MD. April 23, 2015 Our lab published an article in JACS on the effects of acetylation on the conformational preferences of the H4 histone tail. May 20, 2014 We recently published a a paper in JACS on the origin of internal friction for unfolded proteins. May 15, 2014 Garegin Papoian is now the director of Chemical Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. May 1, 2014 Garegin Papoian is now the Monroe Martin Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. June 12, 2013 Michelle Thomas was selected as a 2013 Hypercube Scolar. May 4, 2012 Davit Potoyan received one of four Excellence in Research Awards from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UMD. April 25, 2012 Michelle Thomas was selected as a 2012 Beckman Scholar. April 16, 2012 Aram Davtyan received Dean's Summer Fellowship for Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UMD. April 12, 2012 Davit Potoyan won the first prize in his session at the Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) 2012. Nov 16, 2011 Our recent paper in JACS on understanding the origin of DNA's rigidity was highlighted by "Chemistry World", which is an RSC publication. Nov 16, 2011 Our recent paper in JACS on understanding the origin of DNA's rigidity was highlighted by "Chemistry World", which is an RSC publication. May 23, 2011 Maria Minakova was accepted and provided with travel support to participate in the EU-US Summer School 2011 on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences. May 22, 2011 Garegin Papoian received the Rice Family Fund Fellowship Award to participate in the program "Biological Frontiers of Polymer and Soft Matter Physics" organized by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. March 22, 2011 Davit Potoyan was named amont the 2011 Student Research Achievement Award Winners of the Biophysical Society National Meeting in Baltimore. Three hundred and nine society student members participated in this competitive event. Congrats! March 18, 2011 Dr. Garegin A. Papoian delivered the Hettleman Prize lecture at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| August 15, 2010 The group has moved to University of Maryland. |
| January 5, 2010 Dr. Garegin A. Papoian received an Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS). |
| June 25, 2009 A Feature Article by Pavel. Zhuravlev, Chris Materese and Garyk Papoian, on energy landscapes view of protein dynamics, appeared on the cover page of July 2 2009 issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. |
| May 5, 2009 Ryan Vary, an incoming graduate student, was awarded a Venable Fellowship for summer research in the Papoian lab. |
| April 3, 2009 Greg Rubinstein, an undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology, received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to carry out summer research in Papoian Lab. |
January 31, 2009 Garegin Papoian received NSF CAREER award, for five years, to develop physico-chemical models of the way actin polymerization processes drive movement of eukaryotic cells. |
| August 5, 2008 A manuscript by C. K. Materese, C. C. Goldmon and G. A. Papoian was accompanied by V. Lubchenko's Commentary and highlighted on the Cover of August 5th issue of PNAS. |
| July 25, 2008 Alexey Savelyev was selected to receive the UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence for the 2008-2009 academic year. |
| July 17, 2008 Christopher Materese was selected as a Chemistry Department GAANN fellow (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) for the 2008/09 academic year. |
| April 28, 2008 Dr. Garegin A. Papoian received Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation. |
| April 10, 2007 The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation named Dr. Garegin A. Papoian among 2007 Beckman Young Investigators Award recepients. More details... |
| April 7, 2006 Sean Walder was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), which is funded by the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation. |
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3, 2006 North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) awarded a two-year seed grant to fund an interdisciplinary group of researchers at UNC, including Papoian laboratory, to study chromatin structure and function with novel approaches. More details... |
| January 2, 2005 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provided support for our efforts in signal transduction modeling through the R. J. Reynolds Excellence Junior Faculty Development Award. |
| July 20, 2004 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation provided support for our efforts in protein biophysics through the New Faculty Award. More details... |