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Trainee completes internship, outreach, lab rotation

Trainee Achievements

Trainee completes internship, outreach, lab rotation

During the summer of 2008, IGERT fellow Greg Smith completed an internship at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, MA, creating a web interface to computational docking software for use by medicinal chemists. He participated in outreach activities at the AIMS (Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science) school encompassing grades 6-12, including a workshop on ethics and advisement for Science fair projects. Greg also participated in a lab rotation in the UNM Division of Biocomputing with Prof. Tudor Oprea and his group, completing a virtual screening project looking for inhibitors of DDAH, a NOS related enzyme. Promising compounds from the screening were passed on to collaborators for bioassay. Currently he is writing a manuscript for molecular dynamics and DFT studies of a bacterial enzyme involved in virulence aspects of Salmonella and Shigella.

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