News Archive

• The Benjamin Hall Interdisciplinary Research Building, one of only 11 Gold-level green buildings in the US, is the new home of the Daggett Lab.
• The Daggett Group's work on prion protein was referenced in the September 2007 issue of Wellcome Trust's Big Pictures Series on Epidemics. [PDF]
• The work on prion protein was again cited in the August 2007 Issue of Chemical and Engineering News.
• The Dynameomics project and potential startup company was featured in the Biomedical Computation Review article "Biocomputation Startups: Where Does Value Lie?" by Katharine Miller. [PDF]
• The Department of Energy awarded the Daggett group 2 million processor hours in 2005 through an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment Award (INCITE), one of 3 awards in the country, for the Molecular Dynameomics project. [DOE press release]
  • Update: The NERSC Annual Report feature, "Proteins in Motion," details the Daggett group's Dynameomics Project.
  • Update: The Department of Energy has awarded the Daggett group an additional 5 million processor hours at NERSC for 2006 and 2007!
• Now you can download Powerpoint slides of our prion conversion trajectory. If you want to know how your experimental data compare with our model or you want specific figures or analyses email us.
• The Dynameomics project was the subject of a recent article in The Scientist, "Unraveling Protein Folding" by Melissa Lee Phillips. [PDF]
• The Daggett Group's work on amyloid disease was the subject of recent editorials in Science by Orla Smith [PDF] and in Nature by Christopher Surridge. [PDF]