Name: Noah Trebesch

 

Year/Major: Fifth-year Ph.D. student in Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

 

Hometown: Woodbury, Minnesota

 

Lab: Emad Tajkhorshid

 

Your research in 50 words or less: Project 1: I am developing tools to enable molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of multibillion atom cell-scale membranes with experimentally-derived geometries and lipid compositions. Project 2: I am utilizing an array of specialized MD-based techniques to structurally elucidate and thermodynamically characterize the full mechanistic cycles of proteins called membrane transporters.

 

Favorite C-U restaurant: Black Dog Smoke & Ale House