December 2008: "Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein" was featured in the Research Highlights of 2008 by Nature.
March 2009: Prof. Cheung will give a colloquium talk at the University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston.
March 2009: Prof. Cheung will speak at the Tutorial Session, "Opportunities in Biological Physics" for the 2009 APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh.
March 2009: Prof. Cheung organized a focus session "Simulations and theories for biomolecules under cell-like conditions" at the 2009 APS Marching Meeting, Pittsburg.
April 2009: Cheung group, in collaboration with TLC2 and Quarknet, organized a one-day workshop, "High-performance computing for molecular biology" for high school teachers and students. 10 girls, 10 boys and 2 high school teachers from three high schools in the greater Houston area attended the workshop.
April 2009: Cheung group welcomes Jack Liang who will jointly work with Prof. Neal Waxham at the University of Texas HSC.
April 2009: The paper, "Crowding effects on the structural transitions in a flexible helical homopolymer" recently published in Phys. Rev. Lett. was selected for the Virtual Journals of Biological Physics Research.
April 2009: Prof. Cheung met with minority students at the Texas Southern University and discussed about careers in physics. Prof. Cheung also gave a seminar, "Life in a Crowd".
May 2009: Qian won the third place in the competition of TcSUH student symposium!
May 2009: Our visualization "Multiscale Simulation of Protein GB1" was awarded Honorable Mention at VisVidFest! Congrats to Antonios and Byron!
June 2009: Three high school students, Charlie Cheng, David Jiang, and Vincent Su will work in Dr. Cheung's lab as summer interns.
June 2009: Dr. Cheung gave a "Biophysics Modeling" workshop for high school teachers in the Quarknet Teacher Preparation Workshop at Rice University.
July 2009: Dr. Cheung gave a talk in the "Macromolecular Crowding" workshop at the Telluride Science Reserach Center.
July 2009: Dr. Cheung's research on "Macrmolecular crowding effects on protein folding, structure and interaction" was awarded by the National Science Foundation.
July 2009: Dr. Cheung's group hosted a lab tour for students from middle schools.
July 2009: Megan received UH Undergraduate Research Travel Fellowship to attend Biophysics Workshop at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Congratulations!
July 2009: Cheung group collaborated with TLC2 again to host a workshop of High-performance computing for Molecular Biology" for high school students and teachers from the Quarknet program.
July 2009: Our facebook "Cheunggroup" was launched. Thanks to Syed's great work! Our students are officers who will initiate discussions on their research through facebook social networks.
Sept 2009: Syed Razavi (Chem Eng) and Tyler Quarton (Bioc/Biop) joined Dr. Cheung's group as undergraduate research interns. Welcome!
Nov 2009: Dr. Cheung reached out to 64 girls in the 4th and 5th grade at the DeChaumes Elementary School and demonstrated physics power through every day science experiments. Dr. Cheung built a battery out of potatoes, copper and zinc strips and powered an LED bulb!
Nov 2009: "Biopolymer Dynamics in Cell-like Environment" chaired by Dr. Cheung was considered at the 2010 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting.
