2018
- Demi attended the NANOinBIO 2018 Conference in Le Gosier – French Caribbean (Guadaloupe) from 21 May until 27 May. She presented a poster on her latest work on solid lipid nanoparticles (which can be seen on our Posters page), and also enjoyed the nice weather and environment (as can be seen below).
- Mat, Paul, May and Chris attended the 3rd CCPBioSim/CCP5 Conference on Multiscale Modelling of Condensed Phase and Biological Systems in Manchester, UK from 21 May until 23 May. Paul & Mat presented posters on their latest work (which can be found on our Posters page) and Chris gave a talk on the effect of oxidisation on the structural properties of model red blood cell membranes.
- Chris’ talk at the Colonel Fawcett pub in Camden as part of the Pint of Science event was a great evening on many fronts. His parents surprised him by flying over from the USA to be in attendance for his talk, and they joined another 30+ people who were in attendance for Chris’ talk on the “Self-Assembly of Soft Matter.” May and Gerard came along as well, and everyone had a good evening which combined beer, science and good chat.
- On 16 May, Chris will be giving a talk entitled “Self-Assembly of Soft Matter” as part of the Pint of Science festival in London. Read more here. For tickets, go to this link.
- We would like to thank Dr. Jemma Trick for her great work over the course of the past two years as part of the Lorenz Lab. On 28 March, Jemma started as the Centre Manager for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Non-Equilibrium Systems (CANES) at King’s College London.
2017
- Paul gave a mid-term oral presentation on his Master’s thesis work (poor lighting due to Chris using his laptop instead of a reasonable camera) …
- Our recent paper on anti-microbial peptides based on the hard work of Sarah-Beth and Phil has been highlighted on the website of the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences at King’s College London – link.
2016
- Gerard submitted his first paper to the arXiv database (link). In this paper, Gerard has developed a partition-free approach to open quantum systems using a path-integral methodology.
- Chris was involved in three King’s Together proposals that were funding in their inaugural round of 28 proposals that were funded. One of which, that is focussed on attempting to use proteins to desalinate sea water so that it can be used as drinking water, was chosen to be included in the King’s College London’s Spotlight, see here.
- On 12 December, the Lorenz Lab had their Holiday Party, which was a great success, for more information and a picture see the Events page. Thanks again Jemma for organising.
- Mat & Irene both presented posters at the Francis Crick Institute as part of the Computational & Physical Biology Interest Group Workshop on 5 December.
- Phil has published his first paper since joining our group, in collaboration with Sarah-Beth … “Antimicrobial peptide potency is facilitated by greater conformational flexibility when binding to gram-negative bacterial inner membranes,” Sarah-Beth T. A. Amos, Louic S. Vermeer, Philip M. Ferguson, Justyna Kozlowska, Matthew Davy, Tam T. Bui, Alex F. Drake, Christian D. Lorenz & A. James Mason, Scientific Reports 6, 37639 (2016), link.
- Herve & Chris are organising the GLE 2017 – Generalised Langevin Equation: Theory & Applications conference with Lev Kantorovitch & Lorenzo Stella. Registration is now open!
- Dan had his third paper accepted … “Specific effects of monovalent counter ions on the structural and interfacial properties of dodecyl sulphate monolayers,” Daniel T. Allen, Yussif Saaka, Luis Carlos Pardo, M. Jayne Lawrence & Christian D. Lorenz, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 30394-30406 (2016), link.
- Herve, in collaboration with Lev Kantorovitch & Lorenzo Stella, has published the latest regarding their development of the Quantum Generalised Langevin Equation method … “c-number quantum generalised Langevin equation of an open system,” Lev Kantorovitch, Herve Ness, Lorenzo Stella & Christian D. Lorenz, Physical Review B 94, 184306 (2016), link.
- Chris published the latest result from his collaboration with Sylvia McLain and her postdoc Richard Gillams … “Comparative atomic-scale hydration of the ceramide and phosphocholine head group in solution and bilayer environments,” Richard J. Gillams, Christian D. Lorenz & Sylvia E. McLain, The Journal of Chemical Physics 144, 225101 (2016), link.
- Herve & Anna had their article in which Anna carried out simulations that applied Herve’s GLE-2B (Generalised Langevin Equation – Two Baths) method for classical molecular dynamics … “Nonequilibrium processes from generalized Langevin equations: Realistic nanoscale systems connected to two thermal baths,” Herve Ness, Anna Genina, Lorenzo Stella, Christian D. Lorenz & Lev Kantorovich, Physical Review B 93,174303 (2016), link.
- Chris published the latest results from his collaboration with Sylvia McLain and her Ph.D. student Nicola Steinke … “Atomic scale insights into urea-peptide interactions in solution,” Nicola Steinke, Richard J. Gilliams, Luis Carlos Pardo, Christian D. Lorenz & Sylvia E. McLain, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 3862-3870 (2016), link.