The ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry and the Chemical Computing Group is pleased to announce the latest winners of the CCG Excellence Awards for the Spring 2004 meeting in Anaheim, CA. Congratulations to the winners!

Xiaolin Cheng - "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 8-oxoguanine:A mismatch DNA", Stony Brook University

Alexander Perryman - "HIV-1 Protease Molecular Dynamics of a Wild-Type and of the V82F/I84V Mutant: Possible Contributions to Drug Resistance and a Potential New Target Site for Drugs.", Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Asif Ladiwala - "Prediction of Protein Affinity in Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography using Quantitative Structure-Retention Relationship (QSRR) Models", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Asim Okur - "Multiple pathways in beta-hairpin folding and unfolding simulations", Stony Brook University

Jessica Swanson - "Revisiting Free Energy Calculations: One Step Closer to Rigorous Scoring Functions and One Step beyond MM/PBSA", University of California, San Diego

Ivan Tubert-Brohman - "Improved Semiempirical Methods: Parameterization of PDDG/PM3 for Sulfur". Yale University

Sarah A. Mueller Stein - "The Influence of Steric Congestion on the Dynamics and Geometry of DNA", Duquesne University

Wei (David) Deng - "Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities using Transferable Atom Equivalent (TAE) Techniques And Machine-Learning Methods", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Andreas Bender - "Similarity Searching using Atom Environments, Information Gain based Feature Selection and the Naïve Bayesian Classifier", University of Cambridge

Anne E. Loccisano - "Development of New CHARMM Force Field Parameters for Novel DNA Bending Agents", Duquesne University

For more information please contact:

Prof. Curt M. Breneman:
Treasurer, ACS COMP Division
RPI Department of Chemistry
110 8th St.; Troy, NY 12180.
brenec@rpi.edu