News
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November 03, 2026
Congrats to Erdong for his simulations of the Nuclear Pore Complex, which appeared today in Journal of Chemical Physics!
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October 29, 2026
Congrats to George and Erdong for their review article that describes the dynamics of large assemblies. It appeared today in Current Opinion in Structural Biology!
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October 21, 2026
Congrats to Raven and George for their simulations of TACO1 on the mitochondrial ribosome, which appeared today in Nature Communications!
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August 07, 2026
Congrats to George for his simulations of tmRNA translocation on the ribosome, which appeared today in Science Advances.
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April 07, 2026
Congrats to George for his paper “Transient ion-mediated interactions regulate subunit rotation in a eukaryotic ribosome,” which appeared today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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December 22, 2025
See our commentary on the physics of gene expression, which appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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July 01, 2025
We are very happy that the NIH/NIAID awarded us a collaborative 5-year (R01) grant to pursue computational studies of HIV-1 inhibition!
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May 01, 2025
Thank you to the CHEETAH Center for Structural Biology of HIV, which selected us for a collaborative development award!
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February 01, 2025
Check out our recent review article Simulating Biomolecules for Physiological Timescales.
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August 15, 2024
Congrats to Esteban for his simulations on the spike protein that appeared in Science today!
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May 20, 2024
Congrats to Asem Hassan for his co-first-author paper on the mitochondrial ribosome! In this study, we reported the first simulations of a large-scale conformational motion in a mitoribosome. The results appeared in Nature Communications.
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May 15, 2024
Welcome to the new Whitford Group page! Due to a system upgrade, we had to rapidly manually migrate to this new format. The page should have all of the same information, but it might take a while to iron out all of the kinks.
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May 01, 2024
A big thanks to the NIH for awarding us a 5-year MIRA (R35) grant for our computational and theoretical studies of bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes!