Shanmei Cheng, PhD Postdoc Molecular Biomechanics group PICB, Max-Planck Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences E-Mail : shanmei@picb.ac.cn

> Research

I study protein elasticity and folding by means of molecular dynamics simulations. My focus is on the elasticity of some of unfolded and natively unstructured proteins. We are interested in to what extent the elasticity of these proteins can be described by worm-like-chain or other random coil models.


> Publications

Transition State Ensemble for the folding of B domain of Protein A: A Comparison of Distributed Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Experiments
Shanmei Cheng, Yuedong Yang, Wenrui Wang, Haiyan Liu. Journal of Physical Chemistry B，2005, vol.109(49), pp.23645-23654.


> Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

09/2007 -	Junior Research Associate in the Protein Mechanics and Evolution group, PCIB, Max-Plank Society and Chinese Academy of Science. Application of force probe molecular dynamics simulations to study protein elasticity and folding.
09/2000 - 12/2005	PhD student at the School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. Development of methods to enhance sampling in the huge conformational space and its application to simulate large time-scale motions such as protein folding and conformational change.