Vincent Voelz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford University
Pande Lab, Clark S296
MC 5080
Stanford, CA 94305-5080
(650) 723-1097
vvoelz@stanford.edu
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Education
| Ph.D. |
University of California-San Francisco. Biophysics, 2007. Ken Dill, Adviser.
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| B.S. |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Physics, 1999.
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Experience
| 2007- |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. Chemistry, Vijay Pande Laboratory at Stanford University.
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| 2001-2007 |
Graduate Fellow in Biophysics, UCSF. Ken Dill Laboratory.
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| 1999-2001 |
Junior Scientist in David D. Thomas Laboratory at University of Minnesota.
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Awards and Fellowships
| 2003-2005 |
Burroughs Wellcome Interfaces in Science Graduate Fellowship
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| 2003 |
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowships
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| 2003 |
UCSF Graduate Group in Biophysics Admissions Committee
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| 2002 |
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowships
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| 1999 |
IT Honors Program, University of Minnesota, Magna cum laude
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| 1994-1995 |
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Undergraduate Researcher. Dr. David D. Thomas, Adviser
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| 1993-1994 |
University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Honors Program Research Scholarship
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Teaching
| 2006 |
Teaching Assistant/Lecturer, Mathematical Biology "Bootcamp", UCSF
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| 2002 |
Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Mathematical Biology, UCSF
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| 1993-1994 |
Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota Talented Youth Math Project
(UMTYMP)
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Publications
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Invited Talks
| 2009 |
Simbios Seminar, NIH center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford University. Stanford, CA, November 2009. "Using distributing computing and GPU simulation to study protein unfolded states and folding dynamics."
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| 2009 |
Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing 2009, Hawaii. "A Multiscale method for sampling nascent peptide chains in the ribosomal exit tunnel."
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| 2004 |
Topics in Quantitaive Biology, UCSF. "Zipping as a fast conformational search strategy: computational complexity in biology"
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| 2003 |
Burroughs Wellcome Fund meeting, San Diego, CA. Zipping: a fast conformational search strategy for protein folding
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Poster Presentations
| 2010 |
Protein Dynamics Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, January 2010. "Molecular simulation of ab initio protein folding for a millisecond folder NTL9(1-39)"
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| 2009 |
BCATS, 2008, Stanford, CA, November 2009. "Molecular simulation of ab initio protein folding for a millisecond folder NTL9(1-39)"
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| 2009 |
Proteins Gordon Research Conference, Holderness, NH, July 2009. "Dynamic heterogeneity and residual structure in unfolded states of protein L"
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| 2009 |
Keynote Synmposium on Protein Dynamics, Allostery and Function. Keystone, CO, June, 2009. "Dynamic heterogeneity and residual structure in unfolded states of protein L"
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Research Interests
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