B.S., Appalachian State University, 1998 Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2003 Lenfant Biomedical Fellow (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH), 2008 Career Transition Award (K22, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH), 2009

Examination of structure, dynamics, and mechanism by simulation. Specifically, this focuses on two main areas; examination of antibiotic and inhibitor resistance mechanisms with hybrid quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods and elucidation of carbohydrate structure and dynamics as related to energy production. Development of new simulation and analysis techniques. This area primarily focuses on multi-scale modeling methods, techniques for computing free energies of enzymatically catalyzed reactions, and methods for probing the normal modes of complex systems.