Diwakar Shukla led a research study that explored how cell membranes can change the behavior of proteins embedded within them. The study focused on a specific protein called aquaporin, which acts as a microscopic water channel in cells.
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Congratulations to Huimin Zhao and Mitchell Lab for this beautiful work!

Congratulations to Austin T Weigle, recent chemistry PhD from our group for receiving the CCG excellence award for graduate students at the American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans! ACS COMP Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois U of I College of LAS

Congratulations to RIPE PI Diwakar Shukla for receiving the 2023-2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research from The Grainger College of Engineering!

Diwakar will be honored at a ceremony next month. Read more about the award and his work here: bit.ly/49EQZ7l Shukla Group

Loki, the cat visited our group today to learn about meow-chine learning! He is one of the seven cats adopted by our group members. ChBE Illinois

Congratulations to Diwakar Diwakar Shukla and our group for receiving the Dean’s award for excellence in research by College of Engineering! ChBE Illinois Illinois BIOE The Grainger College of Engineering chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/6…

We are ready with the new AI generated #cat poster for our first graduate recruiting weekend of this year. Come and learn about available positions in our group at 10:30 am in the ballroom of the Illini Union! ChBE Illinois Diwakar Shukla

Congratulations to our newest doctor, Dr. Austin T. Weigle! Thanks to Prof. Gruebele, Mitchell and Chen for serving on the thesis committee.

Our holiday donations for the animal shelter run by Champaign Humane society are ready! CCHS ChBE Illinois

Why are so many AI experts former theoretical physicists? The connections run really deep.

Surya Ganguli has a great review paper that goes deep on this, giving us understanding of how AI works via statistical physics.

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Join us for the thesis defense of Austin Weigle on Dec 14 at 9 am in RAL171 to learn about substrate selectivity of membrane sugar #transporters in #plants ! DM us for the zoom link. @shuklagroup Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois

Congratulations Dr. Dutta! PhD #9 from Shukla Group!

The substrate import mechanism of the human serotonin transporter
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Biophysical Journal highlight hand-picked by Editor-in-Chief Vasanthi Jayaraman
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Please join us for Soumajit Dutta’s Soumajit Dutta thesis defense on “Molecular Mechanism of Ligand Induced Regulation of #Cannabinoids Receptors” Friday, Nov 10 at 9:30 am in CLSL B102. ChBE Illinois Diwakar Shukla U of I College of LAS

Interested in the ChBE Illinois graduate program? Join a virtual info session to find out about crafting a successful application, the admission process, and why Illinois could be the right fit for you! Sessions on Oct 18, Oct 26 and Nov 15. Learn more at bit.ly/3Q0XgS8

In this work, we explore the (un)binding mechanism of “street drugs” such as Fubinaca in #cannabinoid receptors using Markov State Models and TRAM to combine biased and unbiased simulations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new manuscript explaining the difference between the effects of new psychoactive substances and classical cannabinoids on cannabinoid receptors. Shukla Group We thank the Folding@home donors for providing us computing time for this work.

Our Diwakar Shukla is part of an NSF grant working to develop technology that could recover rare-earth elements & platinum metals from waste streams of U.S. mines.

Read more about the work here: chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/5…

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Researchers including ChBE professors Xiao Su, Diwakar Shukla and Alex Mironenko have received $2 million from NSF for the development of new materials to recover critical elements from U.S. mines.

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