Achievement

During the summer of 2008, IGERT fellow Greg Smith completed an internship at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, MA, creating a web interface to computational docking software for use by medicinal chemists. He participated in outreach activities at the AIMS (Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science) school encompassing grades 6-12, including a workshop on ethics and advisement for Science fair projects. Greg also participated in a lab rotation in the UNM Division of Biocomputing with Prof. Tudor Oprea and his group, completing a virtual screening project looking for inhibitors of DDAH, a NOS related enzyme. Promising compounds from the screening were passed on to collaborators for bioassay. Currently he is writing a manuscript for molecular dynamics and DFT studies of a bacterial enzyme involved in virulence aspects of Salmonella and Shigella.