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Professor Jonathan W. Essex (Director of Research, Computational Systems Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Southampton) has been invited as part of the SCILS.
He will present a DEPARTMENTAL LECTURE on Protein-Ligand Binding by Free Energy Simulations: Issues, Successes and Failures.
Further information about Prof Essex and his research is available at https://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/jessex/
Members of the Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU) celebrated with Tharindu Senapathi as he became the first graduate of the Master degree in Computational Science at UCT and in South Africa.
Multidimensional Reaction Dynamics Reveal How the Enzyme TcTS Suppresses Competing Side Reactions and Their Side Products. The suppression of competing reactions that lead to side products is one of the key mechanistic actions defining enzyme catalysis. The transfer of sialic acid (SA) in a water solution is susceptible to two competing side reactions, but a single product is the outcome in the glycosylation and deglycosylation.