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Corey O'Hern

Professor; Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Physics, Applied Physics and Graduate Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Research Interests: Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems; glass and jamming transitions in soft matter; computational biology; protein structure, interactions, and design.

Research Area(s)

Computational biology

Properties, structure, and composition of biological systems

Systems biology

O'Hern Lab

PEB Students

  • Sam Banks

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)

  • Naomi Brandt

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Computational biophysics with a focus in molecular dynamics and modeling

  • Dr. Diego Caballero

    Physics (O'Hern & Regan Labs)
    Thesis title: “Computational studies of protein structure”

  • Alex Calabrese

    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (O'Hern Lab)

  • Yuxuan Cheng

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Computational Physics

  • Devon Finlay

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Computational studies of the biophysical properties of proteins

  • Dr. Jennifer Gaines

    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (O'Hern & Regan Labs)
    Thesis title: “Computational studies of protein structure”

  • Gautham Gopinath

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Spreading dynamics of cell aggregates

  • Dr. Alex Grigas

    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (O'Hern Lab)
    Thesis title: “Investigating the Connection Between Protein Folding, Polymer Collapse and Jamming”

  • Zhuoyi Liu

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Computational modeling of proteins

  • Arthur MacKeith

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: I am interested in soft matter, biophysics, and emergent phenomena.

  • Marshall McCraw

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Role of particle deformability in glassy dynamics and emergent mechanical properties.

  • Dr. Zhe Mei

    Chemistry (O'Hern)
    Thesis title: “Computational Studies of Proteins: Void analyses, NMR and X-ray structures, Fluctuations in protein structure measured using molecular dynamics simulations”

  • Dr. Grace Meng

    Chemistry (O'Hern)
    Thesis title: “Computational Studies of Protein-Protein Interfaces and Docking”

  • Emmanuel Mintah

    Biomedical Engineering (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: I’m interested in the computational modeling of the geometry and mechanics of cellular processes, most notably cell division.

  • Jake Sumner

    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: I am interested in computationally modeling protein-protein interactions and assessing their quality to create robust scoring functions with deep-learning techniques.

  • Andrew Ton

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Computational models of tissue development and repair

  • Dr. John (Jack) Treado

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Thesis title: “Computational Studies of Packing and Jamming in Biological Systems”

  • Dr. Kyle Vanderwerf

    Physics (O'Hern Lab)
    Thesis title: “Geometry and contact mechanics of athermal jammed packings of frictionless spherical and nonspherical particles”

  • Dr. Alejandro Virrueta

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern and Regan Labs)
    Thesis title: “Predicting side chain dihedral angles of protein cores and beyond: An exploration of the limits of the hard-sphere model”

  • Dr. Peter Williams

    Applied Physics (O'Hern Lab)

  • Annie Xia

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: Disorder and amorphous structures, granular matter, nonlinear systems

  • Yitong Zheng

    Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (O'Hern Lab)
    Research Interests: I’m interested in understanding the behavior of biological systems with computational models.

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