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Marie Curie funding for Jocelyne Vreede 


Dr Jocelyne Vreede of the Computational Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has recently been awarded funding as part of the Marie Curie doctoral network MeChaNiSM. This will enable her to appoint two PhD students who will work on molecular simulation methods for nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). The aim […]

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Enhanced sampling strategies for molecular simulation of DNA


In a review paper that has been recently published in WIREs Computational Molecular Science, researchers of the Computational Science group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences describe successful approaches for simulating molecular systems involving DNA. They show how these can be combined in several ways to tackle complex DNA transitions, integrating information […]

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Gravitation grant for ANION: Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands


On March 25, the Dutch Science Foundation NWO announced that the consortium “Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION)” will receive a Gravitation grant of 23.6 million euros for research into electrochemical processes that are important for the energy transition. The van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) is one of the partners in […]

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ChemBioChem article by Carlo, Ioana & Jocelyne


In collaboration with researchers at VU Amsterdam, our group members Carlo Bigiotti, Ioana Ilie and Jocelyne Vreede have published an article in ChemBioChem titled Binding Dynamics of a Stapled Peptide Targeting the Transcription Factor NF−Y. In this paper, they investigate how truncated stapled α-helical peptides interact with the transcription factor Nuclear Factor-Y. Via molecular dynamics […]

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