PHYSWednesday, August 22, 2007

8:20 AM-12:00 PM BCEC -- 158, Oral
Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other?
QM/MM Methods and Applications
Organizers:Jiali Gao
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Presiding:Wei Yang
8:20 AMMixed QM/MM methods based on high resolution protein structure prediction and ab initio quantum chemistry: Methodology and applications
Richard Friesner
9:00 AMQM/MM simulations of organic and enzymatic reactions
William L. Jorgensen
9:40 AMAb initio QM/MM molecular dynamics simulation of enzyme catalysis in histone lysine methylation
Yingkai Zhang, Shenglong Wang, Po Hu
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMHydrolysis of formamide and the proficiency of amidohydrolases: The burden borne by kW
Kenneth M. Merz Jr.
11:00 AMA quantum picture of hemoglobin affinity
Victor Guallar, Raul Alcantara
11:40 AMHow important is sampling in spectroscopic characterizations of metalloenzymes using QM/MM simulations?
Shuo Yang, Demian Riccardi, Nilanjan Ghosh, Qiang Cui

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007