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Pitt Biology Professor Jacob Durrant's lab created this still image of a molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) based on a recent paper describing the Pyrite plugin, developed by the lab for simulations that employ rendering techniques from film and gaming. Durrant's team used Pitt CRC resources in creating a protein with bushy green hair as a dramatic way of demonstrating Pyrite’s ability to marry MDS with 3D gaming graphics. Please note: the Durrant lab is aware that proteins with green hair don’t actually exist. Nonetheless, the hairy protein made the cover of the December 2017 Journal of Computational Chemistry.
Working with a CRC research faculty consultant, Pitt Economics Professor Stefania Albanesi processed a large panel of anonymous data on debt and defaults. Her findings shift the accepted narrative that the credit crisis was caused by subprime borrowers defaulting on mortgages. Albanesi found instead that the biggest growth in mortgage debt actually came from borrowers with high and medium credit scores, not those with low scores. “It was the borrowers with higher credit scores who also represented a disproportionate number of defaults," explains Albanesi. Find out more about her work in the April 17 National Public Radio story 
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Molecular Dynamics in Hollywood 3D
Biology Professor Jacob Durrant creates simulations for drug discovery and teaching.
Pitt CRC enables outreach at the interface of disciplines
User experience refinements put high-powered computing at the fingertips of the entire research community.
Lillian Chong focuses on underexplored regions
Chemistry Professor Lillian Chong collaborates on WESTPA software to intensify molecular simulation.
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