Publications

• Benz, R. W., Castro-Román, F., Tobias, D.J., White, S. H. (2006). Experimental Validation of Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lipid Bilayers: A New Approach. Biophys. J., 88: 805-817.
• Benz, R. W., Nanda, H., Castro-Román, F., White, S. H., Tobias, D.J. Diffraction-based Density Restraints for Membrane and Membrane- peptide Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophys. J. Submitted.

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A Brief Curriculum Vitae

• 2006: Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
• 2005: M.S. Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
• 2001: B.S. Chemistry, Chapman University
• 2001: B.S. Mathematics/Computer Science, Chapman University

Research Interests

Computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, membrane/protein biophysics, computer simulations

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