Nanyang Technology University

Academic Profile
Asst Prof Lu Lanyuan 

Assistant Professor 
Division of Structural Biology & Biochemistry 
School of Biological Sciences 
College of Science 



Email: LYLU@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)63162866 
Office: SBS-03s-82 
Education
  • PhD in Chemistry University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill 2007
  • BS in Chemistry Xiamen University 2001
Biography
Professional Experience
●Assistant Professor, Division of Structural and Computational Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Since September 2011.
●Computational Postdoctoral Fellow, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory: 2010-2011.
●Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago: 2010.
●Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Chemistry and Center for Biological Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah: 2007-2010.
Research Interests
●Developing computational methods for multiscale modeling of biomolecular systems.
● Coarse-grained simulations of biomembranes, peptides, and proteins.
Research Grant
  • College of Science Collaborative Research Award (2012-)
  • IDA Grant Call on Cloud Computing (2012-)
  • Start Up Grant (2011-)
Current Projects
  • Examination on Disintegration of Non-B DNA Structures by DNA Helicase-Affiliated Positive DNA Supercoils from Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives
  • Examination on disintegration of non-B DNA structures by DNA helicase-affiliated positive DNA supercoils from both theoretical and experimental perspectives
  • Experiment-aided Molecular Modeling: Applications to Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations
  • Multiscale coarse-graining via cloud computing
Selected Publications
  • Fei Xia and Lanyuan Lu. (2012). Multiscale Coarse-Graining via Normal Mode Analysis. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (ACS), Articles ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/ct3006387.
  • Lu LY and Voth GA. (2011). The Multiscale Coarse-Graining Method. ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 149, 47-81.
  • Hills RD, Lu LY and Voth GA. (2010). Multiscale coarse-graining of the protein energy landscape. PLoS Computational Biology, 6(6), e1000827.
  • Lu LY, Izvekov S, Das A, Andersen HC and Voth GA. (2010). Efficient, regularized, and scalable algorithms for multiscale coarse-graining calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (ACS), 6(3), 954.
  • Lu LY and Voth GA. (2009). Systematic coarse-graining of a multi-component lipid biayer. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113(5), 1501.
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