Curriculum Vitae For Benzhuo Lu

Benzhuo Lu

    "One-hundred talent program" Investigator, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, from 2008.

    Associate Professor, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008 - present.

 

OFFICE ADDRESS

Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computation
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100190, China
Tel:0086-10-62626492
Fax: 0086-10-62542285
email:
http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~lubz

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

  Associate Professor, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008 - present.

    Research associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, 2006 - 2008.

    Postdoc researcher, Chem. & Biochem. Dept of University of California at San Diego, 2003 - 2006.

    Visiting Student, the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 1999.6-1999.9

    Instructor, Yunnan Agriculture University, Kunming, China, 1993-1997.

EDUCATION

1997 - 2002, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
1989 - 1993, B.S. in Physics. East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

 

RESEARCH

Biophysical/chemical Computation, modeling  and simulation. Current focuses are on continuum modeling

of biomolecular system and solvation phenomena, numerical methods and software development,

and molecular dynamics simulation studies of proteins.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviews:
Reviewer for Journal of Computational Physics, Biophysical Journal, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Chem. Phys., Communications in Computational Physics, Journal of Phys. Chem. A, B.

Member:

the American Chemical Society, Biophysical Society, and Protein Society.

Conferences/Symposiums/Sessions Organized

Program committee Co-Chair and Conference Co-Chair, International Workshop on Continuum Modeling of Biomolecules (WCMB), September 14-16, 2009, Beijing, China.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Taught courses:

general physics and calculus (for undergraduate students)

Biomolecular modeling and Computation (for Ph.D graduate students)

　

TALKS ON CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP, OR SEMINAR

  1. International Workshop on Continuum Modeling of Biomolecules, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Sep. 14-17, 2009, Beijing

  2. Workshop on "Frontiers in Computational and Applied Mathematics", August 9-10, 2009, Tsinghua University, Beijing. August 9, 2009.

  3. Continuum modeling of electrodiffusion around single molecule, KITPC Workshop on "Dynamics and Biomolecular Machinery", Jul 29-Aug 10, 2009, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 29, 2009.

  4. 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 6-10, Denver, Colorado, July 10, 2009.

  5. 分子模拟中的自由能计算方法， Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. (中国科学院北京基因组研究所) May 8, 2009.

  6. 生物分子的连续模型模拟方法，School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. （北京大学数学学院） March 17, 2009.

  7. 生物分子体系的电扩散模型， Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. （清华大学周培源应用数学中心） Dev. 15, 2008.

  8. Lecture series (I, II, III), Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China. Dev. 8, 11, 17, 2008.

  9. "Modelling of Electrostatics and Diffusion Processes in Biological Systems", Frontiers in Science (FIS) program -- Integrated Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, a CTBP-CSUSM Seminar Series, California State University San Marcos, Sept. 25, 2008.
  10. "Fully-continuum diffusion -- the Poisson-Nernst-Planck model and some extensions" at the 2008 CTBP Summer School, Coarse-Grained Physical Modeling of Biological Systems: Advanced Theory and Methods, San Diego, CA, August 11-15, 2008.
  11. "Continuum modeling of electrodiffusion: from equlibrium to nonequilibrium states"，Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, 4/25/08.
  12. Informal Seminars on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics, "Boundary integral methods for electrostatics in biomolecules. Part I: An overview", 4/8/08,

     Spring quarter, 2008; And "Electrodiffusion", 10/2/07, Summer and Fall quarter, 2007. Department of Mathematics, UCSD.

    　

  13. "Some developments, improvements, and applications in biomolecular modeling techniques", Dec. 11, 2007, at the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computations, Beijing.

    　

  14. "Discrete and Continuum molecular modeling", Dec. 17, 2007, at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.

    　

  15. "Toward more efficient and accurate continuum modeling", Dec. 22, 2007, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing.

    　

  16. Cyberinfrastructure and multiscale modeling approaches,NBCR (National Biomedical Computation Resource) Summer Institute 2006, La Jolla, California, August 7-11 August, 2006, weblink: http://nbcr.net/si/2006/contact.php (Instructor).

    　

  17. "Electrostatics, density distribution, and diffusion - A continuum modeling frame with realistic spatiotemporal resolution" on March 7, 2007 at the Biophysical Society 51st Annual Meeting . Baltimore, Maryland, MD, March 3-7, 2007.

    　

  18. "Accelerating computations to order N for electrostatic interactions of biomolecular systems" on Sep. 11, 2006 at the 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006.

    　

  19. "Molecular Simulations of Protein Kinase A: Release of ADP from the catalytic subunit of PKA: A MD simulation study" on July 12, 2005 at ICAM Frontiers of Science Symposium: Signal Transduction and Protein Phosphorylation, UC San Diego, CA.

    　

  20. "A new minimization method for real protein folding prediction," presented on May. 30, 2002 at the Seventh Symposium on Life Science at Home and Abroad, the Academy of military medical sciences, Beijing, China.

    　

  21. "Dynamics simulation for protein-protein interaction" at Proceedings of Chinese Biomedical Engineering 2001 (CBME), Wuhan, China.

　

　

Poster Presentations

  1. "An adaptive fast multipole algorithm for electrostatic interactions in biomolecular systems" on Dec. 8-12, 2008 at Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) Annual Program Year Workshop: Solvation, Minnesota.
  2. "Solutions to a Model Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and the Determination of Reaction Rates”on Dec. 8-12, 2008 at Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) Annual Program Year Workshop: Solvation, Minnesota.
  3. ``Finite element Poisson-Nernst-Planck approach for electrodiffusion and reaction processes in biomolecular systems" on January 4-8, 2008 at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, session ``Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: from Molecules to Cells to Organisms", The Big Island of Hawaii, January 4-8, 2008.
  4. ``A calculation method of Poisson-Boltzmann forces between solvated macromolecules" on Biophysical Society 50th Annual Meeting, February 18-22, 2006, Salt Lake city, Utah.
  5. 　``Rate constant calculation of ligand binding with solvation force determined by boundary elementary method" on Mar. 13, 2005 at the 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA
  6. 　``Effect of E230Q to the synergistic binding of ATP and PKI to the catalytic subunit of PKA" on July 30, 2005 at 19th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society: The Integration of the Cellular Protein Machinery: Complexes to Networks, Boston, Massachusetts.