Group News & Photos


Pengfei has been selected to serve in the Early Career Board of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, one of the ACS journals about computational modeling. His service period will be 01/2025-12/2027.

Pengfei has given a seminar at the University of Maryland about metal ion models on Nov. 6th!

Pengfei has given an online workshop talk titled "Running Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics for Customized Regions in OpenMM" on Oct 28th for the GaMD workshop hosted by the University of North Carolina!
We had a belated celebration for Luke's graduation in 09/2024 and Luke prepared a gift for everyone!

Pengfei gave a department seminar on 09/05/2024, introducing our group's work to the department.

Madelyn has been back from her summer internship from OpenEye! And she is ready for the Fall semester!



Pengfei, Richa, and Bailey attended the ACS Meeting 2024 Fall in August 2024 at Denver! Pengfei co-organized a symposium for Prof. Kenneth M. Merz Jr.'s 65th birthday. Each of Pengfei, Richa, and Bailey gave an oral/poster presentation at ACS!


Luke passed his PhD defense on June 11, 2024! Congratulations Dr. Landry!




Pengfei was invited to give a talk at the 54th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference!
Richa and Bailey gave poster presentations at the conference!



Li group at the end of 2024 Spring semester.

Li group watches the solar eclipse together! 2024 at Chicago.

Li group at the end of 2023 Summer semester. Farewell for Yang! Best wishes!

Li group at the end of 2023 Spring semester.

Li group at the departmental poster session! 2023 Spring at Loyola.

Group dinner after cleaning the office/lab on August 10, 2021. Now the office/lab is ready for use!