<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-02T17:21:48-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Chong Lab</title><subtitle>The official website for the Chong Lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Baily Ford Graduate Student Highlight</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/BWF-Gradstudent-Highlight/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Baily Ford Graduate Student Highlight" /><published>2025-07-14T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2025-07-14T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/BWF-Gradstudent-Highlight</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/BWF-Gradstudent-Highlight/"><![CDATA[<p>Chong Lab member, Baily Ford, has been highlighted by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry. Read the highlight <a href="https://www.chem.pitt.edu/graduate/meet-our-students/baily-ford-modernizing-molecular-mechanics">here</a>!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Article" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chong Lab member, Baily Ford, has been highlighted by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry. Read the highlight here!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Anthony Bogetti awarded Best Graduate Student Paper from the University of Pittsburgh</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/ATB-Paper-Award/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Anthony Bogetti awarded Best Graduate Student Paper from the University of Pittsburgh" /><published>2025-02-21T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-02-21T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/ATB-Paper-Award</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/ATB-Paper-Award/"><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to Anthony Bogetti for being awarded the best graduate student paper from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry in 2024. Check out this <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c03360">paper</a> on the mechanism of the azide-clock reaction!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Article" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Congratulations to Anthony Bogetti for being awarded the best graduate student paper from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry in 2024. Check out this paper on the mechanism of the azide-clock reaction!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Darian Yang Publishes PNAS Paper on the Flexibility of HIV Capsid</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PNAS-Paper/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Darian Yang Publishes PNAS Paper on the Flexibility of HIV Capsid" /><published>2025-02-18T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-02-18T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PNAS-Paper</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PNAS-Paper/"><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to Darian Yang for his PNAS paper on the flexibility of the viral HIV capsid. Check out the paper <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420371122">here</a>!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Article" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Congratulations to Darian Yang for his PNAS paper on the flexibility of the viral HIV capsid. Check out the paper here!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Open Science Conversations: An Interview with Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-ACS/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Open Science Conversations: An Interview with Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh" /><published>2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-ACS</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-ACS/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://axial.acs.org/publishing/open-science-conversations-an-interview-with-lillian-chong-university-of-pittsburgh">ACS Axial has interviewed</a> Dr. Lillian Chong regarding her research and views on open source software in the scientific community.
Check it out!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Achievements" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[ACS Axial has interviewed Dr. Lillian Chong regarding her research and views on open source software in the scientific community. Check it out!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Darian Yang awarded PhD</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PhD/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Darian Yang awarded PhD" /><published>2024-08-26T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2024-08-26T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PhD</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-PhD/"><![CDATA[<p>Chong lab graduate student, Darian Yang, has defended his <a href="https://www.mbsb.pitt.edu/index.php/site-map/articles/80-latest-news/398-congrats-darian">thesis</a>.
Congratulations on your PhD, Darian!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Achievements" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chong lab graduate student, Darian Yang, has defended his thesis. Congratulations on your PhD, Darian!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Jeremy Leung awarded PhD</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-PhD/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Jeremy Leung awarded PhD" /><published>2024-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2024-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-PhD</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-PhD/"><![CDATA[<p>Chong lab graduate student, Jeremy Leung, has defended his thesis.
Congratulations on your PhD, Jeremy!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Achievements" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chong lab graduate student, Jeremy Leung, has defended his thesis. Congratulations on your PhD, Jeremy!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">DTY Won Outstanding Poster Award</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-Poster/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="DTY Won Outstanding Poster Award" /><published>2024-01-17T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2024-01-17T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-Poster</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/DTY-Poster/"><![CDATA[<p>Chong lab graduate student, Darian Yang, is awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the <a href="https://www.grc.org/protein-folding-dynamics-conference/2024/">Gordon Research Conference in Protein Folding</a>.</p>

<p>The poster title is “An Alternate State of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein CTD Dimer: <sup>19</sup>F NMR and Weighted Ensemble MD”.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Achievements" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chong lab graduate student, Darian Yang, is awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference in Protein Folding. The poster title is “An Alternate State of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein CTD Dimer: 19F NMR and Weighted Ensemble MD”.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">JML Awarded MOLSSI Software Fellowship</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-MolSSI/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="JML Awarded MOLSSI Software Fellowship" /><published>2023-06-20T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2023-06-20T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-MolSSI</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/JML-MolSSI/"><![CDATA[<p>Chong lab graduate student, Jeremy Leung, is awarded a 2023-2024 <a href="https://molssi.org/introducing-molssis-2023-24-software-fellows/">MolSSI Software Fellowship</a>!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Achievements" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chong lab graduate student, Jeremy Leung, is awarded a 2023-2024 MolSSI Software Fellowship!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">LTC Featured in PittWire</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-PittWire/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="LTC Featured in PittWire" /><published>2022-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2022-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-PittWire</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/LTC-PittWire/"><![CDATA[<p>Lillian Chong is featured in 2022 by PittWire as <a href="https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/ones-watch/lillian-chong">Ones to Watch</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Article" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Lillian Chong is featured in 2022 by PittWire as Ones to Watch.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">WESTPA Coronavirus Research featured on New York Times</title><link href="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/WESTPA-NYT/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="WESTPA Coronavirus Research featured on New York Times" /><published>2021-12-01T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2021-12-01T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/WESTPA-NYT</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/news/WESTPA-NYT/"><![CDATA[<p>WESTPA-enabled spike-opening simulations of the coronavirus featured on the front page of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/01/science/coronavirus-aerosol-simulation.html">The New York Times (December 1, 2021)</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="News" /><category term="Post" /><category term="News" /><category term="Article" /><category term="WESTPA" /><category term="COVID-19" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[WESTPA-enabled spike-opening simulations of the coronavirus featured on the front page of The New York Times (December 1, 2021).]]></summary></entry></feed>