Summary. Atomic level computer simulations have been intensively used in last decade as an additional and powerful tool to study the biological membranes and surfactant systems. In other words, the molecular dynamics (MD) method has been increasingly prominent in the field of computational membranology. MD simulations have already been recognized to be one of the most suitable methods for investigating such systems.
Successful results have been obtained from mono-component to heterogeneous systems, including pure DPPC, DPPC/DMPC mixtures, as well as from the models of human red blood erythrocyte and Escherichia coli (E.coli) cell membranes. At the same time, the amphiphilic system, which can be considered as a simple model of biological membranes, and has a wide range of applications in everyday life (detergents, cosmetics. food processing, agrochemicals, paper coatings, amongst others), have also been investigated.


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(*) Biodata: Dr. Armen Poghosyan did his PhD in Physics at the Yerevan State University in 2000 and has been working in the field of Biophysics and Computational Physics. He has taught courses at undergraduate and post graduate level related to bioinformatics at the International Scientific and Educational Center (ISEC) and Yerevan State University. Currently, Dr. Poghosyan is the Bioinformatics Group Leader at ISEC as well as Junior Associate of the ICTP since 2005. Dr. Poghosyan has published 25 scientific papers and conference proceedings.
He won an INTAS Young Scientist award and as a fellow he has visited Henry Poincare University (Nancy, France -2004) and Halle-Wittenberg University (Germany in the year 2005). Recently, he won the President Prize of Republic of Armenia in the field of Natural Science (Best research on Natural Science for the year 2007). His research interests are computational biophysics and molecular dynamics simulation of complex systems.



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