Associate Professor, Chemistry Dept., @TCNJ. Computational chemist. @ChemCUR Councilor. Trenton @ACS Local Section Chair. Violinist. he/him

Joined February 2009
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Excited to be bringing significant additional resources to our supercomputer, ELSA, at @TCNJ. Awesome facility and incredibly impactful for our students and faculty to engage in research! Check out the linked article for more info! #NSFfunded @ChemistryTcnj @TCNJScience
20 Oct 2023
TCNJ has been awarded a $935,000 National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, which will be used to purchase and upgrade equipment in the ELSA High Performance Computing cluster. Read more: bit.ly/408wqw6 @TCNJScience @NSF #tcnj
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Check out our featured work in @nanoscale_rsc emerging from collaboration with @PomaResearch. @TCNJ @ChemistryTcnj
🚨 Exciting news! Our research on the nanomechanics of a potent nanobody binding SARS-CoV2 variants is featured on the cover of @nanoscale_rsc! 🎉 👉: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… #SARSCoV2 #ScienceArt Creator: @GustavoOlivos9 will unveil the making of the figure—stay tuned!
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Lots of great applications with GōMartini possible in the area of nanomechanics! Looking forward to more to come from collaboration between me and my students at @TCNJScience and @PomaResearch!
Thrilled to share our latest work on the nanomechanics of an antibody targeting #SARSCoV2, revealed by 💪GōMartini 3 simulations! 🧬 In collaboration with @CG_Martini and @JosephLBaker labs, now out in @nanoscale_rsc (Open Access). #nanotech #COVID19 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… (1/n)
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24 Sep 2024
We've elevated our ranking! The #1 public college is now the #1 college overall. — U.S. News 2025 Best Colleges (Regional Universities North) Read more: bit.ly/3XBdmpk #TCNJ
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I’m running for #POTACS. The election will start on September 23rd. I ask for your vote and support. The time I need your help starts NOW! Please let me know what YOU and our members need. Please encourage everyone to vote! @AmerChemSociety #ChemTwitter rigobertohernandez.org/
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30 Apr 2024
Today, over 500 students from all seven schools showcased their work in papers, posters, presentations, exhibitions, and more! We applaud all our students for their hard work and dedication this Celebration of Student Achievement Day!
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My student Noor Grewal and I are looking forward to hearing the feedback from the talk! Always interesting collaborations with @PomaResearch and his group! @TCNJScience @ChemistryTcnj #BakerCompChemLab
The Hünfeld workshop is in sight. Our PhD student @GustavoOlivos9 from @ipptpan will give a talk about the conformational sampling of the telomere binding protein from Monkeypox Virus with a IDR in timescales of 100 μs by GōMartini 3. #disorder #compchem #virus
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Congrats to group members, Karolina Wielowski, Vani Lorish, and Noor Grewal, for giving their first conference talks at the 87th ISCC this weekend! All three gave fantastic talks and Karolina won the 1st place prize in computation! #TCNJ #TCNJChemistry #TCNJScience #NSFFunded
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5 Apr 2024
A seismogram of the magnitude 4.8 earthquake was recorded in Physics Professor Shannon Graham's office in the Science Complex at TCNJ. According to Graham, TCNJ's resident earthquake expert, earthquakes in New Jersey are 'not common but are not unexpected.'
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Go team! @TCNJScience
Extremely proud of our School of Science team for our $935K @NSF MRI award, supporting significant upgrades to our HPC cluster, ELSA. Work led by @JosephLBaker and @shawnsivy, supported by @Jen_Aleman_ and @TCNJ_OGSR. Pictured PIs: @WLClement @mostnerdy @BioMathNard @ParadaChem
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11 May 2023
Rock, rock ... who's there?🪨 TCNJ physics professor Nate Magee confirmed today that the object that recently crashed landed into a home not far from campus is, indeed, from outer space. Read more from the @AP: bit.ly/3VVCCFo @tcnjscience #tcnj #tcnjiseverywhere
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Way to go to our Physics department for helping to solve this mystery! See Dr. Shannon Graham in the interview! @PhysicsTcnj #tcnj
Chopper 6 flew over the home where the object went through the roof and landed on the floor. 6abc.com/meteor-shower-hopew…
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Great final presentations today from #TCNJchemistry comp chem advanced course students! 21 students (vast majority had never accessed a terminal 15 weeks ago) simulated proteins with Amber, analyzed data with VMD and Python, all on our #ELSA cluster at #TCNJ! #NSFfunded
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Thanks to Catherine Fairfield for taking the fun intermission video, and to @shawnsivy, our #TCNJScience HPC admin, for all of the support this semester!
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Congrats to @oconnorlabtcnj member Alexis! So proud of your accomplishments!
A big congratulations to our two seniors who won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition. This prestigious fellowship provides awardees with a $37,000 stipend and tuition coverage at their grad school of choice for three years. We are very proud!
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The F pilus is an extraordinary filament. Check out our Nature Communications paper (rdcu.be/c9cql) on this system with Magnus Andersson (Umeå Univ) and Tiago Costa (Imperial College London)! #BakerCompChemLab #TCNJ #TCNJChemistry #TCNJScience #NSFFunded

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Our latest work on bacterial adhesion pili was just published in Structure sciencedirect.com/science/ar…! A great collaboration with the labs of Magnus Andersson (Umeå Univ) and Esther Bullitt (BU School of Medicine)! #BakerCompChemLab #TCNJ #TCNJChemistry #TCNJScience #NSFFunded

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Very proud of #BakerCompChemLab members Vani Lorish and Noor Grewal who earned undergraduate poster awards at tonight's #ACSCOMP poster session at #ACSSpring2023! Congratulations! #TCNJ #TCNJChemistry #TCNJScience #NSFFunded
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Congrats to the amazing undergraduates from my group, Zach Alseika, Jennifer Goldstein, Mahnoor Ahmed, Vani Lorish, and Noor Grewal, on your presentations at tonight's @ACSCOMP poster session! #TCNJ #TCNJChemistry #TCNJScience #BakerCompChemLab #ACSSpring2023 #NSFfunded
Shoutout to our students in the Baker lab doing great work in Computational Chemistry! @JosephLBaker Congrats on another successful poster session! #ACS2023 #ACSSpring2023 @TCNJScience @TCNJ
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