Max Planck

Olga López Acevedo, -Bs. Physics at Université de Strasbourg (France) 2000. -Master in Statistical Physics, Université de Cergy (France) 2002,  -PhD in Theoretical Physics, Université de Cergy (France) in 2006, -Postdoc, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) 2006-2011 -Postdoc, Aalto University (Finland) 2011-2014 -Group Leader and Academy Fellow at Center for Computational Nanoscience Aalto University (Finland) 2014-2018 -Associate Professor, Universidad de Antioquia 2018-present Research interests: Materials discovery and modeling. Density Functional Theory method developments.

Biography

Olga López Acevedo es actualmente Profesora en el Instituto de Física de la Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Su investigación se centra en el descubrimiento de nanobiomateriales con el apoyo de simulaciones por ordenador. En particular, es experta en las propiedades electrónicas de nanomateriales organometálicos y en el desarrollo de métodos computacionales para sistemas a gran escala. Anteriormente, ganó el premio de investigación joven Academy of Finland Fellow y fue líder del grupo Computational Soft and Molecular Matter en el Center of Excellence for Computational Nanosciences COMP en la Universidad Aalto (Finlandia). Desde abril de 2021 es la nueva líder de grupo del grupo Tandem BioTD.

Publicaciones

Materials discovery and modeling

• Physical Review Materials 4 (6), 065601 (2020).
• Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9 (16), 4789 (2018).
• Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (20), 4061 (2015). 
• Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (23), 8210-8218 (2010).
• Nature chemistry 2 (4), 329 (2010).

Method Development

• Physical Review B 151 (24), 244101 (2019).
• International Journal of Molecular Sciences  19 (8), 2346 (2018).
• Journal of Chemical Physics 141 (23), 234102 (2014).

Ex líder del grupo: Pilar Cossio -B.S. Physics, University of Antioquia, Colombia. 2007. -Ph.D. Physics and Chemistry of Biological Systems. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. 2011. -Postdoc. NIDDK, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA. 2012 - 2013. -Postdoc. Dept. of Theoretical Biophysics, 2013 - 2016 Tandem Group Leader. Max Planck Institute of Biophysics / University of Antioquia, Colombia. 2016 - 2021. -Research Scientist. Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, USA. 2021 - Present.

Publicaciones en el Grupo Tandem 

• J. Giraldo-Barreto S. Ortiz, E H Thiede, K Palacio-Rodriguez, B Carpenter, A H Barnett, P Cossio (2021) Scientific Reports..
• R. Ochoa, M. Soler, A. Laio, and P. Cossio. (2021) Comput. Phys. Commun. 260, 107716
• S. Ortiz, L. Stanisic, B. A. Rodriguez, M. Rampp, G. Hummer, and P. Cossio. J. Strut. Biolo. X. 2020.
• I.Lans, E. Anoz-Carbonell, K. Palacio-Rodriguez, J. A. Ainsa, M. Medina and P. Cossio. PLoS Comput. Biolo. 2020.
• R. Covino, M. T. Woodside, G. Hummer, A. Szabo, and P. Cossio. J. Chem. Phys. Vol. 151, 154115. 2019. 
• Palacio-Rodriguez, Lans, Cavasotto, and Cossio. (2019) Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 5142-5156.

Postdoc Isaias Lans  -Bioengineer, University of Antioquia, Colombia, 2009. -Internship. Biochemistry and Structural Biology Group, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA, 2011. -Internship. ChEMBL Research Group, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom, 2012. -Internship. Global Chemical Information Group, Novartis Institute for    Biomedical Research (NIBR), Switzerland, 2013. -MSc in Basic Biomedical Sciences (Emphasis in Bioinformatics), University of Antioquia, Colombia, 2013. -Internship. International School of Advanced Studies, SISSA, Italy, 2017. -PhD student in Chemical Sciences, Biophysics of Tropical Diseases, MaxPlanck Tandem Group, University of Antioquia, Colombia - Present

Publicationes

• Ochoa R., et. al Drug search for leishmaniasis: a virtual screening approach by grid computing. Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 30:541-552 (2016).
• Ochoa R., et al. myChEMBL: A virtual machine implementation of open data and cheminformatics tools. Bioinformatics, 30:298-300 (2014).
• ​Ochoa R., et al. Perspectives for the structure-based design of acetylcholinesterase reactivators. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 68:176-183 (2016). 

Estudiante de Maestría: Cristian Alirio Parra.
Background: Bsc Physics UdeA, 2020.
Project: Optical properties of nanosensors and antimalarials.

Estudiante de Maestría: Daniel Sucerquia.
Background: Bsc Physics UdeA, 2019.
Project: Ab-initio metadynamics simulation of nano-biomaterials.

Estudiante de Maestría: Kelly Yohana Muñoz Gomez.
Background: Bsc Physics UdeA, 2020.
Project: Optimization of a peptide design protocol for using non-natural amino acids.

Estudiante de Maestría: Julian David Giraldo Barreto
Background: Bsc Physics UdeA, 2020
Project: Código para el estudio de sistemas macromoleculares usando imágenes cryo-EM  

Estudiante de Maestría: Cristian Camilo Rocha.
Background: Bsc Chemistry, Universidad del Quindío 2017.
Project: Mechanistic study of membrane-pore formation for one new Croatolicidin-derived peptide as therapeutic against Staphylococcus aureus.

Jóvenes Investigadores

David Silva Sanchez
Background: Undergradutate Physics student UdeA
Project: Implementación de datos de microscopía electrónica criogénica en variables colectivas para simulaciones de dinámica molecular con metadinámica

Victor Oviedo
Background: Undergradutate Physics student UdeA
Project: Development of orbital-free multiscale method

Ana Cristina Molina Taborda
Background: Undergraduate Physics student UdeA
Project: Molecular optimization with Machine Learning

Estudiantes: 

• Karen Palacio, MSc 2019
• Sebastian Ortiz, Msc 2020
• Isais Lanz, Postdoc