Group Members
Current members, trainees, and principal investigator information.
The Team
Ilyas Yildirim
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science · Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter
Email: iyildirim@fau.edu · Phone: 561-799-8325
Education: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Northwestern University, and the University of Rochester; PhD and MA in Physics, University of Rochester; BS in Physics, Koç University.
Dr. Yildirim leads the RNA Dynamics Lab with a focus on molecular simulations, RNA force fields, ligand binding, and structure–dynamics relationships in nucleic acids.
Current Members
Niransha Kumarachchi
Ph.D. Student · Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, FAU
Project: RNA Force Fields
Mariam Ibrahim
Ph.D. Student · Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, FAU
Project: Development of a Monte Carlo Simulator for RNA 3D Structure Prediction
Adam Burjan
Undergraduate Student · Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, FAU
Project: Computational methods to optimize template compounds targeting RNA motifs
Benjamin Carver
Undergraduate Student · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
Project: Properties of pre-microRNA molecules in Homo sapiens
Nicholas Ndreca
Undergraduate researcher · FAU