2022 Frontera User Meeting - Khalili-Araghi (IMAGE)
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Physicist Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi of the University of Illinois Chicago researches the flexibility mechanism of tight junctions found at epithelial cells that line and protect organs and blood vessels throughout the body, as well as supporting transport of nutrients, ions and water. The tight junctions are multiprotein complexes in cells that serve as points of contact and control the permeability of ions and small molecules between cells, an essential feature in multicellular organisms. Khalili-Araghi uses molecular dynamics simulations on Frontera to investigate the mechanical properties and morphology of tight junction strands.
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