JOHN F. EARGLE

EDUCATION

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD Candidate, Biophysics and Computational Biology		 Champaign, Illinois
Advisor: Prof. Zaida Luthey-Schulten
GPA: 3.95
The University of Texas at Austin
BA Computer Science/Plan II (liberal arts honors)		 Austin, Texas
May 2001
Advisor: Prof. David Hillis
GPA: 3.74
GPA in Computer Science: 3.83


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant, 2003-2007
  • Ulyott Fellowship, 2003
  • National Merit Scholar, 1996-2000
  • Upsilon Pi Epsilon - Computer Science Honors Society
  • Association for Computing Machinery

WORK EXPERIENCE

Luthey-Schulten Group
Research Assistant		 Urbana, Illinois
December 2003-Present

  • Molecular dynamics simulation and analysis of proteins and RNA involved in translation
  • Computational Biology application development

Gutell RNA Laboratory
Volunteer Scientific Programmer		 Austin, Texas
May 01-August 03

  • Computational Biology application development

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2008

  • Computational Chemical Biology

Teaching Assistant University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 2007

  • NSF GK-12 Miniworkshop

Teaching Assistant University of Pittsburgh
November 2006

  • Computational Biophysics Workshop

PUBLICATIONS

  • Eargle J., Black A., Sethi A., Trabuco L., and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
    "Dynamics of Recognition between tRNA and Elongation Factor Tu,"
    JMB, 377, 1382-1405, 2008
  • Roberts E., Eargle J., Wright D., and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
    "MultiSeq: unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis,"
    BMC Bioinformatics, 7, 382, 2006
  • Eargle J. and Luthey-Schulten Z.,
    "Visualizing the dual space of biological molecules,"
    Computational Biology and Chemistry, 30, 219-226, 2006
  • Eargle J., Wright D., Luthey-Schulten Z.,
    "Multiple Alignment of protein structures and sequences for VMD,"
    Bioinformatics, 22, 504-506, 2006

REFERENCES

Available upon request