Yingling to receive ACS COMP Junior Faculty Award

Dr. Yaroslava G. Yingling, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been selected to receive the 2012 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry from the American Chemical Society’s Computers in Chemistry Division (COMP).

Yingling is being recognized for her work on “Tuning DNA Structural Bending with Charged Nanoparticles,” research that has found that by varying the charge on gold nanoparticles, the DNA helix can be decorated, bent or even “unzipped”. This finding has ramifications for gene therapy research and DNA-based electronics.

The OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award helps new faculty members gain visibility within the computers-in-chemistry community. Winners are presented with $1,000 to be able to share their work in the COMP symposia at the 2012 ACS national meeting in Philadelphia.

Yingling received her BS degree in computer science and engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia in 1996. She earned her PhD in materials engineering and high performance computing applications from Pennsylvania State University in 2002.

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