About me
Dr. Swanson is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Prior to that she was at the University of Chicago for 9 years where she developed multiscale reactive simulation methods to describe proton transport and pH-driven processes in biomolecular systems. She trained with Andy McCammon as a graduate student and Jack Simons as an NIH Ruth Kirstein Postdoctoral Fellow. She is the recipient of an NIH MIRA, NSF CAREER, and, most recently, the Cottrell Scholar Award.
Research in the Swanson Group bridges computational biophysics and theoretical chemistry with the development and application of multiscale simulation methods, including kinetic modeling, to probe medically and environmentally relevant biological processes at the molecular level. Put simply, her group wants to understand how and why fascinating biological systems work the way they do. The group’s most recent foci are electrochemically-driven channels and transporters, protein targeting to lipid droplets, lasso peptide folding, and optimizing bacterial methane conversion to help address near-term warming.
