{"id":190,"date":"2025-07-11T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:28:06","slug":"our-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/our-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TELPS Model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We investigate the concept of <strong>Transmembrane Electrostatically Localized Protons (TELPS)<\/strong> to explain how energy is managed across biological membranes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39219\/2025\/07\/TELPs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39219\/2025\/07\/TELPs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" style=\"width:859px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39219\/2025\/07\/TELPs.jpg 681w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39219\/2025\/07\/TELPs-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39219\/2025\/07\/TELPs-600x128.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Membrane Biophysics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We use molecular dynamics tools (GROMACS, OpenMM) and quantum simulations (CP2K) to model proton and water interactions near lipid bilayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ongoing Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Proton\u2013membrane biophysics modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Membrane compression and dipole field analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horizontal Gene Transfer in Selected Bacteria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TELPS Model We investigate the concept of Transmembrane Electrostatically Localized Protons (TELPS) to explain how energy is managed across biological membranes. Membrane Biophysics We use molecular dynamics tools (GROMACS, OpenMM) and quantum simulations (CP2K) to model proton and water interactions <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/our-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Our Research<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31036,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lee-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}