Guest Speaker: Yu-ming Mindy Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wayne State University

Dr. Yu-ming Mindy Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Wayne State University, leading the Computational Biomedical Physics Group. Her research focuses on using computational modeling to investigate biomolecular recognition, diffusion processes, and membrane-protein interactions, with applications in drug discovery and disease research. By integrating theoretical and classical mechanical models, she has developed multiscale approaches to overcome limitations in molecular dynamics simulations, particularly for studying membrane proteins and lipid metabolism. Her work advances the understanding of ligand binding kinetics, protein-protein interactions, and diffusion in complex biosystems, contributing to collaborative drug design and protein structural modeling efforts.